What To Serve With Prime Rib
What To Serve With Prime Rib! While prime rib in and of itself is fantastic, sometimes side dishes complete the prime rib dinner! This is often our Christmas dinner but really it works for special occasions or holiday meals in your life! With the holidays right around the corner, a Prime Rib dinner can be a great replacement or compliment to an Easter Ham Dinner or Chritmas ham.
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Now I am a massive fan of Smoked Prime Rib, and I am always amazed at how amazing it turns out. The leftovers are the biggest perk of making Prime Rib at home vs. the restaurant. Perfectly cooked prime rib is not as hard as you may think, and simple side dishes can make the perfect prime rib sides.
What Is Prime Rib?
Most people assume that all Prime Ribs are made equal, but they aren’t. Almost everyone I know confuses a Prime Rib and Rib-eye. I can’t pick a favorite; they are both fantastic.
Rib roast vs prime rib what is the difference? Most Prime Ribs are made out of a Rib Roast. You can buy these boneless or as a bone-in. I love the bone-in for more flavor and the bones to make broth. Christmas is a good time for many grocery stores will have their roasts on sale to stock up and freeze a couple. The Rib Roasts are marbled with fat as well, making them juicy and tender as well. You can also find them at Snake River Farms with marbling and high-quality meat!
Prime Rib Recipes
There is no right or wrong way to make a prime rib. I gravitate towards Smoked Prime rib, but you can also make it oven-roasted in a roasting pan, in an electric roaster, or even slow-cooked in a crockpot. No matter how you cook it, low and slow will allow for a juicy prime rib. Most Prime Rib Roast is made by rubbing with olive oil and seasonings and can be served with horseradish sauce or au jus.
AT WHAT TEMPERATURE IS A PRIME RIB DONE?
Use the time guidelines above for when to start checking the temperature of your meat. Knowing your preference for rareness will help you know what internal temperature to use a digital meat thermometer to cook the meat to. The ends of the prime rib roast will be more done, so take the temperature towards the middle of your roast.
- Rare is at 120 to 125 degrees F. The center will be bright red, with a pinkish color toward the exterior portion.
- Medium Rare is at 130 to 135 degrees F. The center is very pink and will be slightly brown toward the exterior portion.
- Next, the Medium is at 140 to 145 degrees F. The center is light pink, and the outer portion is brown.
- Medium Well is at 150 to 155 degrees F. The center is not pink and is browner all the way around.
- Well Done is at 160 degrees F. and above, is not pink, and will be a darker brown.
Potato recipes
I am very much a meat and potatoes guy, but there is something about steak and potatoes. A side dish of potatoes will always be one of my favorite sides for prime rib, but there are also other perfect side dishes.
Smoked Baked Potatoes– Smoke alongside the prime rib, but loaded mashed potatoes are always a good side dish.
Smoked Loaded Cheesy Potatoes– Add in bacon and everything that goes into a loaded potato and smoke it in a casserole dish! This is perfect for dipping your meat into and will smoke alongside a prime rib!.
Loaded Mashed Potatoes– These are so easy to whip up and full of flavor; they also can be thrown into the oven to make loaded mashed potato casserole!
Grilled Twice-Baked Potatoes– Oven bake or smoke-baked large baking potatoes. Slice in half and remove the insides to make loaded mashed potatoes. Restuff your potato skins, top with cheese, and throw on the grill.
Cheesy Potatoes– Potatoes, bacon, sour cream, mayo, and all the cheese were amazing with smoke flavor!
Garlic Mashed Potatoes-Creamy garlic mashed potatoes! Easy but fluffy potatoes infused with garlic. Perfect for weeknight dinners or holiday dinners!
Classic Holiday Side Dishes
Classic holiday side dishes make delicious prime rib side dishes and a great choice. The most popular sides with guests seem to be the classics everyone knows and loves.
How To Make Smoked Deviled Eggs– Use smoked hard-boiled eggs to make this pellet grill smoked dish for your holiday dinner.
Classic Smoked Green Bean Casserole– This is a side dish made with every holiday dinner, but it is also tasty with a T-Bone or Ribeye Steak! This is easy to throw together using canned green beans.
Creamy Smoked Macaroni And Cheese– Enough said! Melt cheese with the flavor of smoke to cover your pasta! The heavy cream helps to make this dish even creamier.
Classic Sweet Potato Casserole Smoked– A butter pecan brown sugar topping combines smoking sweet potatoes and the flavor of the sweet potato casserole. This frees up oven space and adds fantastic flavor!
Smoked Side Dishes
Now to go with smoked prime, smoked rich smoked side dishes make sense right? These maybe not be traditional side dishes, but they go well with prime rib.
Smoked Deviled Egg Macaroni Salad– This is a tasty pasta salad using vegetables and smoked eggs! They add a smoke flavor to the macaroni salad!
Smoked Loaded Baked Beans– This is the ultimate side dish or dish to take to a tailgating party. Allow this to slow smoke on your smoke in a cast iron dutch oven. Add in a bit more bacon grease for more flavor.
Smoked Cream Cheese– Use a brick of cream cheese and seasoning to make this easy dip or add flavor to another dish.
Creamy Smoked Macaroni And Cheese– Enough said! Melt cheese with the flavor of smoke to cover your pasta! The heavy cream helps to make this dish even creamier.
Vegetable Side Dishes
Oven-roasted or grilled and made with essential everyday ingredients and seasonings are often great for a holiday dinner. They don’t require much prep work, and an easy side dish can relieve some of the stress of throwing the meal together.
Grilled Corn on the Cob – While this is seen as a summer side dish staple, it also goes well for a holiday dinner.
Cheesy Grilled Asparagus– Make a foil packet to make this grilled asparagus topped with melted parmesan cheese!
Oven Roasted Acorn Squash– Use brown sugar, maple syrup, and butter to make this great side dish! You can also sprinkle with some cinnamon if you want to.
Bacon Wrapped Asparagus– You can make this in the air fryer or inside the oven alongside the pot pie. Asparagus is one of those side dishes that can go with almost anything, and bacon takes it to the next level.
Bread
Along with meat and potatoes, is it a holiday dinner meal if there isn’t bread? As the years have gone on, I have expanded my bread tests to include other varieties than just basic dinner rolls.
Yorkshire Pudding– This one surprised me, but a friend swears it pairs perfectly with Prime Rib. After reading about them, I can see why this isn’t pudding like I thought. It is amazing light bread of British origin! If you didn’t know, they are called popovers in the United States.
Honey Wheat Dinner Rolls– These Honey Wheat Dinner Rolls are the perfect side to just about any meal. They’re light, fluffy, and full of flavor. How can you resist a roll served warm, right out of the oven? Best served with cinnamon butter!
Sourdough Bread-Don’t toss that sourdough discard! You can make deliciously crusty, light, and flavorful French bread with a sourdough starter, simple ingredients, and this easy sourdough bread recipe.
Leftover Smoked Prime Rib Recipes
Smoked meat is the best next-day food, either as is or in a recipe. I love to use leftover prime rib to make food for the rest of the week following a holiday. My latest favorite has been Blackstone Prime Rib Breakfast hash! Check out my Best Leftover Prime Rib Recipes.
Pellet Smoker Recipes To check out
Looking for more smoker recipes?? Be sure to check out Smoker Recipes. The post contains smoker recipes from ham to macaroni and cheese to Prime Rib! See it -> here.
- Dutch Oven In The Smoker Recipes
- Special Occasion And Holiday Recipes
- Smoked Side Dishes
- Smoked Deli Salads
