St. Patrick's Day Recipes

As luck would have it, any day can be St. Patrick's Day when you cook up this classic one-pot dish. Surprising tidbit: Corned beef and cabbage originated in New York, not Ireland!

By adding an egg, sugar, caraway seeds, and butter to a traditional Irish soda bread recipe, you create a loaf that's moist with more flavor, perfect for a Sunday breakfast or brunch. Wrapped well with plastic wrap, it can be stored at room temperature until the last crumb is eaten. Like all Irish soda breads, this freezes well.

Two twists set this version of the classic warming drink apart—maple syrup acts as the sweetener, and a touch of cocoa powder brings out the flavor of the coffee.

Green sprinkles add a festive touch to this dessert of fudgy chocolate brownies, adapted from the "Martha Stewart Baking Handbook."

Traditional Irish potato pancakes, also known as boxty, are made with a mixture of mashed and grated potatoes for a texture that's part pancake, part hash brown. Serve with Irish Bangers and Sauteed Swiss Chard for a complete St. Patrick's Day meal.

In celebration of St. Patrick's Day, we've reimagined the traditional drink as a cupcake for grown-ups. The moist, delicate Irish Coffee Cupcakes are flavored with espresso and brown sugar and topped with billowy whipped-cream frosting spiked with whiskey. A dusting of espresso powder makes a festive finish. If you don't have two muffin tins, bake these cupcakes in batches.

This sauce comes out bright with a bite, thanks to sweet steamed beets and fiery fresh horseradish root. Dab it on to favorites like corned beef, roasted salmon, or even these cheesy scalloped potatoes. To make a white horseradish sauce, simply omit the beet from the recipe.

This cream liqueur is equal parts delicious and indulgent--serve it on the rocks or alongside your next round of after-dinner coffees for use as milk and sweetener with an extra kick.

This Treacle Brown Bread is delicious with good Irish butter and sea salt. Or try it with blackberry jam and slices of an Irish blue cheese, such as Cashel Blue.

This crusty, traditional Irish bread is a proud product of the peasant hearth—and the most suitable companion to Irish Stew. Soda bread requires no rising time, as baking powder, baking soda, and buttermilk act as leaveners.

These Korean-style barbecued ribs are served with pickled Taiwan bok choy; the greens are infused with the flavors of rice-wine vinegar, ginger, toasted sesame oil, garlic, chiles, and scallions

Baby carrots are glazed in a white-wine-and-butter sauce and served with spring onions in this delicious side.

Lucky guests will love this whiskey Irish Buck Cocktail for St. Patrick's Day, especially if you serve a round with Leek-and-Cheddar Dip.

Braised Short Rib stewed in Guinness make up the filling of this Irish meat pie, while crisped potatoes form the top "crust" of this wintertime potpie. 

When this classic Irish Soda Bread is easy to make, you'll bake it all year round! The bread will keep, wrapped in plastic, for up to two weeks at room temperature.

The Jameson McCree is a delicious drink to make to celebrate Saint Patrick's Day.

This scrumptious, lightly spiked sundae is a fabulous mashup of Irish coffee and a brownie ice-cream sundae. We consider this dessert the best of both worlds.

Show your St. Patrick's Day spirit with this green, white, and orange snack (the colors of the Irish flag!). Cucumbers cut into clovers, plus carrot and celery sticks, are served with an easy yogurt-based ranch dip.

Creamy meets crunchy when a layer of velvety lime-flavored mascarpone-ricotta mousse and tart lime curd come together in a rustic pistachio shell in this Lime-Pistachio Tart. It may look like a cheesecake, but it is lighter and airier—a fitting finale to a spring get-together. Indeed, the green zest garnish lends itself quite nicely to a Saint Patrick's Day meal.

Mint invigorates roasted root vegetables like potatoes, carrots, leeks, and celery root, which is also known as celeriac, in this colorful side dish.

This St. Patrick's day, try a slice or two of this easy homemade soda bread for breakfast or serve it alongside Martha's Quick-Brined Corned Beef and Vegetables. This recipe balances the traditional flavors you'd expect, while also bringing something new—rye flour and wheat bran. Earthy, slightly sour, and a touch nutty, the combination of these two ingredients play perfectly off the classic soda bread flavors of currants and caraway seeds.

Serve this Potato-Leak Egg Bake with Hearty Pork Sausages.

We used Roland brand lemon-and lime-flavored cocktail cherries in this St. Patrick's Day party-ready Irish Whiskey Sour. They're available in most grocery stores and online. 

Irish coffee is the perfect finale to a St. Patrick's Day feast.