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Wondering what to serve with your homemade Ravioli? Browse my collection of the best side dishes to serve with your delightful pasta pockets.
From homemade bread, buns, and garlic toast to roasted vegetables or a light spring salad, these side dishes will pair perfectly with your fresh ravioli.
When I’m making dinner and planning on what side dishes to serve with my ravioli, I’ll usually be inspired by the type of ravioli I’m making.
And of course, bread fits every occasion, so let’s start with that!
9 Bread Recipes
One of the most popular ravioli side dishes is bread. A thick slice of crusty bread is a good choice with ravioli because you can use it to soak up soak up a sauce.
Whether you’re looking for a soft fluffy bun to mop up sauce or a toasty garlic bread to compliment the flavors in your ravioli, this list of bread recipes will have something that is just right.
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Easy Focaccia Bread
Try this quick and easy focaccia bread for tasty, one hour bread that's crispy on the outside and soft and pillowy on the inside.
Sourdough garlic bread and garlic toast are scrumptious and simple dishes to complement pasta. With their flavorful combination of sourdough and garlic, they make for a delightful accompaniment.
Melty cheese, butter, and garlic on a fresh sourdough or french loaf. Cut into the loaf of bread only halfway and then stuff it with cheese and bake until the cheese is piping hot and bubbly. Cheesy Pull Apart Garlic Bread is perfect for an appetizer or as a side for a salad and takes only half an hour to make.
Soft swirled bread with layers of warm dough, melty cheese, and spicy pickled jalapeños. This bread is easy to make, requires simple ingredients but the presentation is so beautiful.
These Homemade Air Buns are super soft, tender, and nearly melt in your mouth! They are the perfect accompaniment for soups and stews to soak up that yummy sauce!
Lighter brioche buns with only one rise time if you prefer. This is a quick and easy homemade bread recipe, with a rewarding fluffy brioche bun and only 15 minutes baking time. Add some seeds or herbs on top to change it up!
A refreshing salad can be the perfect side dish for ravioli because it’ll give you contrasting textures and flavors, not to mention adding some extra vegetables on the side.
Try a Rainbow Salad with its juicy tomatoes, or an Italian House Salad with caesar salad vibes of crisp romaine lettuce and savory Parmesan cheese.
Or if you’re making my Sweet Potato Ravioli with the cream sauce, mix up my Spinach and Arugula salad on the side – the fall flavors will compliment the sweet and savory flavors of the ravioli. This salad is topped with feta cheese and seeds and a dressing made with olive oil, balsamic vinegar, and thyme.
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Spinach Salad with Apples, Feta, Pecans
This spinach salad is great for lunch or dinner with spinach, romaine lettuce, peppery arugula, sweet apples, tangy feta cheese, and crunchy pecans. Top with Honey Balsamic Dressing.
This crisp green Italian salad is the perfect pairing for your pasta dinner! Dressed with onions, artichokes, Parmesan cheese and a simple red wine vinaigrette.
Roasted vegetables are a great dish to serve with many different types of ravioli. Cheesy ravioli in a brown butter sauce would pair perfectly with earthy, simple air air-fried Brussels sprouts.
Sheet pan roasted vegetables make it super easy to get extra nutrition on the side of a pasta dish – just mix them up and toss them in the oven.
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Roasted Zucchini
Experience the simple elegance of garden-fresh produce with this Roasted Zucchini Recipe. Highlighting the zucchini's natural flavors, this dish turns a humble vegetable into a delectable side perfect for any meal.
This roasted broccoli rabe, also known as rapini, is a quick and delicious side dish to change up your weeknight dinners. Toss with red pepper flakes and freshly squeezed orange juice for a surprisingly delightful bite.
Need an easy and delicious Thanksgiving side dish? These Roasted Green Beans only take 15 minutes in the oven and 5 simple ingredients. Toast slivered almonds and then toss them with roasted fresh green beans, olive oil, salt and pepper, lemon juice and parmesan cheese.
Crispy fried mushrooms with a spiced batter and panko crumb breading and a juicy, chewy inside. These fried mushrooms take under half an hour to make and are great on their own, as part of a grain bowl or in a sandwich or wrap.
Easy Sheet Pan Roasted Vegetable recipe with perfectly cooked potatoes, sweet potatoes, broccoli, bell pepper, onions and roasted garlic. Use my all-purpose seasoning or your favorite spice mix for a simple flavorful vegetable dish that's easy and healthy.
If you’re looking to serve the ravioli as an addition to a main dish, these recipes are a great option to serve with a side of pasta.
Keep it vegetarian with a butternut squash burger or make one of these flavorful chicken recipes.
Bread some chicken, make my dill chicken with its creamy delicious sauce, or try a stuffed chicken breast. Lasagna stuffed chicken would be great with cheese ravioli in tomato sauce.
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Butternut Squash Burgers
The squash patties are made with roasted butternut squash, white beans, oats, and a variety of spices for a flavorful veggie burger with a great texture – not mushy!
A One-Pan dish in less than 30-minutes, perfect with a side of rice or mashed potatoes and some greens. Make the chicken and the sauce in the same pan for an easy, flavorful dinner.
Chicken breast, stuffed with ricotta, spinach and tomato sauce like lasagna, and coated with a crispy pecan meal crust, tomato sauce and melted mozzarella cheese like chicken Parmesan.
Hi, I'm Jacqueline Piper, the author of PiperCooks. I am a food blogger with a focus on easy, delicious, and (mostly) healthy recipes. I like using fresh ingredients for simple family recipes and I love cooking + sharing recipes to help you put healthy, homemade dinners on your table.
