18 Vegan Irish Recipes for St. Patrick's Day (2024)

Saint Patrick’s Day will be here before you know it! Celebrate by cooking up some delicious and unique Vegan Irish Recipes. These 18 recipes have a little something for everyone. You’ll find main dishes, desserts, and drinks.

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Saint Patrick’s Day is March 17! For me, Saint Patrick’s Day is always the day when I start to get excited about spring. These vegan Irish recipes are perfect for preparing for a St. Patrick’s Day feast and introduce fresh spring ingredients that are welcome after the cold months of winter.

In this round-up, you’ll find everything from main dishes to appetizers, loaves of bread, desserts, and drinks that will hopefully bring you the luck of the Irish this year!

Vegan Irish Appetizers and Breads

Celebrate March 17 with these simple-to-make appetizers and bread. Some of these recipes are traditional Irish recipes made vegan, while some have a hint of green and shamrock inspiration!

Vegan Irish Soda Bread

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This traditional Irish vegan soda bread is just in time for your St. Patrick’s Day celebration! This quick bread uses baking soda and vegan buttermilk to create a crusty outside and warm and fluffy inside!

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Easy No-Knead Beer Bread

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A crusty, no-knead 5-ingredient bread made with stout beer. Sweet, delicious, healthy, and nutritious bread with a bit of prickliness.

Shamrock Veggie Skewers

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Whether you’re looking for a fun way to present St. Patrick’s Day dips, or you’d love to make your kids a healthy but festive after-school snack, these Shamrock skewers are easy and adorable!

Traditional Irish Potato Farls

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This traditional Irish Potato Farls recipe is easy and made with just 4 simple ingredients. Also known as potato bread or cakes, Farls are a tasty classic breakfast from Ireland. Perfect for St. Patrick’s Day or any day of the year.

Vegan Irish Main Dishes

Do you need a hearty, healthy Irish dish to make for your family? These vegan recipes are full of flavor! From hearty stew to vegan corned beef, and everything in between, these traditional Irish recipes made vegan will not disappoint!

Vegan Irish Stew

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A thick and hearty vegan Irish stew with traditional flavors that’s so easy to make! It’s the perfect meal for St. Patrick’s Day or any day you want a stick-to-your-bones kind of meal!

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Vegan Shepherd’s Pie

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This warm and comforting vegan lentil shepherd’s pie is layered with a hearty and rich mushroom and lentil base topped with cauliflower mashed potatoes. It’s a healthy, filling meal for the whole family!

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Vegan Corned Beef

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This vegan corned beef is easy to make at home and perfect for your St. Patrick’s Day celebration! Tofu is simmered in a smoky marinade and baked until firm and crispy on the outside.

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Green Pea and Mint Soup

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This Green Pea and Mint Soup is an awesomely delicious combination of flavors. It instantly reminds you of a spring breeze.

Savory Irish Vegan Hand Pies

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These easy vegan savory hand pies are perfect to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day. They are warm and crispy, stuffed with potatoes, cabbage, tempeh, onions, and carrots!

Vegan Colcannon Soup

This Vegan Colcannon Soup is a twist on the Irish classic. This creamy soup is filled with potatoes, kale, and fresh herbs for a nutritious, gluten-free pot perfect for a St. Patrick’s Day celebration!

Vegan Irish Potato Pie

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This classic Irish potato pie with Yukon Gold potatoes and vegan butter is easy to make and ultra comforting!

Dublin Coddle with Vegan Sausages

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Also known as Bangers and Mash, this hearty vegan Irish Sausage with potatoes will make you feel like you’re taking a bite of the real thing!

Vegan Irish Drinks and Desserts

It wouldn’t be St. Patrick’s Day without some spirits. A few drinks for the adults and one for the kids. Plus, a few green desserts for the kids in all of us!

Vegan Irish Cream

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This vegan Irish cream is authentic to the classic Bailey’s dairy-free drink. Made with coconut cream and Irish whiskey and sweetened with coconut sugar, it’s a delicious drink to enjoy on the rocks or in your coffee!

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Vegan Irish Coffee with Coconut Cream

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Dairy-free and delicious! This Traditional Irish Coffee is topped with coconut cream for the ultimate vegan St. Patrick’s Day indulgence.

Vegan Shamrock Shake

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A vegan shamrock shake that’s creamy, minty, chocolatey, and way healthier than the original. It’s a quick, easy dessert that’s done in 5 minutes and only needs 7 ingredients.

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Vegan Matcha Cookies

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Soft and chewy vegan matcha cookies with a light and buttery crumb are simple to make and a delicious treat! The earthy flavor of the matcha is refreshing and light. Enjoy with some warm tea for a mid-afternoon escape!

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Vegan Matcha Pound Cake

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Rich, moist, and classic with a twist, this Vegan Matcha Pound Cake has the perfect texture!

Vegan Chocolate Guinness Cake

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Vegan Chocolate Guinness Cake is perfectly moist, rich, and dark, with malty, deep, complex richness.

I hope you found some Vegan St. Patrick’s Day recipes you’d like to try!

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FAQs

What is a popular Irish dish eaten on St. Patrick's Day? ›

Of course, corned beef and cabbage still pops up on many a dinner table come St. Patrick's Day. According to The Complete Irish Pub Cookbook, traditionally, the brining liquid included is Saltpeter—a bactericide that helps produce that ultra-pigmented pink color.

What is a true Irish meal? ›

Colcannon and champ

Colcannon is a classic, comforting mash of potatoes, cabbage (or kale) and butter (or cream), flavoured with spring onions. Champ is a similar, mashed potato favourite, flavoured with spring onions, milk and butter. Try making your own... Colcannon or champ made with mustard or celeriac.

What color was originally associated with St Patricks Day? ›

GOING GREEN

But the color that people originally associated with St. Patrick was blue! (Some ancient Irish flags even sport this color.)

What is the Irish dinner for St Patricks Day? ›

In Ireland, cabbage and bacon is a classic St. Patrick's Day dish. When Irish immigrants came to America, beef was the most widely available protein so to preserve it, they created corned beef. This recipe is simple — braise beef brisket with carrots, onions, potatoes, cabbage and pickling spices.

What is a traditional Irish St. Patrick Day dinner? ›

We've all come to know and love the traditional Irish foods eaten on St. Patrick's Day. You know the menu: corned beef, cabbage and potatoes.

What is Ireland's signature dish? ›

Believed to have been a staple of Irish cuisine since around the year 1800, heart-warming homemade stew remains a firm favourite to this day. To many across the country, Irish stew is the national dish of Ireland. The methods and flavour of an Irish stew vary from person to person and have evolved over the years.

What are 3 traditional foods of Ireland? ›

By the 21st century, much traditional Irish cuisine was being revived. Representative dishes include Irish stew, bacon and cabbage, boxty, brown bread (as it is referred to in the South) or soda bread (predominantly used in Ulster), coddle, and colcannon.

What is a typical St. Patrick's Day drink? ›

Sip on green beer, Irish coffee, Baileys and more — cheers! Nothing says St. Patrick's Day like a pint of Guinness or a frosty glass of green beer. While there's nothing wrong with keeping things simple, it's also fun to get creative with your drink menu.

Is corn beef Irish? ›

Corned beef is not an Irish national dish, and the connection with Saint Patrick's Day specifically originates as part of Irish-American culture, and is often part of their celebrations in North America. Corned beef was used as a substitute for bacon by Irish immigrants in the late 19th century.

What does the Irish phrase Erin go bra mean? ›

Patrick's Day, people turn to their dictionary to look up Erin go bragh, which means “Ireland forever.” The original Irish phrase was Erin go brách (or go bráth), which translates literally as “Ireland till doomsday.” It's an expression of loyalty and devotion that first appeared in English during the late 18th-century ...

What happens if you wear red on St Patty's day? ›

In the context of St Patrick's day, Red means nothing at all, though red used to be the color of the international workers movement, coopted by the Communist Party. The Irish flag shows green and orange to symbolize a united Ireland that would include the Catholic majority and, treated as equals, the Protestant north.

What is the national flower of Ireland? ›

Ireland. We bet you could guess this one — the shamrock is Ireland's national flower. A three-leafed plant, the shamrock comes from an old tale of St. Patrick (it is said that he used its unique design to explain the trinity).

What is the most iconic Irish dish? ›

Irish stew: This is the dish Irish people are most likely to roll out for St. Patrick's Day celebrations. Hearty chunks of lamb are slow-cooked in a rich gravy with onion, potatoes, carrot and parsley. Coddle is a traditional Dublin stew with sausages, onion, potato and bacon – or rashers as they're known locally.

What is Irish boiling bacon? ›

This one calls for whole loin bacon, a British Isles export which is cooked along with the cabbage, sliced before serving, and paired with a creamy parsley sauce. Unlike American bacon, Irish bacon is made from the back of the pig instead of the belly and is much leaner than streaky bacon.

What is Irish bacon? ›

Irish bacon is traditionally made from the back of the pig as opposed to the pork belly commonly used in American bacon. In this sense it is more similar to Canadian bacon; both Canadian and Irish bacon are referred to as back bacon but the Irish variety has more fat and often cut into a round shape.

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