35 Simple Memorial Day Recipes

Our greatest Memorial Day recipes! We have rounded up summer time salads, sides, dips, desserts, and extra—every part you want for a scrumptious cookout.

The unofficial begin of summer time is just some days away—it’s time to plan your Memorial Day menu!

I’ve rounded up our greatest Memorial Day recipes under. They embody recent appetizers, salads, facet dishes, drinks, desserts, and extra. They’d all be good for a Memorial Day cookout…and cookouts all summer time lengthy. I do know I’ll have many of those recipes on repeat this summer time. I hope you additionally discover some you like!

Memorial Day Appetizer Recipes

Antipasto Platter

Carry an Italian trip to your personal yard with this aperitivo-inspired platter! It’s loaded with marinated mozzarella balls, gigante beans, olives, and extra. Sip a bubbly Aperol spritz when you snack.

Caprese Skewers

The basic salad in bite-size kind! Use a mixture of cherry tomato colours to make these look extra-fun and festive.

Summer season Fruit Platter

Fruit + cheese = the simplest Memorial Day appetizer ever. And it’s scrumptious! Set it out on a cute platter with nuts, olives, and crackers, and friends will find it irresistible.

Mango Salsa

This recent, fruity tackle pico de gallo is ideal for early summer time. Serve with tortilla chips for dipping!

Guacamole

A crowd pleaser at any event, Memorial Day picnics included!

Simple Bruschetta

It’s summer time—carry on the tomatoes and basil! This basic Italian appetizer is considered one of my favourite methods to take pleasure in them. As a result of it’s so easy, it lets their recent flavors shine.

Summer season Pasta Salads

Simple Pasta Salad

What’s a summer time bbq and not using a pasta salad? This recipe is a reader favourite—it has over 500 5-star critiques!

Pesto Pasta Salad

When you (like me) can’t get sufficient basil pesto within the summertime, this recipe is for you! It’s pesto pasta in picnic kind—shiny inexperienced, herbaceous, and tremendous recent.

Italian Pasta Salad

My home made Italian dressing, olives, and pepperoncini pack this pasta salad with tangy, zesty taste.

Macaroni Salad

My twist on this nostalgic picnic dish is crammed with crunchy veggies and tangy dill pickles and tossed in a creamy dressing. Positively make it forward—the flavors get higher the longer it sits within the fridge!

Extra Memorial Day Aspect Dish Recipes

Grilled Corn on the Cob

Serve it slathered with butter or costume it up with elote fixings. No house on the grill? Make boiled corn on the cob as a substitute.

Greek Salad

Crammed with a refreshing jumble of crisp and juicy veggies, this basic salad tastes like summer time. You possibly can assemble it forward, however maintain the mint leaves till simply earlier than serving in order that they don’t wilt within the dressing.

Finest Potato Salad

This basic potato salad is creamy, pickle-y perfection! I exploit pickle brine within the dressing and add chopped dill pickles to the salad for an additional tangy pop. Tip: Combine two peeled and chopped laborious boiled eggs into the salad to make it extra-creamy.

Finest Broccoli Salad

A more energizing twist on the Midwest basic! As a substitute of utilizing the standard bacon, I high this reader favourite salad with smoky roasted nuts.

Cucumber Salad

I crave this candy and tangy salad all summer time lengthy. Fortunately for me, it couldn’t be simpler to make. Simply toss cucumbers and pink onions in a 3-ingredient dressing and high them off with recent herbs. Easy and scrumptious!

Mexican Road Corn Salad

This elote-inspired salad will get RAVES each time I carry it to a summer time gathering. Make it on Memorial Day weekend, and I assure that will probably be the star of any cookout you are taking it to!

Creamy Coleslaw

The key to nice coleslaw? A terrific home made coleslaw dressing! Mine is creamy, candy, and tangy, made with mayo, apple cider vinegar, maple syrup, and a little bit celery seed for savory depth of taste.

Purple Potato Salad

If creamy potato salad isn’t your factor, do this ultra-herby one as a substitute. L&L reader Tracy commented, “Husband will not be a potato salad fan. Made this and he LOVED it and I believe it’s my favourite ever.”

Avocado Salad

Okay, guacamole lovers—this avocado salad is the Memorial Day recipe for you! Tossed in a zesty lime dressing, it’s mainly a deconstructed guac with some chopped cucumbers thrown in for crunch.

Watermelon Feta Salad

This salad is my favourite recipe to make on a sizzling summer time day! The mix of juicy watermelon, cucumbers, salty feta, and mint is so cooling and refreshing.

Broccoli Slaw

A scrumptious mashup of coleslaw and broccoli salad! Make it forward in order that the crunchy broccoli matchsticks have time to marinate within the creamy dressing.

Grilled Greens

Can’t select between grilled corn and grilled zucchini? You don’t should! These colourful veggie skewers are a flavorful and festive addition to any summer time cookout. I like to serve them with a facet of tzatziki sauce.

Memorial Day Major Dishes

Finest Veggie Burger

Severely, the most effective ever. Sautéed mushrooms, tamari, balsamic, and mirin give these patties an unbeatable umami taste. Tip: Assemble them as much as a day forward, cowl, and refrigerate till you’re able to grill!

Simple Black Bean Burger

These one-bowl burgers are prepared in half-hour!

Portobello Mushroom Burger

Don’t underestimate humble mushroom caps! Grilled with balsamic and tamari, they turn out to be juicy, meaty, and savory—an ideal plant-based “patty.”

Mushroom Tacos

Not within the temper for warm canine or burgers? Make these mushroom tacos in your Memorial Day cookout! They’re tremendous easy, crammed with meaty, savory grilled mushrooms, avocado salsa, and pickled onions.

Summer season Drinks

Do-it-yourself Lemonade

Made with recent lemon juice and easy syrup, this home made lemonade is sooo significantly better than store-bought.

Purple Sangria

The proper cocktail for a crowd! Chill it in a single day for the most effective fruity taste.

Margarita

Margaritas at a summer time gathering are by no means a foul name. Maintain it basic with this recipe or make watermelon margaritas or strawberry margaritas for a enjoyable twist.

Mojitos

Backyard overrun with recent mint? Put it to work on this fizzy rum cocktail. L&L reader Elizabeth referred to as it the “greatest cocktail for a sizzling summer time day!”

Memorial Day Desserts

Strawberry Shortcake

You possibly can’t make a roundup of Memorial Day recipes and never embody strawberry shortcake! Different recent fruits can be fantastic right here too—strive including blueberries, blackberries, and even recent peaches.

Finest Do-it-yourself Brownies

Nobody will complain about brownies at a cookout. 🙂 These ones are chewy, fudgy, and full of wealthy chocolate taste.

Lemon Bars

Lemon desserts = the most effective summer time desserts! With a buttery shortbread crust and pucker-y lemon curd filling, these lemon bars are the most effective of the most effective.

Rhubarb Crisp

Memorial Day falls within the coronary heart of rhubarb season. Make this straightforward crisp to point out it off at its greatest! Tip: Don’t neglect the vanilla ice cream for serving. Its sweetness actually makes the tart rhubarb pop.

Do-it-yourself Vanilla Ice Cream

Do you could have a summer time bucket record? I hope making home made ice cream is on it. It’s straightforward to make with 5 fundamental substances, and it’s simply too good to overlook out on. I’m making some over Memorial Day weekend…you must too!