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Best Side Dishes for Fried Chicken

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You can’t beat a good chicken dinner, but what will you have on the side? Read on to see some of my favorite side dishes for fried chicken!

Fried chicken is twice as good when it's paired with the best side dishes! Find six perfect recipe ideas to make with your next chicken dinner.

We live a few blocks from a little grocery store. When you walk within a block of the store around lunch or dinner time, you can hardly resist stopping in. Why? Because the scrumptious aroma of fresh fried chicken permeates the air! OMG. Fried chicken smells SO GOOD! My boys always beg me to buy it!

If you’re a regular at The Weary Chef, you know that I’m pretty wimpy when it comes to deep frying foods. Like, I don’t do it, ever. A pot of hot oil sounds like a medical emergency or messy disaster just waiting to happen. I can make a mean pan fried chicken or baked “fried” chicken, but when it comes to the real thing, I let the experts at the grocery store take care of it ;)

Grab yo' self some Safeway Signature Fried Chicken and find a perfect side dish recipe to go with it!

Even if you buy pre-cooked chicken, you can still make it a homemade meal with the side dishes! I put together a list of 10 of my favorite recipes to pair with crispy, delicious fried chicken. Check these out!

Deviled Egg Potato Salad by The Weary Chef

Enjoy deviled egg potato salad as a side at your next BBQ!

Southern Biscuits by Life, Love, and Good Food

Southern Biscuits by Life, Love, and Good Food

Classic Macaroni Salad by Love Bakes Good Cakes

Classic Macaroni Salad by Love Bakes Good Cakes

Easy Creamy Mac and Cheese by The Weary Chef

Creamy Easy Mac and Cheese

Copycat KFC Coleslaw by Little Dairy on the Prairie

Copycat KFC Coleslaw by Little Dairy on the Prairie

Duke’s Mayonnaise Mashed Potatoes by Spicy Southern Kitchen

Duke's Mayonnaise Mashed Potatoes by Spicy Southern Kitchen

Did I leave out any of your favorite fried chicken sides? Tell me in the comments below!

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  1. Other than the repugnant rage of a comment on the top, I would need to fully agree that these all look so yummy and perfect for fried chicken. If a certain someone is such a pro regarding sides, I’m not sure why she had to go searching. Plus, not everyone looking for chicken sides is US American and would welcome these already perfect classic pairings as suggestions…because why recreate perfection…

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  2. Either your children have giant hands or those are pigeon legs. You have the mac salad plated with a hot dog. In an article about fried chicken side dishes. 2 are potato dishes and 2 macaroni. Not much variety there. Disappointing. I came for help and got a commercial for Safeway.

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    • Hi, Alyssa. This is surely one of the rudest comments I’ve ever received, and it’s really uncalled for. I put together a list of classic side dishes for fried chicken. I’m not sure what kind of innovation you were looking for, but I hope you find it elsewhere.

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    • My first time here and everything looks delicious. I was surprised to see such a vitriolic comment and it has no place here or on anyone’s blog

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  3. I am such a sucker for fried chicken …. it is one of my guilty pleasures!! Like you, I don’t like the mess and dealing with the grease – this definitely looks like the way to go and the perfect way to get my fried chicken fix! You can bet I’ll be watching for those Friday specials, too!! :D Thanks so much for including my potato salad with the other yummy side dishes!!

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  6. I love the looks of all these side dishes so much. A fried chicken dinner with all the sides is like one of the best things in the entire world!!!

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  8. I swear I can smell fried chicken from a mile away, and when I get a whiff of it, I just have to have some! This fried chicken looks so yummy and the sides would take it over the top!

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  10. Very tempting indeed! I am always spying the sides at Safeway. Something a little extra for my husband and he seems very happy about ti.

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