What To Serve With Shrimp And Grits?

Chrissie Smuts
Coastal Cooking
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Shrimp and grits are a popular dish believed to have originated in Charleston, South Carolina. You can eat this delicious dish for breakfast, lunch, or supper. If you’re planning on making shrimp and grits, you’re probably wondering what dishes you can serve with it.

What to serve with shrimp and grits:

  1. Sweet Potato Fries
  2. Green Salad
  3. Asparagus
  4. Fried Okra
  5. Bread
  6. Buttermilk Biscuits
  7. Broccoli and Cauliflower
  8. Pasta Salad
  9. Potatoes
  10. Creamed Spinach

Shrimp and grits can be paired with many side dishes for a delicious meal. Keep reading for ten great side dishes to serve with shrimp and grits.

What Can You Serve With Shrimp and Grits?

What’s great about shrimp and grits is that it goes with a lot of great dishes. Keep it simple with potato wedges, garlic bread, or a salad, or pair it with fried okra, buttermilk biscuits, spinach, and corn!

1. Sweet Potato Fries

Sweet potato fries go well with meat and seafood. It’s also a healthier option than potato fries. This side dish tastes great if you put it in the oven. Drizzle it with a bit of olive oil, throw on some garlic powder, salt, pepper, and paprika, spread it out on an oven dish, and bake them for around 25 minutes. Make sure to flip them halfway. Serve hot with shrimp and grits for lunch or supper.

2. Green Salad

You can’t go wrong with a plain old green salad. It goes with literally any dish, and you can prepare it how you want. Bring some color to your shrimp and grits by making a salad consisting of lettuce, tomatoes, feta cheese, cucumber, avocado salt, pepper, and salad dressing.

A green salad makes a great side dish if you’re looking to eat something light with your shrimp and grits for lunch or dinner.

3. Asparagus

Not everyone loves asparagus. It almost tastes like mushrooms and broccoli. But asparagus can make a great side dish for shrimp and grits if you like the taste. The best way to have asparagus is to roast it in the oven or sauté it in a pan. Then, add some salt, pepper, and garlic, and you’ll have a delicious side dish complementing your shrimp and grits.

4. Fried Okra

Okra is a sweet green vegetable that goes great with shrimp and grits. It is filled with antioxidants, fiber, minerals, and vitamins. Thus, it’s a great option if you’re looking to pair your main dish with a healthy side vegetable.

Fried okra with shrimp and grits make a great combo, with the fried okra giving you something crispy on the side. You can prepare fried okra by thinly slicing it and frying it in oil. After that, transfer it to some paper towels and sprinkle it with whatever spices you want!

5. Bread

You can never go wrong with plain old soft and warm bread as a side meal, whether it be for breakfast, lunch, or supper. Garlic bread is even better! The garlic will complement your shrimp and grits and leave you satiated. Of course, cornbread is also a good option.

6. Buttermilk Biscuits

Shrimp and grits served with buttermilk biscuits can make for a delicious brunch. You can make the buttermilk biscuits from scratch if you’d like. This way, you’ll know it will taste fresh and melt in your mouth.

It takes a bit of time, but this recipe from Sally’s Baking Addiction will keep you making more ever so frequently. All you need is two and a half to three cups of flour, two teaspoons of honey, half a cup of butter, 270 milliliters of buttermilk, some salt, and two tablespoons of baking powder. The butter and buttermilk must be cold. Then, all you need to do is mix the dry ingredients; add the butter; pour the buttermilk and honey in the middle, and fold it all together.

You will then put flour on your hands and roll and flatten the dough on a surface. Next, flatten the dough until it’s three-quarters thick, use a cutter to cut biscuits of about two-and-a-half inches, and place it in the oven for 20 minutes.

7. Broccoli and Cauliflower

Vegetables are always a good side dish if you need help deciding what to serve with your main dish. For example, mix broccoli and cauliflower and steam or roast it. Roasted vegetables go great with shrimp and grits! Drizzle oil on the veggies, pop them in the oven until the edges are crispy, and season them with salt, pepper, lemon, and chili flakes.

8. Pasta Salad

While pasta can be regarded as a main meal, nothing stops you from making it with your shrimp and grits as a side salad. You can add anything you want to the salad. Just boil the pasta, pop it in the fridge until it’s cold, and add some mayonnaise, cheese cubes, tomatoes, cucumbers, and mixed herbs. Remember to keep it refrigerated.

9. Potatoes

You can never go wrong with potatoes. It is an easy and cheap side dish you can make and will go deliciously with your shrimp and grits. You can mash it by boiling the potatoes until soft, mashing it with a fork, adding a bit of butter, salt, and milk, and serving it hot.

You can also make potato wedges by slicing the potatoes and pan-frying them until it’s golden brown. Sprinkle with salt, garlic powder, and parsley for a crisp, mouth-watering side dish.

10. Spinach and Corn

Why not try spinach and corn with your shrimp and grits for a healthy side dish? Pour a bit of oil into your skillet, chop some garlic and add it to the pan. After about a minute of cooking the garlic, add the corn and cook it through. Add the spinach, cook it for about a minute or two, and combine it with the shrimp.

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Conclusion

There are tons of food you can serve with shrimp and grits. If you want to keep it simple and quick, you can’t go wrong with bread, green salad, or vegetables. But it also goes well with a refreshing pasta salad or a healthy spinach dish. So give one of these above-listed side dishes a try the next time you’re unsure what to serve with your shrimp and grits.

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