St. Patrick’s Day Recipes: 25+ easy, festive Irish food ideas to make at home

If you're looking for a sensational, easy-to-make dish to serve for breakfast or brunch, you can't go wrong with corned beef hash. Made from an irresistible combination of corned beef, potatoes, and onions cooked to crisp-tender perfection. Its name derives from French word hacher which means "to chop" in English, in fact originally this recipe was a way to use up leftover.

Shamrock pancakes are a fun, festive recipe you can enjoy the morning of St. Patrick's Day. Super easy to make even without a shamrock cookie cutter, the pancakes are bright green thanks to the gel food coloring. For the shape, just make three heart-shaped pancakes with the help of the appropriate cutter, cut out a stem and assemble everything to create a fantastic shamrock pancake recipe.

If you're a fan of French toast and also love the taste of Baileys Irish cream, we have the perfect recipe for you: Baileys French toast!

Hearty and rich corned beef and cabbage is a great-tasting, easy Irish recipe that is a favorite St. Patrick's Day dinner in many households. Featuring melt-in-your-mouth beef brisket, tender carrots and potatoes, and delicious cabbage, plus some seasonings, this simple dish is an easy one to master. You can cook corned beef and cabbage on the stovetop or in a slow cooker. Each yields tasty results, but the stovetop method is much faster. Whichever way you choose to make your corned beef and cabbage, you're sure to love it, especially when it's slathered in homemade horseradish sauce!

If you're planning a St. Patrick's Day feast for your friend and family this year, you'll definitely want to make this phenomenal traditional Irish stew. Made from succulent pieces of lamb and a medley of vegetables cooked in a rich gravy, each bite is a delight to the senses.

Hearty, flavorful shepherd's pie is an incredibly easy dinner you can make this St. Patrick's Day. This amazing savory pie recipe comes from England, and is made from minced lamb mixed with tender mixed veggies, and topped with a thick layer of rich, creamy mashed potatoes.

If you're ready to take your beef stew game to the next level, it's time you make Irish beef stew. This rich, hearty stew is a little different than your classic beef stew thanks to the addition of Guinness stout. The Guinness adds loads of flavor to the stew, helping to infuse the ultra-tender beef with the subtle flavor of stout beer. Traditional versions of Irish stew use lamb, but this one calls for beef. It's a great comfort food to make during the fall and winter, especially when served with some creamy mashed potatoes and some freshly baked crusty bread.

Irish soda bread is a wonderful, flavorful quick bread that you can make in no time. With a cross in the center, soda bread is made with baking soda instead of yeast (hence the name), so you don't need to wait around for hours for your dough to rise.

Colcannon is a traditional recipe to serve Irish mashed potatoes on St. Patrick's Day. Quick and easy to make, it is a creamy and smooth side dish with such an amazing taste that will melt in your mouth. The combination of cabbage or kale and potatoes is perfect as it does not call for the pungent vegetable flavor.

If you've never tried Irish potato pancakes, you're in for a treat! More commonly known as boxty, this delicious Irish side dish is like a cross between a classic hash brown or latke and a potato pancake. It's a bread-like, pan-fried savory treat made from grated parmesan, mashed and grated potatoes, and buttermilk.

Champ is a classic Irish potato side dish that's especially popular in and around Ulster. It is made from mashed potatoes, milk infused with green onions, butter, and chives.

If you're looking for a delicious, flavorful main dish you can serve this St. Patrick's Day, Dublin coddle is the ideal meal to make. Dublin coddle is an incredibly tasty stew made from succulent Irish sausage, smoky bacon, and tender potatoes.

St. Patrick's Day cookies are a fun, easy recipe you can make to celebrate Paddy's Day this year. With delicious crisp edges, these soft, chewy cookies are festive versions of the classic sugar cookie recipe that are cut out with a shamrock cookie cutter and decorated with homemade royal icing.

Chocolate Guinness cake is an easy, delicious dessert recipe hard to resist. It has a decadent chocolate, sweet malty flavor, and tender, moist crumb.

If you're looking for a fun, easy, sweet recipe you can make this St. Patrick's day, you'll love these festive St. Patrick's Day cupcakes. With their bright green color, they're the perfect festive treat to serve this March 17th.

Barmbrack is a phenomenal-tasting Irish bread that people traditionally serve at Halloween. It has a fragrant lightly spiced flavor and sweet, tea-soaked dried fruit such as raisins and sultans. Thanks to its almost soft texture and sweet, but not too sweet flavor, many households make barmbrack regardless of the season.

With its delicious sweet-tart flavor Irish apple cake is a wonderful light dessert that doubles as a tasty breakfast when you're in the mood to treat yourself.

Silky, creamy Baileys chocolate cream pie is the phenomenal tasting dessert you need to make for your next get-together with friends and family. It's a gorgeous pie that's sure to impress. This stunning dessert has a rich chocolatey, boozy flavor thanks to the combination of chocolate and Baileys Irish cream liqueur.

If you're a fan of red velvet cake, you'll love this simple, festive green velvet cake for St. Patrick's Day. Green velvet cake has the same ultra-soft, fluffy moist texture as red velvet cake, and the same delicious vanilla mixed with subtle chocolate flavor topped off with tangy buttercream.

The mint and chocolate cheesecake is a delicious dessert with a delicately refreshing flavor. It is a simple and perfect preparation for the summer season because it does not require baking but just some resting in the refrigerator. With a creamy and at the same time crunchy consistency, thanks to the presence of the chocolate flakes inside the filling, it can be easily prepared in advance and it is perfect for any occasion or time of day; from the party buffet to a simple snack with your friends. So let’s see how to prepare mint and chocolate cheesecake in the best way.

This Irish cream is a very easy copycat version for Baileys Irish cream that you can make it for you recipes or as a drink. You only need a handful of ingredients (sugar, cream, whiskey, coffee, cocoa powder) and not much cooking.

In the United States, green beer is synonymous with St. Patrick's Day. This brilliant emerald green drink can be found virtually everywhere come March 17th.

Irish coffee is fantastic for all sorts of occasions – it's a wonderful warming cocktail to enjoy on St. Patrick's Day, and it's excellent as an after-dinner drink. Made with rich, strong coffee mixed with Irish whiskey, and a dash of sugar, then topped with whipped cream, it's a delicious cocktail with bold flavors.

Who doesn't love ordering an irresistibly minty, creamy shamrock shake from McDonald's around St. Patrick's Day? The only problem is that McDonald's only features them for a limited time. Here's the good news – with this easy McDonald's copycat shamrock shake recipe, you can satisfy your shamrock shake cravings all year round.

Irish flag shot is a layered, impressive yet super easy drink to make that's perfect to celebrate St. Patrick's Day.

Pickleback shots are a popular shot to take when you're out with friends, especially if you like whiskey. The pickleback is a shot of chilled pickle juice which is taken after drinking a shot of whiskey or bourbon.

Drink your dessert with this easy chocolate martini recipe. With its rich, creamy texture and boozy chocolatey flavor, this sweet dessert version of the classic martini is always a winner. It's a fantastic drink to serve after dinner when you're in the mood for something sweet but don't want to make a proper dessert.