Some people switch to a vegan lifestyle to be more healthy, and some people do it because of the ethical standards that they set for themselves. Did you know that if you have switched to a vegan lifestyle, you are saving the lives of at least 30 animals every year?
Yes, every person counts. However, switching to a vegan lifestyle should not lead to you missing out on delicious festival recipes. You can make modifications to the recipe to make it vegan.
Since St. Patrick’s day is just around the corner, many people have already started creating plans for the celebration, including the food they will serve at the festivities.
This festival marks an amalgamation of Irish culture, with all the countries celebrating the green holiday. Corned beef and lots of alcohol are the signatures for this festival.
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25 Delicious St. Patrick’s Day Vegan Recipes You’ll Love
This blog brings you the vegan versions of the famous St. Patrick’s Day recipes for you to enjoy without guilt.
1. Thai Green Curry Lentil Soup
Image and recipe by: Kitchen Treaty Recipes
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 30 min
Servings: 4
Number of Ingredients: 11
This Thai Green Curry Lentil soup is the perfect healthy recipe for a flavorful start to your celebratory dinner. It only takes about 30 minutes to prepare. The coconut milk in this recipe gives the soup a vibrant and creamy flavour.
2. Vegan Irish Soda Bread
Image and recipe by: Kitchen Treaty Recipes
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 35 min
Servings: 1 medium loaf
Number of Ingredients: 7
This recipe for the classic Irish bread for the traditional Irish holiday is dairy-free and vegan. The substitution of vegan ingredients in this bread does not cause significant changes to the taste of the bread. Leave the egg out of the recipe and use vegan buttermilk with vegan butter to flavour the bread.
3. Irish Champ
Image and recipe by: Simply Whisked
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 25 min
Servings: 6
Number of Ingredients: 5
Creamy vegan butter is a staple in many vegan recipes. This butter provides a rich flavour to even the most simple ingredients like the potato and green onions used in this recipe. A simple mashed potato recipe revamped with ingredients like coconut yogurt to make a great side for your healthy St.Patrick’s day dinner.
4. Edamame Vegan Mushroom Pasta Salad
Image and recipe by Cookilicious
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 20 min
Servings: 4
Number of Ingredients: 16
Pasta salads are one of the most popular salads all over the world. The pasta balances the flavor of the vegetables in the salad and, to be honest, makes them a lot more fun. Apart from the pasta, the prominent flavors in this recipe are edamame and mushrooms. Quick and easy to make, this is a great vegan dish for St. Patrick’s day.
5. Vegan Pesto Brown Rice with Sauted Greens
Image and recipe by: Pickles-n-Honey
Prep time: 5 mins
Cook time: 45 min
Servings: 6-8
Number of Ingredients: 12
Pesto is the best(o) in many recipes. Okay, we can say that it is pretty good(o). Do you see what I did there? (Hi! FRIENDS fans). Can’t find pasta in your kitchen, or just bored of it? Use the pesto in this brown rice recipe. Trust me. You will be coming back for more on this one.
6. Shepherds Pie
Image and recipe by: Down Shiftology
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 40 min
Servings: 6
Number of Ingredients: 18
Layers of deliciousness come together to make a traditional Irish Shepherd’s Pie recipe. Traditionally, the recipe has a base made up of ground lamb. However, you can swap the lamb with mushrooms and lentils to make it vegan.
7. Roasted Brussels Sprouts
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 20 min
Servings: 6
Number of Ingredients: 5
If you are looking for an easy side dish recipe with greens, the roasted Brussels sprouts are perfect for that. And they are also the perfect shade of green for St. Patrick’s day. So, Place it on the table, and you also have a green decoration (wink!!).
8. Creamy Vegan Potato Soup with Leeks
Image and recipe by: Munch meals by Janet
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 25 min
Servings: 4
Number of Ingredients: 14
This potato soup with leeks is an excellent celebratory appetiser for St. Patrick’s day. It uses very few ingredients, and you will not have to make a supermarket trip to prepare this recipe. Rich and creamy because of potatoes and the leeks add the perfect bit of crunch to make it hard for you to just stop at one serving.
10. Mashed Cauliflower Colcannon
Image and recipe by: Well Plated
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 25 min
Servings: 4
Number of Ingredients: 11
Generally, this Irish dish contains potatoes, but the potatoes switch with cauliflower and kale in this recipe. The swap ensures that the dish is low on fat and more on fiber. This change makes it a healthy St. Patrick’s day recipe.
10. Vegan Colcannon Bites
Image and recipe by: Healing Tomato
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 45 min
Servings: 12
Number of Ingredients: 15
If you want some small cute appetizers for your St. Patrick’s day dinner table, this bite-sized colcannon served on fillo shells is the perfect idea for that. They not only look cute but taste great too. You cannot get any more Irish with your dinner than adding colcannon to your menu, and if you are not ready for the total commitment, these are only small bites to start your healthy journey.
11. Vegan Colcannon Soup
Image and recipe by: vnutritionandwellness
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 40 min
Servings: 4
Number of Ingredients: 11
Turn the traditional Irish colcannon recipe into a soup with this experimental recipe and enjoy it differently. The recipe still includes potatoes with the addition of kale. This soup is a quick and easy recipe, and even your kids will enjoy it for sure.
12. Corned Beef
Image and recipe by Meet the Shannon
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 20 min
Number of Ingredients: 15
Traditionally, corned beef is a huge part of St. Patrick’s day. How do you include it in your celebration if you are vegan, though? This recipe answers the question but first, substitute the actual beef with Gardein and cook it the same way you cook the meat, and you have got yourself a perfect party recipe.
13. Cauliflower Colcannon
Image and recipe by: Meet the Shannons
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 10 min
Number of Ingredients: 13
This recipe is the modification of the traditional Irish colcannon cooked with potatoes. The new ingredient added is cauliflower. The rest of the ingredients remain more or less the same. The switch made to the recipe makes it suitable for people on low-carb diets.
14. Dublin Coddle with Vegan Irish Sausages
Image and recipe by: Fat-Free Vegan
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 1 hour 15 min
Servings: 4
Number of Ingredients: 8
This recipe is a stew made with vegan sausages in Irish glee. The pork from the traditional cobble recipe swaps with vegan sausages, and the bacon is removed from the recipe entirely. There is also an addition of alcohol in the recipe in the form of dark beer. This addition gives the recipe an authentic touch.
15. Vegan Irish Potato Pie
Image and recipe by: This Wife Cooks
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 45 min
Servings: 1 pie
Number of Ingredients: 11
With the overwhelming amount of potato recipes on this blog, one thing is for sure true; the Irish are a big fan of potatoes. This potato pie is a delicious recipe to add to your St. Patrick’s day celebration as anything edible that you can cut into slices screams celebration.
16. Whole grain Mustard Mashed Potatoes
Image and recipe by: This Wife Cooks
Cook time: 30 min
Servings: 6-8
Number of Ingredients: 5
This recipe is a flavorful side dish for your healthy St. Patrick’s day celebration with a vegan theme. The recipe is classic mashed potato, but one fantastic ingredient is added to the recipe to increase the flavour tremendously. That ingredient is whole grain Dijon mustard.
17. Vegan Corned Beef
Image and recipe by: The hidden veggies
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 90 min
Servings: 4
Number of Ingredients: 11
This recipe uses meat substitutes like tofu, seitan, or tempeh to make the recipe taste like the authentic corned beef recipe. You can serve it with cabbage and potatoes or add it to sandwiches. It is delicious in any mentioned form.
18. Casserole Plate
Image and recipe by: Dianne’s-Vegan Kitchen
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 30 min
Servings: 6
Number of Ingredients: 13
This casserole recipe uses vegan stout to cook cabbage and seitan. The casserole recipes are always effortless to make and quick, and this recipe is no exception. The stout-based sauce cooks the seitan, and it is added to the casserole to add the traditional meat flavor despite the recipe being vegan.
19. Corned Jackfruit
Image and recipe by Fried Dandelions
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 30 min
Number of Ingredients: 18
In the war era, rationing caused the introduction of some new recipes. This jackfruit delicacy is one such recipe. The recipe takes inspiration from the corned beef recipe, but it uses jackfruit instead to make it vegan. It is also much faster as you just have to put the jackfruit in brine overnight. Then, you can serve it with roasted vegetables.
20. Irish Hash
Image and recipe by My Judy the Foodie
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 18 min
Servings: 4
Number of Ingredients: 10
This recipe is a quick and easy skillet recipe that you can make when you do not have a lot of time on your hands. You can use all the vegetables available on your hands, but traditionally cabbage and tomatoes are something to add.
21. Vegan Seitan Corned Beef
Image and recipe by Veganosity
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 50 min
Servings: 8
Number of Ingredients: 15
The fantastic chefs featured on this blog will ensure that the vegan population does not miss the flavor of corned beef this St. Patrick’s day. Especially the people who just turned vegan and had this dish as a staple on their menu every year during the celebration of the green holiday.
22. Vegan Irish Stew
Image and recipe by: Dianne’s Vegan Kitchen
Cook time: 45 min
Servings: 6
Number of Ingredients: 18
This recipe is a gluten-free option on top of being a vegan recipe. This recipe is also loaded with vegetables to make it even more healthy. You can serve it with Irish soda bread. You can also choose to simmer the stew in vegetable broth or stout as you wish.
23. Vegan Irish Potatoes
Image and recipe by: Plant Power Couple
Prep time: 1 hour 20 min
Servings: 36
Number of Ingredients: 6
This recipe has a classic flavour of coconut, cream, and sweet notes. These are the perfect small bite appetisers for the St. Patrick’s day celebrations. This recipe has a distinct flavour and even a more appetising appearance. You won’t believe it, but this recipe also has an addition of vanilla extract and cinnamon. This recipe’s destiny is to be a complete flavor bomb.
24. Guinness Cheesy Bread with Seitan Corned Beef and Sauteed Cabbage
Image and recipe by: Vegan Travel Eats
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 15 min
Number of Ingredients: 10
This recipe includes many recipes combined in a single dish to create a phenomenal Irish treat. Guinness beer makes vegan beers used in this recipe, and the bread is topped with sauteed cabbage and Seitan to substitute the meat.
25. Easy Vegan Irish Stew
Image and recipe by The Fiery Vegetarian
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 20 min
Servings: 4-6
Number of Ingredients: 14
This recipe for classic Irish stew is almost similar to the original recipe but has a few more key ingredients. These are textured seitan and tender vegetables with the flavour of umami. The broth for the simmer uses the Guinness flavour. This stew is also a quick recipe as it is ready in just half an hour.
Most people like to kick back on diets at the festivals, but it does become too much when there is some festival every month.
The only reasonable choice you can make at such times is to blend healthy with delicious. Change the recipes to suit your diets better, and you can enjoy the festivals guilt-free.
Since it can be hard to be so inventive on your own, the recipes on this blog will be of immense help.
