Best Samhain recipes for the Celtic feast! Enjoy delicious autumn harvest recipes and sweet desserts. We collected more than 25 recipe suggestions for comforting and tasty meals.
Many traditional Samhain recipes are still around for modern day cooks. These are easy recipes with simple pantry ingredients that probably you have at your home.
Celebrate the end of harvest with these delicious recipes!
The ancient Celts ate a diet of primarily dairy, fish, vegetables, grains, nuts, fresh and dried berries and fruits, herbs, eggs and meats such as lamb, beef and chicken.
You can find traditional Samhain recipes, as well as adapted recipes with ingredients available in European cuisine nowadays.
The modern Halloween celebration originated from Celtic Samhain (pronounced sow-in) festival.
Celts lived more than 2000 years ago on the territory of present Ireland, United Kingdom and north of France.
They celebrated New Year on the 1st of November. In the one hand, this is a time of the year that marks the end of harvesting. On the other hand, starts the dark time of the year, often associated with human death.
They believed that in the night bounds of the other world is dimmed. Celts lit bonfires and cooked dinner with autumn produce. They also left food for their lost relatives that returned to Earth that night as ghosts.
This colcannon recipe is one traditional Irish food to try. It turned out best mashed potatoes I ever had! Simple mashed potatoes with sauteed kale and garlic, great and filling side dish. Moreover, colcannon is ultimate St Patrick's day food!
Warming Soups
Cosy and warming soups are essential for this dark and cold time. Pumpking and carrot soups also add brightness and colours to the table!
Beef barley soup with mushrooms is simple cozy soup to get you warm and full. Vegetables with beef, barley and mushrooms cooked together, create delicious and aromatic soup.
Roasted Chicken and vegetables is a winner family dinner for holidays or weekends. It is easy to prepare a tasty one pan dinner in few hours, using high heat method.
Irish beef stew is incredibly rich and flavorful comfort dish. Simple beef stew recipe with Guinness. Perfect Irish dinner to enjoy with your family and friends.
Honey roasted parsnips is one of our favorite dishes from now! So easy to make, sweet sticky baked parsnips are great as a side dish. Sweet and delicious.
Beautiful French apple tart is one of my favorite apple dessert recipes to make during the fall. Short crust pastry shell, filled with homemade apple jam, with apple slices that arranged liked rose and baked with cinnamon.
Apple Oatmeal Bread is one of our sugar free recipes to try. You can use our applesauce recipe to make this apple bread. It delivers great flavor and apple chunks will make it more moist.
So pleased to see a post about Samhain. This traditional Celtic festival seems to be mostly forgotten these days. Love all of the recipes and thank you for including a couple of mine.
So pleased to see a post about Samhain. This traditional Celtic festival seems to be mostly forgotten these days. Love all of the recipes and thank you for including a couple of mine.