Boil side dishes recipes with 200 or fewer calories costing less than $1.5 per serving

Garlic Ginger Green Beans

These are an excellent, healthy side dish to any grilled meat. I highly recommend them with the Chinese BBQ chicken recipe below, but honestly…

Chili Sauce

Chili sauce is one answer to that bumper tomato harvest. The perky piquant sauce can compliment many classic recipes like meatballs, meatloaf,…

Parsley Potatoes

These fork-tender and flavorful potatoes make an easy yet elegant accompaniment to any main entree

Easy Persian Rice in a Rice Cooker

Admittedly, this doesn't capture the crunch outside of the normal method of making persian rice. But if you…

Bavarian Semmelknoedel/Bread Dumplings

This is a very traditional bread dumpling that is served in restaurants in Austria and Bavaria. This is a…

Japanese Spinach Salad, Ohitashi

This is a delicious way to consume large quantities of one of the healthiest foods on the planet...spinach! I…

Tabbouleh Salad

A refreshing, low calorie, garlicky, tasty bulgur salad.

In-a-Pinch Cranberry Sauce made from Dried Cranberries

I serve turkey year round but forget to keep canned cranberry sauce on hand; even when I do it's hard to use up…

Plum Pineapple Jam

I devised this recipe when I wanted a variation of plum jam and thought why not use canned crushed pineapple? The result was beautiful jewel-tone…

mashed potatoes

These are special, and go well with the pan gravy recipe I am posting. Using Yukon Gold potatoes, you can either leave all the skins on, or, as I…

Beans with Nutmeg

Mashed Potatoes and Cabbage (Colcannon)

A perfect way to boost nutrition in mashed potatoes, this is a favorite Irish side dish but can certainly…

Garlic Herbed Sweet Potatoes

TRY THIS AT EASTER - it is a signature dish! It is sweet and savory with fresh herbs, dairy products and chicken broth. This is a North…

Creamy Mashed Potatoes

Delicious, easy, creamy mashed potatoes.