What to Serve with Scallops

Published: Jan 23, 2022 · Modified: Feb 2, 2023 by Karin and Ken · This post may contain affiliate links. Leave a Comment

Scallops are one of the most iconic shellfish. Almost everyone has had them in one form or another. They're so tender and sweet with that classic shellfish flavor. We know we love scallops, but the question becomes what to serve with scallops? If you've been wondering, then you're in luck. I have a ton of recipes that pair perfectly with this delicious seafood treat.

I've been making scallops for years. My family loves seafood, and scallops have always been one of their favorites. I started making scallops when I was in my twenties, and I kept making them after I got married and had my son.

Why You Should Serve Sides with this Dish

Over the years, I've served them up in all kinds of ways, and my husband and son have never turned them away. Two of our favorite variations are bacon-wrapped scallops and seafood pot pie with scallops. I've learned that scallops have a wonderful flavor that pairs well with all kinds of dishes, and I've put together a list of them for you today.

What to Serve with Scallops

Bacon Wrapped Cheese Biscuits

These Bacon Wrapped Cheese Biscuits are really good. I hate how awesome they taste. Garlic butter, melted cheese and bacon? The perfect combination.

Garlic butter and melted cheese infuse these biscuits wrapped with crispy bacon.

Cream Cheese Biscuits

Are you looking for perfectly flakey biscuits that just scream the holiday season? You’re going to be head over heels for these simple Cream Cheese Biscuits.

These cream chees biscuits owe their tender, flaky texture to the addition of cream cheese.

Oven Baked Sliced Potato (aka Potato Blossom)

This Easy Oven Baked Sliced Potato (aka Potato Blossom) recipe shows how to bake the best crispy oven roasted potatoes with cheese and more!

Potato Blossom

These potato blossoms are fully loaded with cheese, bacon, and more.

Breadsticks 6 Ways

Breadsticks 6 Ways with Pillsbury pizza dough makes copycat breadsticks or cheese sticks from Pizza Hut, Olive Garden and garlic pizza bread.

Breadsticks are always a great option for a side, and you can make these in 6 different ways.

Italian Herbs and Cheese Bread

Every time we stop at a Subway for a snack or meal I ALWAYS choose their Italian herbs and cheese bread. The inside of the sandwich often changes, but the bun remains the same. Here's why.

A long Italian Herbs and Cheese Bread bun cut in half filled with sandwich meat, lettuce and cheese.

Perfect for sandwiches or a side, this bread is loaded with cheese and Italian herbs.

Easy Cabbage and Vegetables

Easy Cabbage and Vegetables is the perfect blend of cabbage, carrots, potato and more! This easy technique can be used with any vegetables you have on hand!

Easy Cabbage and Vegetables

This cabbage and vegetable blend is full of carrots, potatoes, and more.

Easy Cheesy Potato Casserole

This sliced potato casserole is made with layers of real potatoes, bacon, onions, and cheese for the best comfort food ever! Perfect for any occasion, it's one recipe you'll keep coming back to again and again.

Easy Cheesy Potato Casserole with Sliced Potatoes on the table.

The ultimate comfort food, this potato casserole is loaded with bacon, cheese, and more.

Cheesecake Factory’s Brown Bread

Cheesecake Factory Brown Bread is a tasty bread that goes well with any main dish. Spread a little honey butter over a slice and it just might become a family favorite side.

A sliced loaf with butter on cutting board.

This hearty brown bread is the perfect side to serve with scallops.

Cheesy Green Giant Broccoli Tot Bites

Cheesy Green Giant Broccoli Tot Bites are a tasty, healthy vegetable snack or side dish recipe. Our Green Giant Broccoli Tots Copycat is low carb and Keto friendly too!

Easy Cheesy Broccoli Tots

These crunchy, low-carb broccoli tot bites are always a hit, and they're so easy to make.

Italian Cheese Bread (Quick Bread Recipe)

This Italian Cheese Bread recipe is the Best Bread for Grilled Cheese and tastes similar to Cheddar Bay Biscuits from Red Lobster but in loaf form. It is a quick bread recipe and the perfect addition to any meal. Just wait until you try it.

This bread is loaded with the flavor of cheddar cheese. It tastes just like Red Lobster Cheddar Bay Biscuits.

Easy Curried Carrots

Easy Curried Carrots is a carrot curry side dish that's a perfect blend of flavors with the right amount of sweet. This curry roasted carrots recipe is a keeper!

Sweet and savory in equal measure, these carrots are a delicious, healthy side.

Air Fryer Parmesan Green Beans

Green beans are a classic side but these air fryer parmesan green beans are so full of flavor, they beat classic by a long shot! These air fryer green beans are crispy on the outside, tender on the inside, and full of flavor.

Air Fryer Parmesan Green Beans on a white plate.

These green beans are loaded with garlic and parmesan and cooked to perfection in the air fryer.

The Ultimate Volcano Potato

The Ultimate Volcano Potato needs to be on every potato lovers bucket list! With baked potato toppings like these, it's a flavor explosion in every bite!

Close up side shot of Finished potatoes with barbecue sauce sour cream mixture drizzled on top and down sides.

These volcano potatoes explode with bacon, cheese, sour cream, and more in every bite.

Sweet Ranch Glazed Carrots

Sweet Ranch Glazed Carrots are a fabulous change from plain old carrots. They take only minutes to prepare and the taste is scrumptious. A must try!

Sweet Ranch Glazed Carrots

These glazed carrots are so sweet and delicious. They're the perfect easy side.

Easy Sauteed Spinach and Carrots

Healthy Sauteed Spinach and Carrots is full of flavor. This sauteed or fried spinach and mushroom recipe can also include onions, garlic, tomatoes and more!

Plate of sauteed spinach and carrots on the table.

Packing a ton of flavor and health benefits, these sauteed spinach and carrots are healthy and delicious.

Sweet Onion Sage Bread Recipe

This sweet onion sage bread recipe has a flavor reminiscent of stuffing. It's a savory bread full of flavor, and it's so easy to make!

This bread tastes almost like a loaf of stuffing and is perfect with seafood, poultry, pork, and beef.

Fabulous Green Bean Stir-Fry

Our Fabulous Green Bean Stir-Fry is full of green beans, carrots, sugar snap peas and onions combined in a light, flavorful sauce! Perfect for any occasion!

Fabulous Green Bean Stir-Fry

This delicious side is a veggie feast that's so full of flavor.

Green Beans with Bacon and Brown Sugar

Warning: these green beans can be addictive! Made with bacon, brown sugar, onion, garlic, soy sauce and simmered in broth for hours, you can easily see why.

Bacon and brown sugar come together to make a sweet and savory green bean dish everyone loves.

Skillet Roasted Broccoli

This Skillet Roasted Broccoli recipe is so easy to prepare, totally delicious and is a definite keeper! The technique is absolutely brilliant!

Skillet Roasted Broccoli

Easy and healthy, skillet roasted broccoli has it all.

Easy Roasted Carrots, Potatoes, and Onions

Roasted Carrots, Potatoes, and Onions is a time-saving, weeknight meal option that's absolutely delicious! This simple side dish goes well with a variety of proteins including chicken, beef, or fish, giving you so much flexibility. Toss in lemon juice, olive oil, garlic and herbs, and you've got a side dish that's a cut above the rest!

Roasted carrots and potatoes in a bowl with green herbs on top.

This classic vegetable pair is roasted with lemon juice, garlic, and herbs.

Homemade Soft Fluffy Dinner Rolls

These Homemade Soft Fluffy Dinner Rolls are my grandma's yeast or crusty bread roll recipe, and the best super soft, light, dinner rolls ever!

Homemade Soft Fluffy Dinner Rolls

Fluffy dinner rolls served with butter are a classic side with any meal.

Cream Cheese Corn Casserole with Bacon and Ham

Cream Cheese Corn Casserole is a filling and decadent side dish made with cheese, ham, and bacon. This savory, cheesy corn casserole recipe is loaded with flavor, and is a popular holiday side dish that can be enjoyed anytime.

Creamy and full of bacon, ham, and cheese, this cream cheese corn casserole is a sure winner.

Baked Garlic Butter Carrots

Garlic Butter Carrots are easy and delicious, roasted at 350 degrees, cut or sliced in your favorite shape or using baby carrots, this dish doesn't disappoint.

A white bowl with a serving of garlic butter carrots in it.

Take your carrots to the next level with a little butter and garlic.

Smoked Green Beans

Smoked Green Beans are buttery, garlicky, and full of smoky flavor. This homemade green beans recipe has a ring of familiarity to it, but takes the taste of green beans to a whole new level!

Take traditional green beans and give them a smoky, delicious twist.

Air Fryer Corn on the Cob

Air fried corn on the cob is a simple and fast way to cook this summer favorite. So tasty, this great side dish is ideal for grill nights or any night of the week

Cooked in the air fryer, this corn on the cob is perfectly cooked - firm on the outside and exploding with flavor on the inside.

Easy Cheesy Scalloped Potatoes

These Cheesy Scalloped Potatoes are a simple dish with sliced potatoes, onions and cheese baked in the most flavorful, creamy cheese sauce ever! It's perfect for family dinners but also a holiday favorite.

A bowl of easy cheesy scalloped potatoes stacked in another bowl with a fork lifting up a potato slice.

Onions, cheese, and potatoes are baked to perfection in a creamy sauce.

Slow Cooker Scalloped Alfredo Potatoes and Cauliflower

Slow Cooker Scalloped Alfredo Potatoes and Cauliflower is hearty and delicious. A great way to hide cauliflower and kale or spinach, it's the perfect potato side dish!

These potatoes and cauliflower florets are hearty and delicious.

Cheesy Mashed Potato Casserole

This is by far the BEST Loaded Mashed Potato Casserole! Creamy mashed potatoes combine with sour cream, butter and cheese to make the base of the dish and then add on plenty of toppings. It's the perfect potato casserole for holidays, lazy weekends, or any time you need an easy, yet delicious potato side dish.

A spoonful of loaded mashed potato casserole up over a plate with more.

We put everything but the kitchen sink into this cheesy potato casserole.

Air Fryer Hasselback Zucchinis

Air Fryer Hasselback Zucchini is an easy side dish to go with your dinner. Not only are these air fried zucchini tasty they are also keto!

These cheesy, air-fried zucchini are so easy and so delicious.

Mom’s Zucchini Casserole

Mom’s Best Zucchini Casserole recipe is a super easy, old fashioned, vegetable casserole with sour cream, stuffing mix, shredded carrots and so much more!

Mom’s Zucchini Casserole

Zucchini, carrots, sour cream, stuffing mix, and more create a creamy, delicious casserole.

Scalloped Corn Casserole

This creamy scalloped corn casserole with a buttery Ritz cracker topping requires just a few ingredients and comes together quickly. The savory, versatile corn side dish goes well with holiday dinners, and alongside practically any meal. It's a homey casserole that everyone will love.

Creamy and cheesy, scalloped corn is absolutely delicious with almost any side.

Creole Smoked Potato Salad

This creole smoked potato salad may look like the classic, but don't let it fool you. Loaded with delicious creole flavors and a healthy dose of smoke, this is one potato salad recipe you'll want to make again and again!

Take traditional potato salad and then pop it in the smoker to create a delicious twist on a classic.

Old-Fashioned Cucumbers and Onions in Vinegar

When it comes to making cucumber salad, my gran knew what she was doing. She taught me all about making old-fashioned cucumbers and onions in vinegar. That's why I lovingly sometimes call this dish, Grandma's Best Cucumber Salad. It's made with crispy slices of cucumber and onion in a simple dill vinegar dressing!

Cucumber and onion salad in vinegar.

Whether you make it light or creamy, these two cucumber salads are prefect with all kinds of main dishes.

Easy Stuffing Zucchini Casserole

Our favorite stuffing zucchini casserole will be your favorite, too! This simple vegetable casserole is loaded with flavorful ingredients yet easy enough to cook for weeknights or an easy holiday side dish.

A plate of stuffing zucchini casserole on the table with a napkin and casserole dish in the background.

Another delicious zucchini casserole, this hearty side is loaded with flavor.

Broccoli Crunch Salad

This Broccoli Crunch Salad is full of crispy broccoli florets, sweet pears, raisins, onion, crunchy nuts, cheese, and bacon! It's an explosion of flavors and texture. It requires no cooking and goes together in just a few minutes and makes a tasty side for all your picnic, cookout, and potluck needs.

A white bowl filled with Amish broccoli salad with a serving spoon.

Sweet and savory, this delicious broccoli salad is the perfect side.

Old-Fashioned Zucchini Squash Casserole

My Granny's old-fashioned zucchini squash casserole was a recipe she relied on to use up squash, carrots, and other veggies from her garden. It's so easy to make and is perfect for family dinners or holidays!

A serving of old-fashioned zucchini casserole on a plate.

Full of garden-fresh ingredients, this zucchini casserole has everyone begging for me.

Take Scallops to the Next Level

Scallops are so delicious, and however you prepare them, it's important to give some thought to what you'll serve with them. Delicious sides always enhance any meal. Now that you know what to serve with scallops, try any of these recipes with your next meal.

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