Get creative this St. Patrick’s Day and enjoy a plant-based menu that’s great-tasting and healthy to boot. We’ve put together a mix of both traditional Irish recipes, as well as some that feature the popular St. Patrick’s Day color—green!
Potato-Spinach Casserole with Trumpet Mushrooms
This tasty vegan quiche-like casserole features creamy spuds, earthy green spinach, and umami-rich trumpet mushrooms. A slurry thickened with chickpea and brown rice flour gets cheesy flavor from nutritional yeast, while grated tofu adds extra oomph. Notes a fan, “The whole thing is just delicious; my husband pronounced it ‘company worthy;! That means our meat-eating friends will like it too.”
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Cheesy Vegan Stuffed Spinach Bites
With a mixture of spinach and mashed potatoes forming the outside layer and a gooey vegan cheese at the center, these fun and hearty balls are the perfect finger food for a green-themed Irish feast. Note: These take a little time to prepare, but you’ll be glad you did. Serve with Marinara Sauce.
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Air-Fried Fingerling Potatoes
These crowd-pleasing crispy fingerling potatoes make a great side dish or appetizer. A coating of ground flaxseed seasoned with chipotle chile powder gives them a scrumptiously spicy crunch. Oil-free and absolutely delicious, these tasty bites only take 20 minutes to cook in an air fryer. Serve with the zesty and deliciously green Creamy Chimichurri Dip.
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Waffled Smashed Potatoes with Creamed Spinach
Need a satisfying start to your St Patrick’s Day celebrations? This inventive recipe uses your waffle maker to transform steamed potatoes into crispy-on-the-outside and creamy-on-the-inside waffles. Dijon mustard, tahini, and paprika give them a tangy creaminess with extra depth, and a creamed spinach topping comes together quickly and perfectly complements the potato waffles. Writes one happy reviewer, “We tried this recipe out for brunch this morning (“retired persons brunch!”), and it was fabulous.”
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Secret Ingredient Vegan Ranch Sauce
Fresh dill, parsley, and chives give this vegan ranch dressing an Irish-themed green hue and a satisfying herbaceous tang. Cashews and potatoes lend creaminess, and a dash of white wine vinegar adds subtle brightness. Serve with Buffalo cauliflower, steamed artichokes, savory salads, and crudités.
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Vegan Mashed Potatoes with Kale
Looking for the perfect side dish worthy of a celebration dinner table? Prepare to fall in love with these showstopping mashed taters. Creamy mashed red potatoes are combined with wilted garlicky kale, with fresh dill adding a subtle anise flavor and aromatic depth. Serve as they are or add your favorite vegan gravy. Make plenty; in the unlikely event that you have leftovers, they taste great the next day.
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Irish White Bean and Cabbage Stew
Loaded with basic ingredients like cabbage, potatoes, barley, and white beans, this classic Irish stew is seriously delicious—a healthy, filling meal all on its own.
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Super Greens Soup with Chickpeas
A little tahini is all you need to add an underlying depth of flavor to this hearty green-hued soup. A single potato helps to thicken it, and loads of greens make it super-nourishing! Top with pomegranate seeds, chickpeas, and peas.
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Hearty Purple Cabbage Soup
Warm the cockles of your Irish heart with this deeply nourishing soup of purple cabbage, onion, and potato. Finish with a sprig of fresh thyme and sprinkle with parsley and green peas for a meal to remember.
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Potato Waffle Sandwiches with Herbed Tofu Cream
Add a touch of Irish to your sandwich routine by subbing potato waffles for bread. In these scrumptious crispy waffle sandwiches, a simple batter featuring coarsely grated potato is spooned into a waffle machine and cooked for around six minutes. Top with fresh salad ingredients and a quick-and-easy, creamy herb sauce that you can whip up while the waffles cook. Notes a fan: “A unique and delicious take on a sandwich.”
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Slow-Cooker Split Pea Soup
Your Irish grandma would approve of this velvety vegan spit pea soup. Throw it into your slow cooker in the morning and come home to the earthy-smoky aroma of home-cooked soup. One reviewer notes: “Was impressed on how good it was without using a ham bone.” We agree; just a little smoked paprika is all you need to give it a yummy smoky flavor. In a hurry? No problem: It only takes 20 minutes to put together, or as one reviewer puts it: “Just chop and drop.” This one’s a keeper!
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Split Pea and Cauliflower Soup
Split pea soup traditionally gets its flavor from ham bones, but in this plant-based version a well-chosen mix of spices gives all the flavor you need.
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Spring Greens Soup
Mixed spring greens and cucumber form the base of this lush chilled green soup, while frozen peas and avocado make it deliciously creamy. Top with a fresh gremolata for lemony crunch.
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Savoy Cabbage Rolls
Stuffed with a potato-couscous-kale mix, these stunning leafy wraps, drizzled with tomato sauce, offer a contemporary spin on two quintessentially Irish veggies: potato and cabbage.
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Green Lentil Spoon Salad
Fragrant with fresh herbs, this luscious green lentil vegetable salad is best served chilled, allowing time for the flavors to mingle. One reader notes, “Can’t believe how good this is. Even non-vegan family members love this.”
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Green Bean Pasta with Cashew Pesto
In this easy family-friendly meal, fresh basil pesto gives pasta and cannellini beans scrumptious rich flavor, while green beans add extra veggie goodness.
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Lentil Shepherd's Pie with Rustic Parsnip Crust
The meaty texture of lentils make them an ideal filling for a vegan shepherd’s pie. Be sure to make plenty, as it’s even better the next day!
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Vegan Minestrone Soup with Potatoes and Kale
Simple, satisfying, and seriously tasty, this hearty minestrone soup ticks all the boxes. Onion, garlic, and mushrooms ratchet up the umami goodness of the savory broth, while potato and cannellini beans add creamy bites. Tender kale adds a helping of greens and rounds out the flavors. Writes one commenter: “It was a raining tonight and I wanted a quick soup…. It filled the bill for a fall evening and was delicious.”
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Roasted Red Potatoes and Cabbage
In this comforting side dish, wedges of cabbage and red potatoes are roasted with a mix of oregano, chili powder, lemon, and black pepper. Top it all off with a drizzle of creamy Cilantro-Cashew Dressing.
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Lima Bean Pesto Hummus
For a green-hued, fresh-tasting hummus use frozen lima beans and fresh basil leaves instead of chickpeas. Serve with your favorite crackers, pita bread, or crudités.
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Roasted Asparagus with Tarragon and Balsamic
This platter of oven-roasted, perfectly seasoned asparagus spears is guaranteed to please any crowd.
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Emerald Hummus Dip with Fresh Herbs
This spinach and herb hummus is as easy as it is green. Serve with dippers like toasted tortilla chips and veggie sticks. For extra wow this St. Patrick’s Day choose all green veggies for dippers, such as cucumber, green bell pepper, asparagus, and snow peas.
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Green Goddess Dip
This base for this luscious green dip is zucchini, so there is a lightness to it that’s really appealing when you feel like an alternative to bean-based hummus.
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Green Pea Hummus with Fresh Mint
Brighten up the color and flavor of simple chickpea hummus with sweet green peas and fresh mint in this 15-minute healthy vegan hummus recipe.
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Manna Quinoa Breakfast Bowl
In this ultimate green-themed breakfast, kiwifruit is blended with wheatgrass and kale for tangy-sweet flavor, then the mixture is topped with quinoa, fresh fruit, and seeds.
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Cream of Broccoli Soup
The addition of one small potato makes this broccoli soup creamy and thick. Thanks, potato—you’ve done it again!
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Veggie Wraps with Herbed Hummus
Gorgeously green and packed with flavor, these wraps use steamed collard greens for the outside and are stuffed with a bounty of raw veggies, avocado, and Herbed Hummus.
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Green Goddess Grain Bowls
Celebrate all things green with this sorghum grain bowl topped with cool green veggies and a drizzle of avocado-based Green Goddess Dressing.
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Potato Pancakes
These crispy, gluten-free potato and zucchini pancakes are baked, not fried, and would make a great St. Patrick’s Day brunch or lunch.
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Herbed Fingerling Potatoes
One of the tricks to cooking great-tasting food without oil is learning new cooking methods. In this recipe, all the cooking is done on the stovetop, yet it seems like the potatoes have been roasted in oil.
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Green Pea Guacamole
For a low-fat, avocado-free guacamole, try this tasty blend of frozen green peas and classic add-ins like fresh garlic, lime, cilantro, cumin, and hot sauce.
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Spinach-Potato Tacos
One of the best parts of understanding the health benefits of a whole-food plant based diet is that you stop freaking out about carbs and can enjoy tasty carb-on-carb meals like these potato tacos.
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Chickpea Avocado Salad
Serve chickpeas, avocado, lime juice, cilantro, and red onion on a bed of greens for a fresh-tasting and satisfying green salad.
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Potato Snackers with Red Pepper Dip
Get snack-ready with a batch of crispy potato rounds. They’re great served by themselves, with red pepper hummus, or with a green-themed dip such as Lima Bean Pesto Hummus or Herbed Hummus.
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Pizza with Creamed Spinach, Sun-Dried Tomatoes, Red Onion, and Olives
The creamy tofu-based spinach filling in this scrumptious pizza is right on point for a green-themed St Patrick’s Day menu. Serve it up and watch it go!
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Green Beans and Potatoes with Mustard Vinaigrette
Let those new season potatoes shine in this simple green bean, bulgur wheat, and potato salad. Added bonus: It’s ready in just 20 minutes!