35 Simple Memorial Day Recipes

Our greatest Memorial Day recipes! We have rounded up summer season salads, sides, dips, desserts, and extra—all the pieces you want for a scrumptious cookout.

The unofficial begin of summer season 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 season lengthy. I do know I’ll have many of those recipes on repeat this summer season. I hope you additionally discover some you’re keen on!

Memorial Day Appetizer Recipes

Antipasto Platter

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

Caprese Skewers

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

Summer time Fruit Platter

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

Mango Salsa

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

Guacamole

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

Simple Bruschetta

It’s summer season—carry on the tomatoes and basil! This traditional Italian appetizer is certainly 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 time Pasta Salads

Simple Pasta Salad

What’s a summer season bbq with out a pasta salad? This recipe is a reader favourite—it has over 500 5-star evaluations!

Pesto Pasta Salad

Should you (like me) can’t get sufficient basil pesto within the summertime, this recipe is for you! It’s pesto pasta in picnic kind—vivid 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 Facet Dish Recipes

Grilled Corn on the Cob

Serve it slathered with butter or costume it up with elote fixings. No area on the grill? Make boiled corn on the cob as an alternative.

Greek Salad

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

Greatest Potato Salad

This traditional potato salad is creamy, pickle-y perfection! I take advantage of 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.

Greatest Broccoli Salad

A more energizing twist on the Midwest traditional! As an alternative of utilizing the standard bacon, I prime this reader favourite salad with smoky roasted nuts.

Cucumber Salad

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

Mexican Road Corn Salad

This elote-inspired salad will get RAVES at any time when I carry it to a summer season gathering. Make it on Memorial Day weekend, and I assure that it will likely be the star of any cookout you’re taking it to!

Creamy Coleslaw

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

Purple Potato Salad

If creamy potato salad isn’t your factor, do that ultra-herby one as an alternative. L&L reader Tracy commented, “Husband is just not 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 principally a deconstructed guac with some chopped cucumbers thrown in for crunch.

Watermelon Feta Salad

This salad is my favourite recipe to make on a scorching summer season 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 must! These colourful veggie skewers are a flavorful and festive addition to any summer season cookout. I like to serve them with a facet of tzatziki sauce.

Memorial Day Primary Dishes

Greatest Veggie Burger

Critically, the very best 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 canines or burgers? Make these mushroom tacos on your Memorial Day cookout! They’re tremendous easy, crammed with meaty, savory grilled mushrooms, avocado salsa, and pickled onions.

Summer time Drinks

Selfmade Lemonade

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

Purple Sangria

The right cocktail for a crowd! Chill it in a single day for the very best fruity taste.

Margarita

Margaritas at a summer season gathering are by no means a foul name. Preserve it traditional 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 scorching summer season day!”

Memorial Day Desserts

Strawberry Shortcake

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

Greatest Selfmade Brownies

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

Lemon Bars

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

Rhubarb Crisp

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

Selfmade Vanilla Ice Cream

Do you’ve a summer season bucket checklist? I hope making home made ice cream is on it. It’s straightforward to make with 5 primary substances, and it’s simply too good to overlook out on. I’m making some over Memorial Day weekend…you need to too!