Kosher Irish Recipes for St. Patrick’s Day

Here’s a menu of Kosher Irish recipes for St. Patrick’s Day to please the most finicky vegan/vegetarian Hebrew leprechauns.  When Googling Kosher Irish recipes for St. Patrick’s Day, you have to get creative.  Remember the staples of the classic Irish diet: cabbage, oats, potatoes and Irish whiskey.  Key dishes are coffee, potato soup, corned beef and cabbage, and soda bread.  You can also Google “Irish recipes” for a list of authentic dishes, then reGoogle them individually with Kosher in front.  Lastly, remember that everything doesn’t have to be green for St. Patrick’s Day, just delicious and fun.  Slainte!

Iced Irish Coffee (contains alcohol)

Potato Lima Soup

Corned Beef and Cabbage

Irish Soda Bread

Irish Car Bomb Cake (named for the drink, contains alcohol)

Meatless Monday: Vegan Irish Recipes for St. Patrick’s Day

In honor of St. Patrick’s Day, I tried my hand at writing a limerick as a prelude to the vegan Irish recipes I’ve collected for you.

There once was a wannabe vegan,

Who'd quit her unwholly meat eatin’.

She took up with nut cheese,

Shed, too, eggs, if you please,

And replaced White Cheddar Cheez Its with Garden Herb Wheat Thins. – Belinda’s Vegan Limerick

Irish Coffee (alcoholic beverage)

Apple Mash

Irish Pizza

White Bean and Cabbage Stew

Carrot Scuffins with Lemon Cashew Cream

Slainte!

Sugar Free Irish Recipes for St. Patrick’s Day

On St. Patrick’s Day and always, as you bless your family with these sugar free Irish recipes,

“May your spoon rise up to sweeten you

May the carbs always be at your back

May Splenda and Equal warm your face

and stevia fall soft upon your meals

and until you eat again

May agave hold you in the calm of your hand.” – Belinda’s Sugar Free Irish Blessing

“May the road rise up to meet you.
May the wind always be at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your face,
and rains fall soft upon your fields.
And until we meet again,
May God hold you in the palm of His hand.” – An Old Irish Blessing

Irish Cream Latte

Potato Leek Soup

Dublin Coddle with Irish Sausages

Buttermilk Oatcakes

Spotted Dog (Soda Bread)

Gluten Free Irish Recipes for St. Patrick's Day

When Irish eyes are smiling, they might be enjoying these traditional yet gluten free recipes for St. Patrick’s Day.  Start with quick and easy hard cider, a beer alternative.  Feast on the sumptuous savory flavor of Irish Stew, with rosemary and portobellini mushrooms.  Astound your family and friends with the magical taste of Corned Beef & Cabbage, seasoned with fennel, paprika and tamari.  Tea time?  Break a wee bit of Ireland’s beloved Brack Bread, featuring lemon peel, raisins and candied ginger.  Or maybe you’ll fancy a farl (triangle) of Treacle Tea Cake, splashed with molasses and ginger ale.  Whichever you choose, your taste buds will have found the pot o’ gold of gluten free Irish recipes for St. Patrick's Day.  Slainte!   

10 Minute Hard Cider (alcoholic beverage)

Irish Stew

Corned Beef & Cabbage

Barm Brack Bread

Treacle Tea Cake (Soda Bread)

Dairy Free Vegan Vegetarian Irish Recipes for St. Patrick's Day

Image credit Sean MacEntee

St. Patrick’s Day is special for me.  I get to wear my green shirt.  It’s a tshirt specially bought for the occasion when I was teaching.   On a Kelly green field rest a shamrock over a globe in reversed fading shades of green to white.  Between them are the words “think green” in white.  This shirt unites two parts of myself that I’m very proud of, Irish and Earth Mother.   

My mother was born a McMickle.  The Mc is Irish, as opposed to Mac, which is Scot, but they've mixed a bit.  I haven’t met any McMickles beyond my mother and her siblings, but her redheaded brother is said to be the spitting image of their father, and all four of the lot have their stubborn moments.  I don’t know my clan’s tartan, but a wee bit of time with me will eliminate any doubt that I’m Irish.  I’m a tall, hourglass-shaped, natural redhead lass with freckles all about.   Humble Heaney poetry, rural life, the sea, Spring, and the sweet notes of bagpipe and flute are all dear to my heart.  Kissing, dancing, poetry, jokes and storytelling are some of my best talents.  Just don’t get me riled up.*wink*  Last but not least, luck seems to accompany me throughout my adventures.

We didn’t really celebrate our Irish heritage in our cooking or much else.  The mere fact of knowing Irish blood runs in our veins seemed to be enough.  Today, I’m excited to share these blog-sourced dairy free Irish recipes with you in honor of Ireland and her people.  From beverage to dessert, they’re sure to please one and all.  Slainte!

"The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine." - Seamus Heaney

Irish Cream (alcoholic beverage)

Soda Bread with Currants and Caraway Seeds

Colcannon Soup

Shepherd’s Pie

Leprechaun Mint Ice Cream Parfaits