Green Foods Galore: 21 Great Recipes for St. Patrick’s Day
Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day by serving fun green foods, such as shamrock-shaped tortilla chips, burritos, Irish coffee cookies, and green pudding shots.
While most of these aren’t traditional Irish recipes, their green color makes them perfect for St. Patrick’s Day.
Green Foods For St. Patrick’s Day
This leprechaun-approved recipe list features all sorts of green foods for your St. Patrick’s Day celebration.
Includes mains, sides, cocktails, desserts, snacks, appetizers, and more.
Green Goddess Salad
Various veggies are swimming in a sea of creamy green goddess salad dressing. Scoop it up with tortilla chips for some extra crunch.
Get the Recipe: Green Goddess Salad
Rainbow Irish Whiskey Cocktail
This festive cocktail is packed with fruit flavor from the melon liqueur and sour apple schnapps.
The rainbow sugar rim and garnishes are a fun touch.
Get the Recipe: Rainbow Irish Whiskey Cocktail
Green Burritos
If you want to change it up from corned beef and cabbage, try these tasty salsa verde chicken burritos.
Get the Recipe: Green Burritos
Homemade Shamrock Shake
Make a homemade version of the wildly popular mint shake from McDonald’s.
Get the Recipe: Homemade Shamrock Shake
Colcannon with Kale
This traditional Irish potato recipe is the perfect side for your St. Patrick’s Day feast. It’s cheesy, creamy, and tasty.
Get the Recipe: Colcannon with Kale
Shamrock Tortilla Chips and Spinach Dip
Both kids and adults will love dipping these shamrock-shaped chips into creamy spinach dip.
Get the Recipe: Shamrock Tortilla Chips and Spinach Dip
Green Spaghetti
Spice up your spaghetti with this decadent poblano pepper sauce.
Get the Recipe: Green Spaghetti
Spinach Alfredo Pizza
The puff pastry crust is cooked to golden perfection and topped with alfredo, spinach, artichoke hearts, and other yummy ingredients.
Get the Recipe: Spinach Alfredo Pizza
Matcha Cookies
These chewy cookies have the best flavor combo: white chocolate and matcha.
Get the Recipe: Matcha Cookies
Irish Coffee Shamrock Cookies
These cute shamrock cookies have a beautiful coffee flavor and Irish cream infused frosting.
Get the Recipe: Irish Coffee Shamrock Cookies
Adults will love the cookies, but here are some St. Patrick’s Day desserts for kids if you need something more kid-friendly.
Easy Guacamole
Guacamole makes an excellent St. Patrick’s Day appetizer. This recipe only takes five minutes to make.
Get the Recipe: Easy Guacamole
St. Patrick’s Day Cinnamon Rolls
Start your St. Patrick’s Day off right with these cute shamrock cinnamon rolls.
Get the Recipe: St. Patrick’s Day Cinnamon Rolls
Key Lime Pie Cheesecake
Not only is this cheesecake impressive to look at, but it’s delicious, too. The homemade graham cracker crust is heavenly.
Get the Recipe: Key Lime Pie Cheesecake
Creamed Cabbage with Bacon
A crowd-pleasing side dish, this creamed cabbage recipe is packed with bacon and is incredibly simple to make.
Get the Recipe: Creamed Cabbage with Bacon
Green Fruit Cups
These green-themed fruit cups are such a cute idea for kids.
Get the Recipe: Green Fruit Cups
Oreo Mint Chocolate Cake
With pretty green ombre layers, this cake is a showstopper.
Get the Recipe: Oreo Mint Chocolate Cake
Avocado Toast
This avocado toast is a simple St. Patrick’s Day breakfast ready in just ten minutes.
Get the Recipe: Avocado Toast
St. Patrick’s Day Pudding Shots
Get in the St. Patrick’s Day spirit by making vanilla and Irish cream flavored pudding shots.
Substitutions are included to make this non-alcoholic.
Get the Recipe: St. Patrick’s Day Pudding Shots
Here are more St. Patrick’s Day Irish cream Bailey’s drinks and cocktails.
Green Veggie and Fruit Board
This board features a variety of green fruits and vegetables and creamy avocado dip.
Get the Recipe: Green Veggie and Fruit Board
Pistachio Fluff (Watergate Salad)
Pistacio fluff salad, or Watergate salad, is filled with pistachio, fruit, and marshmallow flavors.
Get the Recipe: Pistachio Fluff
Corned Beef Spinach Roll-Ups
A creative spin on corned beef and cabbage, these wraps are made with corned beef, sauerkraut and other ingredients.
Get the Recipe: Corned Beef Spinach Roll-Ups
