Side Items To Accompany Your Main Dishes

A main course is never complete without side items like salad, baked beans, coleslaw, taco meat, buffalo chicken etc. A wide variety of savory side dishes is served with main food course in different parts of the world. Side items complement your main dishes and add to the overall eating experience. In the United States, a regular meat-based dish comes with a vegetable side item like salad or a starch side dish like pastas, potatoes and bread. Nowadays, frozen side items are also quite popular with the foodies, as they are easily available and save your cooking time. Here are some of the most used side items to accompany your main dishes.

• Frozen salads: Frozen salads are the most preferred side dish that all Americans like to eat. They eat this nutritious side food with almost any main meal that includes vegetarian or non-vegetarian dishes. The main ingredients of frozen fruit salads are cream cheese, mayonnaise or salad dressing, cocktail of various fruits like strawberry, banana, apple etc., miniature marshmallows, whipping cream, lettuce etc. Whereas, a frozen vegetable salad includes vegetable like spinach, peas, cabbage, pickled jalapenos etc. instead of fruits. It may however consist of certain other ingredients as well. Besides saving time, these ready to eat frozen salads are also healthy as they provide you with the nutritious benefits of the fruits and vegetables contained in them.
• Coleslaw: Coleslaw is another popular side dish with Americans, which is commonly referred to as ‘slaw’ in some American linguistics. It is a salad that mainly consists of shredded raw cabbage and dressed with mayonnaise, vinegar, sour cream. Other shredded fruits and vegetables such as apples, carrot, radish etc. in raw form may also be included in this side dish. Various spices like pepper, horseradish seeds are also added to enhance the flavor. Foods such as fried chicken and barbecued meats are often eaten with this side dish. It is sometimes used as filler in sandwiches, burgers and hot dogs. Ready to eat frozen coleslaw is a famous side dish in U.S markets. 
• Baked beans: Despite the name, baked beans, is another famous side dish that is actually stewed in sauce. The most commercial frozen baked beans are made from haricot beans in a sauce prepared in tomato and brown sugar. This popular American side dish is served with chips, waffles and meats like pork and chicken. The consumption of baked beans lower the cholesterol levels in an individual and is therefore suitable for people suffering with high cholesterol problems. 

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