40+ Purple Foods for a Color Party

From well-known purple foods like blackberries and eggplant, to lesser known dishes like purple rice and ube, you’re guaranteed to find a little inspiration here! There are plenty of foods ranging from deep purple in color to a light violet color.

The BEST Purple Food Ideas

Why not whip up this sweet and savory Blackberry Goat Cheese appetizer for your next party?  This elegant appetizer is easy to make with just 5-ingredients!

Blackberry Goat Cheese Appetizer

This delicious Italian Radicchio Salad is dressed in a creamy lemon-vinaigrette and tossed with buttery calvestrano olives, tasty breadcrumbs and nutty parmesan cheese. And, a special tip ensures that your radicchio won't be bitter!

Radicchio Salad

This Sweet Ricotta Toast with Blackberries & Honey is finished with fresh berries & coconut flakes. It’s a deliciously sweet & creamy breakfast or quick snack.

Blackberry Ricotta Toast

Red Cabbage Soup is the perfect recipe to warm you up on chilly days! This flavorful sweet & sour creamy soup is the perfect use for that half head of cabbage that’s sitting in your fridge!

Red Cabbage Soup

This red wine pasta is an easy, flavorful dinner! Red wine cooked down with garlic and butter until sauce-like. Throw in noodles and you have dinner!

Get the RECIPE from How Sweet Eats

Red Wine Bucatini with Pancetta and Parmesan

These Roasted Grape, Ricotta and Walnut Bites top my list of healthy holiday appetizers and are incredibly easy to make, flavorful and satisfying.

Get the RECIPE from Marisa Moore

Roasted Grape, Ricotta and Walnut Bites

You’ll want to keep a jar of this Pickled Red Cabbage in your fridge at all times. Not only is it fast and easy, but you can use it on anything! Pile it onto tacos, burgers, pork sandwiches, and so much more.

Pickled Red Cabbage

These Slow Cooker Black Beans are easy to make and taste so much better than the canned version! No soaking required. Perfect for meal prep or as a side dish to your favorite tacos, salads, or protein bowls.

Slow Cooker Black Beans

This Healthy Blackberry Smoothie recipe made without bananas, is the perfect way to start your day. It's amazingly rich and creamy, and packed with Vitamin C.

Blackberry Smoothie

This rustic Blackberry Galette is a quick and easy dessert recipe that can be assembled in just 10 minutes using store-bought, refrigerated pie crust.

Blackberry Galette

Red Cabbage Slaw is a super simple side dish recipe made without mayo. It’s tangy, delicious and crunchy. 

Red Cabbage Slaw

A very easy-to-make and deliciously healthy carrot hummus that’s easily adaptable to ever color of the carrot rainbow! Simply mix all ingredients in a blender or food processor until smooth!

Get the RECIPE from Waves in the Kitchen

Carrot Hummus

With a honey balsamic marinade, this roasted red cabbage is an easy recipe with simple ingredients that is an incredibly versatile side dish.

Get the RECIPE from Last Ingredient

Roasted Red Cabbage

This spicy eggplant stir fry is an easy, flavorful side dish that is great for dinner. The sauce is made with doubanjiang and other spices.

Get the RECIPE from Healthy Nibbles and Bits

Spicy Eggplant Stir Fry

Purple rice is a garlicky, butter rice that owes its vibrant colour to red cabbage! Love this 2-in-1 side that combines starch + lots of veg.

Get the RECIPE from Recipe Tin Eats

Purple Rice

This Purple Corn Veggie Fritters recipe is so easy to make for weeknight dinner and can be altered to fit whatever ingredients you may already have on hand.

Get the RECIPE from Vegetarian Ventures

Vegetarian Purple Corn Veggie Fritters

These vegan ube brownies are made with purple yam spread, aka ube halaya, vegan white chocolate, and mochi flour. It’s a delicious dessert with ube!

Get the RECIPE from Foodaciously

Ube Brownies

These garlicky roasted purple potatoes are the perfect gluten free side dish. Serve them with breakfast or dinner to complete a meal!

Get the RECIPE from Food Above Gold

Garlicky Roasted Purple Potatoes

A healthy but delicious purple kale salad with roasted beets, apples, crumbled blue cheese and puy lentils.

Get the RECIPE from Rosanna Etc

Purple Kale Salad With Lentils, Apple, Roasted Beets & Blue Cheese

This ube pandesal recipe is absolutely delicious! Give the classic Filipino breakfast staple an exciting and delicious twist with the new ube cheese pandesal with ube halaya! Fluffy and soft bread mixed with the sweetness of ube, a dollop of ube halaya jam and oozing with cheesy goodness.

Get the RECIPE from Aubreys Kitchen

Ube Pandesal

This vibrant, purple cauliflower tabbouleh is delicious and healthy! The perfect side dish!

Get the RECIPE from Well and Full

Purple Cauliflower Tabbouleh

A fragrant ube dough is marbled with a classic vanilla dough for a vibrant cookie that is unlike any other.

Get the RECIPE from Constellation Inspiration

Marbled Ube Cookies

Soft and chewy mochi bread infused with mashed purple sweet potato is easy to make and is naturally gluten-free. The recipe works great with regular sweet potatoes too.

Get the RECIPE from What to Cook Today

Easy No-Yeast Purple Sweet Potato Mochi Bread

This Indian red cabbage stir-fry gets finished with delicious bits of coconut.

Get the RECIPE from Food and Wine

Red Cabbage Stir-Fry with Coconut Recipe

These vegan purple sweet potato pie bars are perfect for the holidays and beyond! This easy to make dessert featuers an almond butter crust.

Get the RECIPE from The Little Epicurean

Purple Sweet Potato Pie Bars

Learn how to make a simple mashed purple potatoes recipe, plus tips on where to buy purple potatoes and info about their nutrition.

Get the RECIPE from Its a Veg World After All

Mashed Purple Potatoes

This simple sautéed red cabbage recipe is easy, healthy, and savory.

Get the RECIPE from Eat Simple Food

Simple Sautéed Red Cabbage

This purple potato salad is both tasty and eye catching, with electric pink radishes and bright green onions.

Get the RECIPE from A Couple Cooks

Purple Potato Salad

Yes, it is possible to make ube ice cream successfully at home! Using an ice cream maker, this ube ice cream recipe is creamy and so good.

Get the RECIPE from Cooking Therapy

Ube Ice Cream

Chickpea-free hummus made with a simple mixture of sweet potato, tahini, and spices. Perfect for a a fun snack, appetizer, breakfast, or light meal.

Get the RECIPE from Flora and Vino

Purple Sweet Potato Hummus

Baked purple sweet potatoes make a great side dish or meal- Learn how to bake perfectly fluffy sweet potatoes with this foolproof recipe!

Get the RECIPE from The Petite Cook

Baked Purple Sweet Potatoes

Try this yummy recipe for Creamy Purple Cauliflower Soup.

Get the RECIPE from Conscious Cooking

Creamy Purple Cauliflower Soup

Soft and fluffy roti or flatbread made with purple sweet potato. Its beautiful in color and goes well with any curry, jelly or stuffing.

Get the RECIPE from Blissful Bites by Tay

Purple Sweet Potato Flatbread

Cherry and pineapple are a match made in heaven – especially when paired together in these Cherry Pineapple Popsicles. An icy summer treat that’s perfect for cooling off on the patio.

Cherry Pineapple Popsicles

This blackberry cheesecake is a show stopper. Creamy, tart, fresh and best of all it is made without sugar or flour. It’s both low carb and gluten free!

Get the RECIPE from Sugar Free Sprinkles

Blackberry Cheesecake

The Aviation Gin Fizz recipe combines Empress 1908 Gin, crème de violette, orgeat and lemon juice. The addition of egg white makes it frothy and delicious.

Aviation Gin Fizz

Purple potato bites with horseradish creme fraiche and caviar – bold colors and big flavors packed into a small, delicious morsel – the perfect starter for your holiday dinner or a cocktail party.

Get the RECIPE from Viktorias Table

Purple Potato Bites

Soft, fluffy, flavorful ube pancakes made with Filipino purple yam and coconut milk. Serve with maple syrup, ube halaya, and macapuno strings.

Get the RECIPE from The Little Epicurean

Ube Pancakes

The Aviation Cocktail combines crème de violette, maraschino cherry liqueur and a bit of lemon juice for a perfectly sweet and tart cocktail that’s as pretty as it is delicious.

Aviation Cocktail

A really beautiful mashed potato recipe. For our Mashed Purple Sweet Potatoes, we use purple potatoes, and top them with butter and toasted pecans.

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Mashed Purple Sweet Potatoes

Brilliant in both color and flavor, this hash is full of vibrant vegetables and herbs. Purple potatoes and cabbage are roasted first for extra flavor, and a sprinkling of Parmesan adds a cheesy, savory element to the hash.

Get the RECIPE from Nellies Free Range Eggs

Cheesy Purple Potato and Cabbage Hash

How to Make Ahead and Store

Many of these purple food recipes can be made ahead of time and stored in the refrigerator for a few days or even in the freezer. Simply check the individual recipes for full storing instructions and details on how to make ahead. 

More Color Themed Foods

• Red Foods
• Orange Foods
• Yellow Foods
• Green Foods
• Blue Foods
• Brown Foods
• Black Foods
• Pink Foods
• Maroon Foods
• White Foods
• Rainbow Foods

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40+ Purple Foods for a Party

From well-known purple foods like blackberries and eggplant, to lesser known dishes like purple rice and ube, you’re guaranteed to find a little inspiration here! There are plenty of foods ranging from deep purple in color to a light violet color. Try this Red Cabbage Soup. It's the perfect recipe to warm you up on chilly days!

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Prep Time: 10 minutes minutes

Cook Time: 30 minutes minutes

Total Time: 40 minutes minutes

Servings: 6 people

Created by Platings and Pairings

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Ingredients

• 1 Tablespoon olive oil
• 2 shallots (minced)
• 3 cloves garlic (minced)
• 5 cups red cabbage (coarsely chopped, about ½ head)
• 6 cups vegetable stock
• 1 large russet potato (peeled and cubed)
• 1 medium apple (peeled and cubed)
• 1 tsp kosher salt
• ½ tsp black pepper
• 1 teaspoon brown sugar
• 2 teaspoons worcestershire sauce
• 2 teaspoons red wine vinegar
• 1 1/2 teaspoons paprika
• ¼ cup heavy cream
• Salt and pepper (to taste)

For Topping

• Chopped fresh dill
• Sour cream

Instructions

• Heat the olive oil in a large pot over medium-high heat.
• Once hot, add the shallots and saute 2-3 minutes, until softened. Add the garlic and cook 30 seconds longer, until fragrant.
• Add the cabbage, stock, potatoes, apple, brown sugar, worcestershire sauce, vinegar, and paprika.
• Bring to a boil, then reduce heat and simmer for 30 minutes.
• Remove pot from heat and using a blender or an immersion blender, process the soup until smooth. Stir in the heavy cream and season with salt and pepper, to taste.
• Garnish with sour cream and fresh dill, if desired. Enjoy!

Notes

You can make this soup up to 4 days in advance. Store the finished soup in an airtight container in the fridge until you’re ready to serve. When ready to serve, warm on the stove over medium-low heat.

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Equipment

Large Pot

Blender