St. Patrick's Day Recipes

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These St. Patrick’s Day Recipes are simple, satisfying and perfect for sharing with family and friends as you celebrate the luck of the Irish.

Whether you’re planning a festive dinner or simply looking for cozy comfort food, this collection of Irish recipes has everything you need to celebrate. From hearty main dishes to rustic breads, indulgent desserts and festive drinks, these recipes bring together the warm, satisfying flavors that make Irish cooking so memorable.

Main Course – Tender corned beef, Dublin Coddle (a pub favorite) and rich stew recipes

Breads – Buttery soda breads fresh from the oven

Beverages – Warming Irish coffee and a great Irish Whisky cocktail

Desserts – A wide array of sweet treats to finish the meal

If you’re building the perfect St. Patrick’s Day menu, you’ll find plenty of delicious inspiration right here! 💚

Hearty Main Course Recipes 🍀

Irish cooking is known for hearty, comforting meals that bring people together around the table. From slow-cooked corned beef and cabbage to savory stews, these classic main dishes are simple, satisfying and full of flavor.

Guinness Beef Stew

Tender chunks of beef cooked in a rich, thick flavorful gravy with plenty of onions, carrots and potatoes. Green peas are optional but I love them in this stew!

Check out this recipe

Colcannon

Colcannon is a traditional Irish dish made with cabbage, onions and potatoes. It's easy to make, inexpensive and delicious pure Irish comfort food!

Easy Colcannon

Slow-Cooker Corned Beef and Cabbage

Deliciously tender slow-cooked beef brisket with potatoes, carrots, onion and cabbage.

Easy Corned Beef and Cabbage

A plate of sausages with onion gravy over mashed potatoes

Bangers and Mash with Onion Gravy

Also known as sausages and mash, this easy, hearty dish is a favorite throughout Great Britain and Ireland.

Classic Bangers and Mash

Cottage pie topped with mashed potatoes lightly browned

Meaty, Hearty Cottage Pie

Cottage Pie is a delicious meaty casserole made with ground meat and vegetables simmered in a rich, flavorful sauce. The casserole is topped with mashed potatoes and baked to golden brown perfection.

Classic Cottage Pie

Quick and Easy Poached Salmon with Irish Butter Sauce

_{Salmon is gently poached then topped with a lemony butter sauce. This dish can be ready in about 20 minutes making it a delicious, quick and easy meal any night of the week.}

Poached Salmon with Irish Butter Sauce

A cast iron Dutch oven filled with bangers, potatoes and bacon.

Dublin Coddle

A traditional Irish Classic made with potatoes, sausage and bacon slow cooked to perfection! Camping and oven recipe instructions included.

Traditional Dublin Coddle

Crustless spinach tarts topped with shredded Parmesan.

Crustless Spinach Tarts – An Irish Recipe

These crustless tarts are a delicious way to load up on your greens and a lot of protein to boot. This simple and delicious recipe dates back three generations of the Mary Fitzgerald family of Wexford, Ireland.

Spinach Tarts

Irish Bread Recipes 🍀

Few things are as comforting as warm bread fresh from the oven. Irish baking traditions offer some truly wonderful options. From classic Irish soda bread to hearty brown bread, these recipes are simple and incredibly satisfying. Serve soup or stew, or enjoy a thick slice with butter and jam for a taste of Irish comfort.

A loaf of brown Irish soda bread on a cutting board with butter on the side.

Brown Irish Soda Bread with Seeds and Nuts

_{Fresh Baked Brown Irish Soda Bread with an amazing crust, a nutty, fluffy, soft crumb and great flavor often found with harder-to-make yeast breads.}

Brown Irish Soda Bread

A cast iron skillet with a loaf of fresh baked Irish soda bread.

Easy Irish Soda Bread

One of the easiest, most rewarding quick breads you can make at home! I love it's craggy, shaggy rustic appearance and fantastic flavor. Serve warm with Irish butter – oh my 😋

Irish Soda Bread

A loaf of Irish Barm Brack on a cutting board.

Barm Brack – Irish Halloween Bread

This fruit filled yeasted dough is a little sweeter than sandwich bread, but not rich like cake. Many Irish bake items into the bread as a game of fortune-telling. Sometimes there’s a ring indicating an impending marriage or a coin foretelling good fortune, luck or riches.

Barm Brack

St. Patrick’s Day Drinks 🍀

No Irish-inspired celebration would be complete without something special in your glass. From Irish coffee and creamy liqueur to a grown up only festive cocktail, these recipes are perfect for toasting the occasion.

A coffee cup filled with Irish coffee topped with whipped cream.

Irish Coffee Recipe

Enjoy a mug of this authentic Irish Coffee Recipe for a nice ending to a great meal, or for your next St. Patrick's Day celebration!

Irish Coffee

A glass of Jameson and ginger ale on a table with limes.

Jameson and Ginger Ale with Lime

A smooth and bubbly grown-up drink made with Jameson Irish Whiskey, bottled ginger ale and plenty of fresh squeezed lime juice.

Irish Whiskey and Ginger Ale

Homemade Irish Cream with White Chocolate

Creamy, dreamy, smooth and delicious! A wonderful after dinner drink that tastes like dessert.

White Chocolate Irish Cream

Irish Inspired Desserts 🍀

Irish desserts tend to be simple, nostalgic and wonderfully indulgent. Think buttery cakes and desserts infused with flavors like chocolate, whiskey and cream. Whether you’re finishing off a holiday meal or just treating yourself to something sweet, these desserts bring a little Irish charm to the table.

An overhead view of a platter of slice and bake cookies with green clovers in the middle and green sanding sugar around the edges.

Slice and Bake St. Patrick’s Day Cookies

Homemade slice and bake cookies using your favorite cookie cutters. For St. Patrick's Day we use a small 1 ½ inch clover design and a green sanding sugar coating.

St. Patrick’s Day Cookies

A slice of Baileys Irish Cream Pie on a plate with the corner cut off.

Creamy Bailey’s Irish Cream Pie

If you’re a fan of Irish cream liqueur, you’re going to LOVE this pie! With an almond cookie crust and velvety no-bake filling, our delicious pie will put the spirit in your St. Patrick’s Day event.

Bailey’s Irish Cream Pie

Chocolate cake with a white icing on a cake stand

Luscious Guinness Chocolate Cake

Rich and moist Guinness Chocolate Cake is great for St. Patrick's Day or for the chocolate lover in your life. No doubt you'll notice the moist, tender crumb, rich chocolate flavor and the wonderful life spicy notes in this deliciously not-too-sweet black cake.

Guinness Chocolate Cake

Marbled Irish Cream Breakfast Cake

This “Breakfast” style cake has a soft, tender crumb and layers and layers of flavor from the coffee extract and luscious Irish cream glaze.

Irish Cream Breakfast Cake

Irish Coffee Cupcakes

This St. Patrick’s Day, be THAT friend and share an Irish Coffee Cupcake with your coffee loving grownups. They’ll enjoy the subtle flavor of coffee in the cake and the jolt of caffeine and whiskey in the frosting.

Irish Coffee Cupcakes

A slice of apple crumble cake on a plate with a fork.

Irish Apple Crumble Cake with Apple Brandy Sauce

Enjoy this rustic and moist single layer cake made with fresh diced apples, cinnamon and a sweet crumble top. It's perfect drizzled with Apple Brandy Sauce!

Irish Apple Crumble Cake

A platter of Chocolate truffles filled with Irish Cream.

Bailey’s Irish Cream Chocolate Truffles

St. Patrick's Day is often associated with the beginning of spring, flowers blooming, warm breezes in the afternoon and all things green. These amazing truffles may not be green but they're made with Irish cream and dark chocolate so who cares!?

Irish Cream Truffles

My favorite Irish Cookbooks

I have a very large collection of cookbooks stacked everywhere in my home. Some of my favorites are Irish cookbooks. I own each of these and would buy them all again!

Rachel’s Irish Family Food – “120 classic recipes from my home to yours” AUTHOR: Rachel Allen.

Everyday Cook – “Vibrant recipes, simple methods, delicious dishes” AUTHOR: Donal Skehan

Irish Traditional Cooking – “over 300 recipes from Ireland’s Heritage” AUTHOR: Darina Allen

The Complete Irish Pub Cookbook – “The best of traditional and contemporary Irish Cooking” Published by: LOVE FOOD, Parragon Books

Irish Country Cooking – “More than 100 recipes for today’s table” Published by: The Irish Countrywomen’s Association.

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Hearty Main Course Recipes 🍀

Salmon is gently poached then topped with a lemony butter sauce. This dish can be ready in about 20 minutes making it a delicious, quick and easy meal any night of the week.

Irish Bread Recipes 🍀

Fresh Baked Brown Irish Soda Bread with an amazing crust, a nutty, fluffy, soft crumb and great flavor often found with harder-to-make yeast breads.

St. Patrick’s Day Drinks 🍀

Irish Inspired Desserts 🍀

My favorite Irish Cookbooks

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_{Salmon is gently poached then topped with a lemony butter sauce. This dish can be ready in about 20 minutes making it a delicious, quick and easy meal any night of the week.}

_{Fresh Baked Brown Irish Soda Bread with an amazing crust, a nutty, fluffy, soft crumb and great flavor often found with harder-to-make yeast breads.}