No Pinching Here: Five Green Dishes for St. Patrick’s Day!
Hello Everyone!
Looking for a green dish to help you celebrate St. Patrick’s Day? Look no further.
We’ve got five recipes that won’t get you pinched, all created by Real Women like you in our wonderful online cooking community!
Click through our slideshow to get recipes for these delicious green dishes and test your Irish food knowledge on each slide—answers are at the end, tell us how many you got right!
Smashed Peas & Mint
I love peas mostly fresh but frozen too. I even grew my own for awhile… so good. One day while visiting my parents, my mom (not a huge veggie fan) said let’s do something different with the peas… mashed… maybe?….it has been a family favorite since then…
INGREDIENTS
- 10 ounces 2 – 10 oz bags frozen peas
- 1 cup milk
- 4 ounces PHILADELPHIA Cream Cheese
- 5 tablespoons butter
- 2 tablespoons mint, finely chopped
DIRECTIONS
- Thaw and drain the peas
- In a medium saucepan roughly mash the peas; Add the butter, 1 tsp salt and 1/8 tsp ground pepper and cook over low heat
- Add the cream cheese and milk until well blended; Add the mint, stirring until bubbly
Green Beans and Sautéed Potatoes
Smoky bacon, hearty potatoes, fresh cut green beans—we’ll be honest, you’re going to want to make this for St. Paddy’s day and then some…
Fresh Cut Green Beans, Sauteed with Potatoes, Bacon and Onions
This recipes is one of my favorite summer fresh creations. Filled with flavorful memories of hot summer days in the garden with mom, the crisp cut green beans snap alongside the creamy texture of the sauteed potatoes and onions. Bacon rounds out the dish with its savory smoke flavor. The simple flavors of summer express themselves in perfect harmony in this basic side dish!
INGREDIENTS
- 1 pound fresh cut green beans
- 1 medium onion
- 4 medium potatoes
- 1/4 pound bacon
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 2 scallions
- 1/4 cup red wine vinegar
DIRECTIONS
- Cook bacon in a large cast iron skillet over medium heat until crisp, remove bacon and all but 1 tablespoon bacon fat
- melt 1 tablespoon butter in pan
- add potatoes and onions and cook covered, stirring frequently until potatoes are tender but not soft
- add cut green beans, remaining 1 tablespoon butter, cover and cook for 12-15 minutes, stirring occasionally
- salt and pepper to taste
- serve with red wine vinegar, garnish with chopped scallions
Lettuce Soup
Serve up a warm bowl of green soup. Fresh mint, broth, iceberg lettuce—your taste buds will thank you.
Minty Lettuce Soup
I love serving soup in a shot glass as an appetizer. You would never guess it’s lettuce. How many times have you had to throw out the lettuce because it turned brown in the crisper (or rotter as I call it)? Now you can put it to delicious use.
INGREDIENTS
- 2 heads iceburg lettuce, roughly chopped
- 1 cup onion, sliced
- 1/2 cup packed fresh mint
- 6 cups chicken broth
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 2 tablespoons all purpose flour
- 4 ounces PHILADELPHIA Cream Cheese
DIRECTIONS
- Put the lettuce, onion, mint and chicken broth in a large pot
- Bring to a boil then lower heat to medium and simmer for 25 minutes
- Let cool slightly then place in a blender for one minute and strain the soup. (You will have to do this in 2 stages to not fill the blender too much) set aside;
- Melt the butter in a medium pan over medium heat, add the flour and stir one minute
- Add the soup and stir to combine. Bring to a boil, stirring constantly
- Remove from heat, add the cream cheese and salt & pepper to taste
- Tip: You can serve this soup in shot glasses; add a sprinkle of parmesan cheese and a fresh mint leaf to decorate
- Tip: You can use any lettuce you have on hand and for a vegetarian meal you can use vegetable broth
Green Guacamole
Rich and creamy guacamole? Make an extra batch because you won’t be able to put this down!
Awesome Guacamole
Rich and creamy guacamole, hard to stop eating!
INGREDIENTS
- 8 ounces Philadelphia whipped cream cheese
- 3 Ripe avacadoes
- 1 packet of guacamole seasoning mix (your choice)
- 1 pinch garlic salt (season to your taste)
DIRECTIONS
- Peel and remove seed from avacadoes then mash in a bowl.
- In the same bowl mix in the whipped cream cheese.
- Stir in seasoning packet and garlic salt.
- Place in fridge for 20 min to bring out flavor.
- Serve with tortilla chips and enjoy!
Green Brownies
They’re rich with chocolate and they’re green? What’s the special ingredient that makes these brownies pinch-free? Find out…
Green tea Cream cheese Brownies
These brownies are rich and chocolaty, and absolutely fabulous! Green tea cream cheese mixtures make these brownies outstanding! A little bite is not enough. Every time I make these brownies, I put them as snack’s in my girls’ school lunches. After they come back from school, they tell me, ” Mommy, those brownies are very popular among my friends! Next time put more brownies in my lunch, PLEASE!!”
INGREDIENTS
- 5 ounces Philadelphia Cream Cheese, softened to room temperature
- 2 ounces sugar
- 2 teaspoons green tea powder
- 1 1/2 cups semisweet chocolate chips
- 2 eggs
- 1/2 cup white sugar
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 2 tablespoons water
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2/3 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
DIRECTIONS
- Preheat the oven to 325*F. Grease an 8×8 inch square pan.
- In a medium saucepan, combine the sugar, butter and water. Cook over medium heat until boiling. Remove from heat and stir in chocolate chips until melted and smooth. Mix in the eggs and vanilla. Combine the flour, baking soda and salt; stir into the chocolate mixture. Spread evenly into the prepared pan.
- Mix together softened cream cheese, sugar, green tea powder well.
- Drop Green tea cream cheese mixture onto sections the chocolate mixture and use a toothpick to draw the Green Tea mix across the brownie to create a look like marble.
- Bake for 25 to 30 minutes in the preheated oven, until brownies rise. Do not overbake! Cool in pan and cut into squares.
- Serve and enjoy!
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Enjoy cooking
Tammye Honey
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