These easy St. Patrick’s Day recipes, along with an easy meal plan and tips for St. Patrick’s Day fun will help you add to your family’s fun this holiday!
Easy St. Patrick’s Day Recipes And Themed Food
We love St Patrick’s Day! It’s such a fun time to have a little feisty Irish fun with the kids! We love to make it a fun and exciting day full of green themed food and fun and laughter! In recent years, I have kept the Christmas tree up into the Spring, changing the decorations to blue and silver in January, pink and red with hearts for Valentine’s Day and Green with shamrocks and other Itish themed decorations in March!
Here are some fun ideas to get you started, but feel free to be creative and come up with other fun traditions with your family!
You’ll find lots of easy St. Patrick’s Day recipes here, mostly for salads and desserts, but you can also find some recipes for traditional Irish corned beef and cabbage and amazing soda bread here!
Fun St. Patrick’s Day Tips:
- Surprise your kids by adding a few drops of green food coloring to the milk in their cereal. For even more fun, have a pitcher of green milk sitting in the fridge for them to grab for when they get up in the morning.
- Try making green oatmeal or cream of wheat.
- Start fun traditions like having everyone wear green on St. Patrick’s Day or making shamrocks for them to wear. It doesn’t take much to get into the spirit of things, but it can make a fun and memorable time!
- Add green food coloring to almost any food for a very unusual “green” meal.
- Green Fruits: kiwi, green grapes, honeydew, green apples
- Green Veggies: Broccoli, green peppers, Brussels sprouts, green beans, peas, asparagus
- Green Meats: I advise you to stay away from any green meats unless you want to spend some time in the hospital HA! HA! But you can serve corned beef (fresh, of course ;-).
Easy St. Patrick’s Day Meal Plan:
Beef Brisket (or the more traditional corned beef and cabbage)
Rice (add a few drops of green food coloring to the water before tossing in the rice)
Steamed broccoli
Celery sticks and green olives
Hope’s Lime Salad*
Brownies covered in green mint frosting
St. Patrick’s Day Slush*
Easy St. Patrick’s Day Recipes
Here’s a St. Patrick’s Day recipe that just screams St. Patrick’s Day! Not only is it green, but it uses all that cabbage you got on sale the week of St. Patrick’s Day. The ingredients are different but it makes a very light and refreshing salad when served on a lettuce leaf.
PrintHope’s Lime Salad
Ingredients
2 small packages of lime gelatin
1 cup boiling water
1 (13 oz.) can evaporated milk
3/4 cup mayonnaise
1 (20 oz.) can crushed pineapple
2 cups cabbage, finely chopped
1 cup nuts, chopped
Instructions
- Dissolve gelatin in boiling water.
- Add evaporated milk.
- Fold in mayonnaise.
- Add remaining ingredients.
- Pour into a 9×13 pan. Chill.
St. Patrick’s Slush
Ingredients
2 (3 oz.) packages lime gelatin
2 cups boiling water
2 cups cold water
2 quarts lime sherbet
4 cups ginger ale or lemon lime soda, chilled
Instructions
- Dissolve gelatin into boiling water.
- Add cold water and sherbet.
- Freeze 4-5 hours, until set.
- Remove from the freezer 45 minutes before serving.
- Place 1 cup of slush mixture in each glass with about 1/2 cup of soda.
St. Patrick’s Day Cookies
For a fast St. Patrick’s Day treat, dip Oreo cookies into melted white chocolate or almond bark then sprinkle with green sprinkles. All you need to do is to hold a cookie and dip it halfway in the melted chocolate. You can now get Oreos with the filling colored for different holidays and these would be fun to use.
You can do this for any holiday. Just change the color of the sprinkles and, of course, you could use different types of cookies.
Lime Fluff
Ingredients
1 pkg. unsweetened lime soft drink mix
1 can sweetened condensed milk
1 (8 oz.) container whipped topping
1 chocolate cookie or graham cracker crust
Instructions
- Mix drink mix and sweetened condensed milk.
- Fold in whipped topping.
- Place into crust.
- Cover and chill.
Notes
You can make this without the crust and try different flavors of soft drink mix. You could use red for Valentine’s Day, orange for Halloween and so on.
Cool Gelatin Salad
Ingredients
1 (3 oz.) pkg. lemon gelatin
1 (3 oz.) pkg. lime gelatin
1 cup boiling water
1 can sweetened condensed milk
1 package large curd cottage cheese
1 cup mayonnaise
1 (15 oz.) can crushed pineapple in heavy syrup
Instructions
- Dissolve gelatin in boiling water.
- Pour in the remaining ingredients and chill.
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