St Patricks Day recipes

St Patricks Day recipes include Irish recipes, green food, kids fun recipes, and leprechaun's bringing luck. St Patricks Day is an holiday honoring an Irish saint who died on March 17th. However you celebrate it, it is a day to have fun, wear green and pretend your Irish (even if you're not).

Luck of Irish -St Patricks Day Recipes

Jell-O Rainbow
One small package of Gelatin flavors of red, orange, yellow, green and blue
1 1/4 Cup hot water for each package
Whip cream
Dissolve jell-o in boiling water (don’t add cold water). Place each color in a separate bowl or flat buttered pan. Chill. When gelatin is set cut into squares. Place on a serving platter creating a rainbow of colors in the colors listed above. Before serving add whip cream at the end of the rainbow.

Leprechaun Milkshake
4 Cups milk
½ Cup or one large pistachio pudding mix package
4 Scoops vanilla ice cream
Add ingredients together in blender and mix.

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 green tablecloth and sprinkling gold glitter down the center. Your kids will have a ball decorating. They can cut clover shapes out of green paper by using a clover cookie cutter as the pattern or by drawing 3 hearts and adding a stem. Trace around the clover on green paper and cut out.

Clover Rolls
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 or until 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 and yeast. Let sit 1-2 minutes then add to mixing bowl. Blend in 3 remaining 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 into small balls. Add 3 balls into a muffin tin to resemble a three leaf clover. Bake at 350 degrees until golden brown.

Green Dinner St Patricks Day Recipes

Broccoli Bites
This recipe is full of nutrition with chopped broccoli and also great fun for a green St Patricks Day recipe.
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
In mixing bowl add cooked, chopped broccoli. Crush stuffing with meat mallet or rolling pin. Add to broccoli. Stir in cheese, eggs and soft butter. Season with salt and pepper. Stir together until well combined. Shape broccoli mixture into balls. Place each ball on a greased baking pan. Bake at 350 for 10-12 minutes or until golden brown.

Pesto Pasta
This is not an Irish recipe but it will make a green kid friendly dinner recipe for St Patricks Day.
¼ Cup prepared Pesto sauce( pesto is made with basil and you can usually find it in the pasta sauce aisle)
1 pkg. Linguine or spaghetti noodles
Cook noodles and drain. Toss pesto sauce with cooked noodles. Serve with fresh Parmesan cheese.

Dessert St Patricks Day Recipes

Lime Sherbet Punch
This quick easy St Patricks Day recipe is delicious and a cinch to make.
one quart lime sherbet
2 quarts Sprite or ginger ale
Pour Sprite or ginger ale in pitcher or punch bowl. Add scoops of sherbet and serve immediately.

Shamrock Cake
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 leaf clover or 4 leaf clover)
One rectangle mini loaf pan
White frosting
Prepare cake mix according to directions. Add pudding and several drops of green food coloring. Grease heart cake pans with shortening. Dust the bottom of the pans with flour shaking all over until evenly coated. Pour batter into each pan. Bake according to directions and allow to cool. When cakes have cooled, shape 3 hearts into the shape of the shamrock 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 to the frosting. Frost your shamrocks and enjoy your St Patricks Day recipe.

Leprechaun Dessert
½ gallon of mint chocolate chip ice cream
Hershey's syrup
Oreo Cookies or chocolate sandwich cookies
Soften ice cream by leaving out for a few minutes. In 9x12 cake pan crumble Oreo cookies over bottom. Spoon ice cream on top. Arrange Oreo cookies along side of pan. Drizzle lines with chocolate syrup on top and refreeze.

Mint Ice Cream
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
In a saucepan, combine eggs, milk, sugar and salt. Cook and stir over medium heat until mixture reaches 160 degrees(with candy thermometer) and coats a metal spoon. Cool to room temp. Stir in cream, vanilla, peppermint extract and food coloring if desired. Chill for 2 hours. Stir in chocolate chips. Fill ice cream freezer cylinder 2/3 full; freeze according to directions.

Some fun St. Patricks Day gift ideas.

Irish food: St Patricks Day Recipes

Irish Potato Cakes


Corned Beef Brisket
This is one of the famous St Patricks Day recipes for Irish food.
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
Place cut vegetables on bottom of crock pot. Place corned beef brisket on the top. In mixing bowl combine broth and Worcestershire sauce. Pour over top of brisket. Add garlic clove and bay leaf. Cook on low 6-8 hours. Add cabbage to top of pot half way through cooking time.


Irish Soda Bread
Some common ingredients in Irish soda bread, besides the basic ingredients, are buttermilk, caraway seeds and baking soda.
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
In mixing bowl combine flours, baking soda, salt and sugar. In separate bowl combine eggs and buttermilk. Pour into dry ingredients and blend slightly, you just want the dough moistened so don't beat to long. Stir in raisins and caraway seeds with a spoon. On a floured surface knead dough several minutes. Place in a round cake pan. With a knife slice an X on the top of the loaf. Bake at 350 degrees for 30-40 minutes until golden.

Irish Stew
A traditional Irish stew was prepared with the cheapest ingredients that were easily accessible. Lamb, potatoes, and onions could be found easily so they were often included in the stew. Now a days you can find chicken, beef and any kind of vegetables included. Try your own St Patricks Day recipe for Irish Stew.
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
Add ingredients to crock pot or large soup pan making sure liquid covers all meat and vegetables. If cooking in crock pot cook on low 6-8 hours or high 4-6 hours. On the stove top for one hour or oven 2 hours covered.

Kids Cooking Video: Irish Soda Bread

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