St Patricks Day recipes include Irish recipes, green food and just fun recipes (2024)

St Patrick's Day recipes include Irish recipes, green food, kids funrecipes, and leprechaun's bringing luck. St Patrick's Day is anholiday honoring an Irish saint who died on March 17th.

However you celebrate it, it is a day to have fun, wear green andpretend you're Irish (even if you're not).

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Luck of Irish - St Patrick's Day Recipes

Festive Patty's Day Table Setting

• Gold glitter
• Green tablecloth
• Green paper

Bring a little fun and luck to your table simply by adding a greentablecloth and sprinkling gold glitter down the center. Your kidswill have a ball decorating. They can cut clover shapes out of greenpaper by using a clover cookie cutter as the pattern or by drawing 3hearts and adding a stem. Trace around the clover on green paper andcut out.

Leprechaun Pancake Breakfast

Create a fun leprechaun breakfast with pancakes. Use sliced bananas,blueberry and kiwis to decorate his face. Orange segments fill hisbeard and a chocolate licorice helps with the buckle on his kiwihat.

Clover Rolls

Ingredients:

• 2 cups warm milk
• 2 Tablespoons butter
• 2 Tablespoons sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 Tablespoon yeast
• 1/4 Cup warm water
• 1 egg
• 6 cups flour

Add milk and butter to a microwave safe dish. Warm for 1 minute oruntil butter melts. Add salt and 1 Tablespoon sugar to milk mixture.Add to mixing bowl. Blend in 3 cups flour.

Add 1/4 cup warm water to a bowl and add 1 Tablespoon sugar andyeast. Let sit 1-2 minutes then add to mixing bowl. Blend in 3remaining cups of flour. Take out of bowl and knead several minutes.Add 1 tablespoon oil to your bowl and place bread dough inside.Cover with a towel and let rise 1 hour. After 1 hour roll dough intosmall balls. Add 3 balls into a muffin tin to resemble a three leafclover. Bake at 350 degrees until golden brown.

18 Green Food Ideas St Patrick's Day Recipes

1. Go for fruit. There is a lot of green fruits that youcan cut up into small pieces or make into a green fruit salad.Green grapes, green apples, kiwifruit, avocado.


2. Spreads. Tint cream cheese or white frosting with asmall amount of green food coloring and have kids spread oncrackers or oatmeal cookies.


3. Vegetables. The great thing about green is there are alot of healthy green things to eat! Lettuce, cucumbers, celery,broccoli, green peppers, spinach and green beans. Snack on theseindividually or have kids make their own salad.


4. Green Jell-O. An easy project for the kids toput together.


5. Add green food coloring to bread dough, biscuits orsoft pretzel dough. Shape and bake.


6. Make a green dip for your green vegetables. Tryadding dill or parsley to a homemade ranch dressing. Or make a cucumber yogurt dip and place dip inside ahollowed out cucumber.


7. Make a green colored milkshake or green smoothie.
   


8. Pickles and cheese platter- Make a platter of slicedpickles, green olives and cheese cubes.
   


9. Make pistachio pudding and place in small plasticcups.


10. Add a few drops of green coloring to a cup of milk. Oradd a little bit of pistachio pudding and stir.


11. Green pancakes. Just add, yep you guessed it, greenfood coloring to your pancake batter. Try pouring your pancakebatter into a clover shape.


12. Greeneggs and ham. Read the book and create the recipe


13. Make homemade guacamole.
    


14. What better time to have your kids try something new like KaleChips.


15. Apple Frogs - using green apples and greengrapes can make this a fun green recipe for St. Patrick's Day.
    


16. Green Apple Snack
    Ingredients:
    • Green apple wedges
    • Cream cheese
    • Green food coloring
    Directions:
    Tint the cream cheese with a few drops of green food coloring.Have the kids spread cream cheese on top of apple wedges. Enjoya simple green snack.

Broccoli Bites

This recipe is full of nutrition with chopped broccoli and alsogreat fun for a green St Patrick's Day recipe.
Ingredients:

• 2 -10 oz. pkgs. frozen chopped broccoli, cooked and drained
• 2 Cups crushed seasoned stuffing
• 1 Cup grated Parmesan cheese
• 6 eggs, lightly beaten
• ½ Cup butter or margarine, softened
• ½ teaspoon Salt
• ¼ teaspoon Pepper

Directions: In mixing bowl add cooked, chopped broccoli. Crushstuffing with meat mallet or rolling pin. Add to broccoli. Stir incheese, eggs and soft butter. Season with salt and pepper. Stirtogether until well combined. Shape broccoli mixture into balls.Place each ball on a greased baking pan. Bake at 350 for 10-12minutes or until golden brown.

Pesto Pasta

This is not an Irish recipe but it will make a green kid friendlydinner recipe for St Patrick's Day.
Ingredients:

• ¼ Cup prepared Pesto sauce (pesto is made with basil and youcan usually find it in the pasta sauce aisle)
• 1 pkg. linguine or spaghetti noodles

Directions:
Cook noodles and drain. Toss pesto sauce with cooked noodles. Servewith fresh Parmesan cheese.

Here is another pestosalad recipe.

Dessert St Patrick's Day Recipes

Leprechaun Milkshake

Ingredients:

• 4 Cups milk
• ½ Cup or one large pistachio pudding mix package
• 4 Scoops vanilla ice cream

Directions:
Add ingredients together in blender and mix.

Lime Sherbet Punch

This quick easy St Patrick's Day recipe is delicious and a cinch tomake.
Ingredients:

• one quart lime sherbet
• 2 quarts Sprite or ginger ale

Directions:
Pour Sprite or ginger ale in pitcher or punch bowl. Add scoops ofsherbet and serve immediately.

Shamrock Cake

Ingredients:

• White or yellow cake mix
• One package of pistachio pudding
• Green food coloring
• 3 or 4 mini heart shape pans (whether you want a 3 leafclover or 4 leaf clover)
• One rectangle mini loaf pan
• White frosting

Directions:
Prepare cake mix according to directions. Add pudding and severaldrops of green food coloring. Grease heart cake pans withshortening. Dust the bottom of the pans with flour shaking all overuntil evenly coated. Pour batter into each pan. Bake according todirections and allow to cool.

When cakes have cooled, shape 3 hearts into the shape of theshamrock on a serving dish. Add the mini loaf pan as the stem.Prepare frosting by adding green food coloring to white frosting.For a minty flavor you can add 1/8 teaspoon peppermint extract tothe frosting. Frost your shamrocks.

Add some ShamrockColoring Mandala coloring pages for a fun activity.

Leprechaun Dessert

Ingredients:

• ½ gallon of mint chocolate chip ice cream
• Hershey's syrup
• Oreo Cookies or chocolate sandwich cookies

Directions:
Soften ice cream by leaving out for a few minutes. In 9x12 cake panor pie pan, crumble Oreo cookies over bottom. Spoon ice cream ontop. Arrange Oreo cookies along side of pan. Drizzle lines withchocolate syrup on top and more chopped cookies. Refreeze.

Mint Ice Cream

Ingredients:

• 3 eggs, lightly beaten
• 1 ¾ Cup milk
• ¾ Cup sugar
• pinch salt
• 1 ¾ Cup whipping cream
• 1 teaspoon Vanilla
• ¼ teaspoon Peppermint extract
• 4 drops green food coloring
• ½ Cup mini semisweet chocolate chips

Directions:
In a saucepan, combine eggs, milk, sugar and salt. Cook and stirover medium heat until mixture reaches 160 degrees(with candythermometer) and coats a metal spoon. Cool to room temp. Stir incream, vanilla, peppermint extract and food coloring if desired.Chill for 2 hours. Stir in chocolate chips. Fill ice cream freezercylinder 2/3 full; freeze according to directions.

Rainbow Theme Recipes

Rainbow Platter

Create a fun rainbow fruit and vegetable platter like this one.

See another rainbow fruitplatter and more rainbow ideas here.

Jell-O Rainbow

Ingredients:

• One small package of gelatin flavors of red, orange, yellow,green and blue
• 1 1/4 Cup hot water for each package
• Whip cream

Directions:
Dissolve jell-o in boiling water (don't add cold water). Place eachcolor in a separate bowl or flat buttered pan. Chill. When gelatinis set cut into squares. Place on a serving platter creating arainbow of colors in the colors listed above. If desired, beforeserving add whip cream at the end of the rainbow and add goldenchocolate coins.

Rainbow Cupcakes

Rainbow Cupcakes

Cookies

Rainbow Cookies

Rainbow Noodles

Rainbow Noodles

St. Patrick's Day Party Printables

Irish food: St Patrick's Day Recipes

Irish Potato Cakes

Corned Beef Brisket

This is one of the famous St Patrick's Day recipes for Irish food.
Ingredients:

• 1 onion
• Carrots cut in chunks as many as desired
• Potatoes cut in chunks as many as desired
• 1 Cup beef broth
• 1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
• One whole clove of garlic
• Bay leaf
• Cabbage cut in wedges

Directions:
Place cut vegetables on bottom of crock pot. Place corned beefbrisket on the top. In mixing bowl combine broth and Worcestershiresauce. Pour over top of brisket. Add garlic clove and bay leaf. Cookon low 6-8 hours. Add cabbage to top of pot half way through cookingtime.
Also try this recipe in the InstantPot.

Irish Soda Bread

Some common ingredients in Irish soda bread, besides the basicingredients, are buttermilk, caraway seeds and baking soda.
Ingredients:

• 2 Cups white flour
• 1 Cup whole wheat flour
• 2 teaspoons baking soda
• ½ teaspoon salt
• ½ Cup white sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 ½ Cups buttermilk
• ¾ Cup raisins
• 1 Tablespoon caraway seeds

Directions:
In mixing bowl combine flours, baking soda, salt and sugar. Inseparate bowl combine eggs and buttermilk. Pour into dry ingredientsand blend slightly, you just want the dough moistened so don't beatto long. Stir in raisins and caraway seeds with a spoon. On afloured surface knead dough several minutes. Place in a round cakepan. With a knife slice an X on the top of the loaf. Bake at 350degrees for 30-40 minutes until golden.

Irish Stew

A traditional Irish stew was prepared with the cheapest ingredientsthat were easily accessible. Lamb, potatoes, and onions could befound easily so they were often included in the stew. Now a days youcan find chicken, beef and any kind of vegetables included. Try yourown St Patrick's Day recipe for Irish Stew.
Ingredients:

• 2-4 lbs. cubed lamb, chicken or beef
• 2 teaspoons salt
• ¼ teaspoon pepper
• 2 quarts water or beef broth
• 2 bay leaves
• 1 Tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
• carrots, peeled and cut in slices, as many as desired
• potatoes, peeled and cubed, as many as desired
• onions, sliced, as many as desired

Directions:
Add ingredients to crock pot or large soup pan making sure liquidcovers all meat and vegetables. If cooking in crock pot cook on low6-8 hours or high 4-6 hours. On the stove top for one hour or oven 2hours covered.

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