25 Memorial Day Recipes

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Memorial Day is here! To help you with your picnic or outdoor bbq meal planning, I have included 25 easy, mouthwatering recipes to help you celebrate the start of summer!

Now I’ve added a few bonus recipes and photos as well for your Memorial Day outdoor grilling barbecue. I know you and your family and friends will love these easy and delicious recipes.

Memorial Day across most of the U.S. signifies the start of summer. However, Memorial Day in South Texas is hot. Our summer usually starts around the beginning of May but we still enjoy celebrating Memorial Day.

Living in a military city like San Antonio, the Memorial Day holiday takes on even more significance since we remember our military personnel who gave their lives while serving their country.

Usually we celebrate Memorial Day with family and friends barbecuing by the swimming pool, and maybe enjoying an ice cold beverage, like one of our 20 Refresh Mocktails for Summer. Many other people will go to the lake, or a local park.

No matter which Memorial Day Recipes you love, whether they are appetizers, salads, main dishes, sides, or desserts, you are certain to find one or more recipes that the whole family will love.

Memorial Day Appetizer Recipes

We love to have appetizers or snacks for Memorial Day. I’m sharing a few of our favorites whether for a picnic or outside by the pool.  I hope you love these appetizers as much as my family does.

Spicy Cilantro Lime Summer Slaw Recipe

This coleslaw is perfect for barbecues, great on tacos, or an addition to any meal. Made with slaw mix, corn, jalapenos, red peppers, onion, cilantro, lime juice, and oil, it's quick to throw together.

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Watermelon Salsa Recipe

Light and refreshing Watermelon Salsa, with watermelon, strawberries, herbs, honey, and jalapeño, offers a sweet and spicy summer appetizer for Cinco De Mayo, or a picnic, party, or potluck!

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Bloody Mary Deviled Eggs Recipe

Why settle for ordinary deviled eggs when you could make these Bloody Mary Deviled Eggs? A fun Bloody Mary twist to this party appetizer, garnished with celery leaves, and green olives!

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Mango Habanero Wings Recipe

Mango Habanero Wings are sweet and spicy chicken wings with a Mango Habanero glaze made with Mango Habanero Salsa and peach preserves. Serve this appetizer at your next party.

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Jalapeno Parmesan Crisps

These amazing Jalapeno Parmesan Crisps are crispy bites of baked parmesan, provolone cheese, and a jalapeno slice, that make a delicious low carb, Keto snack, or topper for soup.

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Memorial Day Salad Recipes

We love cool, refreshing salads to cool off on Memorial Day. They are perfect on a hot, summer day.

Grilled Peach Tomato Salad with Mozzarella

Grilled Peach Tomato Salad is not just a beautiful summer salad, it's full of fresh flavors, sweet, and tangy with interesting contrasting textures.  The simple honey dressing compliments the sweet fresh peaches while the juicy cherry tomatoes, lime juice, and seasoning add balance.

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Blueberry Gorgonzola Farmer’s Salad

Blueberry Gorgonzola Farmer’s Salad is a crisp summer salad made with fresh Florida blueberries, corn, and tomatoes and creamy gorgonzola cheese with grilled chicken that is perfect for lunch or dinner.

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Apple Walnut Cranberry Salad

This Apple Walnut Cranberry Salad includes a Mixed Green Spinach Salad with Green Apples, Dried Cranberries, Walnuts, and Gorgonzola Cheese. This salad explodes with flavor.

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Cucumber Tomato Salad (With a Mexican Twist)

This Cucumber Tomato Salad with sliced cucumbers, fresh tomatoes, sliced red onions, in a red wine vinaigrette, includes a Mexican twist with the addition of crumbled cotija cheese, Mexican oregano, and chopped cilantro. It makes a truly delicious and refreshing summer salad!

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Ramen Noodle Salad Recipe (with Broccoli Slaw)

This Ramen Noodle Salad is a make ahead cole slaw, made with broccoli slaw and ramen noodles, that is perfect for a side dish for a potluck, bbq, or picnic.

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Mexican Street Corn Salad Recipe (Elote Deconstructed)

Mexican Street Corn Salad Recipe is deconstructed Elote or Mexican Street Corn, a popular Mexican street food, served in a bowl, instead of as corn on the cob, and covered with a fantastic chili lime cream sauce and cotija cheese.

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Memorial Day Main Dish Recipes

For your main dish, whether you are grilling fajitas, or enjoying a cool, make-ahead, casual chicken salad, or using your slow cooker to escape the summer heat, you are sure to love these Flavor Mosaic favorite summer main dishes. 

Barbecue Chicken Kabobs

These grilled Barbecue Chicken Kabobs and vegetables are skewered, covered in a spice rub, and then brushed with a sweet, spicy, smoky, and tangy BBQ sauce that is sure to be a hit at your summer BBQ or picnic.

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Baked BBQ Chicken Recipe

This easy Oven Baked BBQ Chicken makes a sweet, tangy, smoky, sticky barbecue chicken that is perfect for a summer party or dinner, or when it is too hot or cold to grill outside.

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Summer Chicken Salad Sandwich

This Summer Chicken Salad Sandwich is creamy and crunchy and makes a great lunch or picnic sandwich.

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Grilled Hamburger Recipe – The Seasoned Mom

A summertime classic, you just can't beat a juicy, flavorful grilled hamburger recipe! Just 5 ingredients and a few minutes over a flame!

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Tex-Mex Beef Fajitas

This Tex-Mex Beef Fajitas recipe, made with skirt steak or flank steak, and served with sauteed onions, red and green peppers, makes an easy, delicious, smoky, spicy and flavorful dinner.

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Slow Cooker Country Style Boneless Pork Ribs Recipe

Slow Cooker Country Style Boneless Pork Ribs are sweet, tangy, smoky and delicious whether you make them as ribs or shred them for tacos or sandwiches.

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Memorial Day Side Dish Recipes

The summer side dishes for Memorial Day are probably my favorites. Whether it is broccoli salad, potato, or pasta salad, you and your family and friends will love these fresh, flavorful sides to go with your BBQ or picnic meal.

Broccoli Salad

Broccoli Salad is a perfect cold summer salad when trying to beat the summer heat by chillin' at a backyard barbecue, picnic, or potluck.

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Green Bean Potato Salad with Sun-Dried Tomato Pesto

This amazingly easy, 5-ingredient, gluten-free Green Bean Potato Salad with Sun-Dried Tomato Pesto is perfect for a picnic or potluck side dish.

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Easy Picnic Potato Salad

This Easy Picnic Potato Salad recipe makes your classic American potato salad that is perfect to take to a picnic or potluck this summer.

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Texas Barbecue Loaded Baked Potato Salad

Texas Barbecue Loaded Baked Potato Salad is a creamy potato salad dressed up like a Texas style loaded baked potato topped with barbecue sauce similar to what you would find in one of our local Texas barbecue restaurants.

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Best Classic Macaroni Salad Recipe

This cool, creamy Classic Macaroni Salad base recipe, can be easily customized with ham and colorful vegetables, for the Best Classic Macaroni Salad ever, and will be the most popular side dish at your summer BBQ or picnic!

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Buffalo Chicken Pasta Salad Recipe

This Buffalo Chicken Pasta Salad is a tangy, creamy pasta salad with chicken, shell pasta, celery, carrots, and tomatoes, covered in a creamy sauce made with spicy Buffalo Wing Sauce, like Frank's Hot Sauce, and ranch dressing with bleu cheese crumbles.

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Memorial Day Dessert Recipes

Fresh fruit Desserts for a hot summer day like Memorial Day really liven up the celebration. Whether you use fresh blueberries, peaches, or strawberries, you will find a summer dessert that you will love!

Blueberry Crumb Bars Recipe

These Blueberry Crumb Bars are made with sweet fresh blueberries and a buttery crumb topping make a perfect sweet treat for a snack or dessert.

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Strawberry Cheesecake Salad Recipe

This Strawberry Cheesecake Salad is like a strawberry cheesecake in a bowl and makes a delicious and easy no bake dessert.

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Peach Cobbler Dump Cake Recipe

An ultra‑easy, 3‑ingredient summer dessert, this Peach Cobbler Dump Cake, or Peach Dump Cake for short, is a no‑fuss, flavor-packed crowd‑pleaser summer dessert for a BBQ, potluck, or picnic.

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Blueberry Dump Cake

This Blueberry Dump Cake is the most delicious and easiest 3-ingredient dessert you will ever make! Sweet blueberries are baked with a scrumptious cobbler topping. Top it with ice cream and a to-die-for blueberry sauce for an easy dessert that is perfect for any occasion!

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Oreo Fluff Recipe

Oreo Fluff, an easy 5-ingredient no-bake Oreo cookie salad, is a sweet and creamy dessert and is popular at holiday parties.

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Southern Banana Pudding Parfaits

Easy Southern Banana Pudding Parfaits served in mason jars make a yummy and fun portable dessert.

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That wraps up our round up of Memorial Day recipes. I hope have found a few that you will try for the holiday. If you did try them, be sure to rate the recipe and leave a comment to let us know how you liked it. 

Have a Happy Memorial Day Weekend everyone!