Red, White and Blue is Easy to Do!

Simple / Last Minute Patriotic Dishes

Fried Chicken with Red, White, and Blue Dipping Sauce

Pick up fried or grilled chicken from your local grocer or restaurant, and add some simple patriotic themed sauces

• Red sauce ideas: Ketchup, salsa, barbecue sauce
• Blue sauce ideas: Blueberry barbecue sauce
• White sauce ideas: Ranch, blue cheese dressing, greek vanilla yogurt, simple aioli

Healthy Fruits

Since barbecues aren’t typically known for being super healthy, fresh fruit is a simple way to add in color and save those calories

• Fruit kebabs, fruit salads, açaí bowls:
  • Cut up fresh strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, blackberries, banana, pineapple
  • Shredded coconut
  • Açaí packets
• Keep it really simple with a pre-packaged mix of red and blue fruits from your local grocer or farmers market, add shredded coconut)

Patriotic Pizzas –

• Premade doughs like naan, a premade pizza crust, or english muffins
  • Add tomatoes, red pepper or eggplant
  • I made a pizza with goat cheese, sun dried tomatoes, and blueberries..yes, blueberries. It was surprisingly delicious especially mixed with the goat cheese, (though I probably should have left off the arugula since it took away from the patriotic vibes)
• Keep it really simple with a frozen pizza and simply add tomato, red peppers, pepperoni, eggplant, or blueberries (if you’re feeling daring, though this probably works best with feta or goat cheese)
• Keep it really really simple and get a frozen that already has pepperoni or tomatoes on it to cover the red and white and just add eggplant

Patriotic Nachos

This one is super simple and fast to make!

• Patriotic Nachos made with blue corn tortilla chips, white corn tortilla chips, red salsa, and sour cream
• Keep it really simple and skip the white corn tortilla chips and just use the sour cream

Patriotic Desserts

These can be as simple or as fancy as you want them to be:

• Cookies:
  • Pre-made red white and blue cookies
  • Instant cookies with red, white, and blue candies and sprinkles
• Cakes, Cupcakes, Pastries:
  • Use red, white, and blue frostings
  • Buy shortcake rounds or an angel cake and add whipped cream and fresh strawberries, blueberries, blackberries or raspberries
• Pies
  • Pick up a blueberry pie and add strawberries and whipped cream
  • Or a strawberry or cherry pie and add blueberries and whipped cream
• Ice Cream
  • Roll ice cream sandwiches in red and blue sprinkles
  • Take vanilla ice cream from the carton, scoop out, and blend in blueberries or strawberries, then re-freeze

• Keep it really simple with vanilla and/or strawberry ice cream with blueberries
  • Vanilla and blueberry ice cream with strawberries (and never forget the whipped cream)
• Keep it really really simple and buy some snacks in red, white and blue packaging