30 Summer Potluck Recipe Ideas
Are you ready for warm weather and fun by the pool? Well get your party menus ready with this list of ideas! These 30 summer potluck recipes are sure to impress friends and family. From snacks and sides like dip and salads, to mains, desserts, and even drinks, this will have you ready for a summer potluck.
Snacks and Sides
Whip up some easy guacamole using a half a can of Rotel tomatoes and green chilis. Serve it up with some tortilla chips and salsa!
This Fuji Apple Salad With Zesty Dressing is sure to please a crowd at any summer potluck! Ideas like this should always be added to your party menu!
It’s a classic for a reason! Pasta salad is cool, creamy, and mouthwatering for parties and BBQs! Plus you can save leftovers for the next day’s lunch!
If you’ve never had Mango Corn Salsa this is your sign to make it! It’s a fantastic summer potluck idea! This recipe goes on the side of everything and anything from meat to fish and more.
If you like hummus then you will adore Chili Lime Sunflower Seed Dip! Salty, smooth, and savory, this dip goes great as a spread on bread or as a dip with crisp veggies!
Mains
Carne Asada Tacos With Marinade
Looking for savory summer potluck ideas? Grab some carne Asada meat and grill or fry it up just right! Add a tortilla and your favorite toppings.
Pinchos De Pollo is a popular street food from Puerto Rico! Featuring tender chicken cubes threaded onto a stick and grilled to perfection. With this scrumptious recipe you can make it in the comfort of your own home.
Pasta salads make the perfect summer potluck ideas! Especially this recipe with wholesome Turkey meat and seasoning.
Summer potluck recipes with a Mediterranean flair are always a hit. It’s brimming with fresh flavors and has hassle-free preparation! The zesty dressing is infused with lemon too- yum!
Pressed Italian Picnic Sandwiches
You’ll want to eat these Italian picnic sandwiches more often than just on picnic trips. They’re perfect travel size and make an excellent lunch with amazing flavors that are sure to be a hit.
This Garden Veggie Macaroni Salad and Creamy Avocado Dressing is the perfect summer potluck recipe! With ingredients like pasta cavatappi, bell peppers, celery, onion, baby carrots, tomatoes, cucumbers , and more.
Crab Beignets With Remoulade Dipping Sauce
These Cajun crab beignets are crispy, savory bites of seafood heaven. With succulent crabmeat, cajun seasoned beer batter, and a tangy homemade remoulade sauce.
Sweets
Strawberry Poke Cake With Filling
Using your favorite brand of strawberry box cake mix, custard, and frosting you can have the best poke cake! Half the fun is decorating it and the other half is serving it to friends!
In just 45 minutes you can have the most delicious Peanut Butter Cup Cookie Bars! These homemade cookies are studded with Reese’s peanut butter cups and crunchy walnuts. Summer potluck recipe ideas like these never disappoint.
Homemade Ice Cream Cookie Sandwiches
You can make some homemade ice cream sandwiches with a few simple ingredients! Like these funfetti ones with box cake mix and marshmallow fluff!
Oreo fluff dip is an easy no bake dessert with minimal ingredients that’s sure to be a hit! Serve it up with fresh fruit, Graham crackers, and more!
If you’re looking for a fruit style dessert for your summer potluck idea look no further. Ambrosia Fruit Salad is packed with multiple fruit, Cool Whip, nuts, and coconut.
Summer potluck recipe ideas like these custard filled lemon cupcakes will surely please a crowd. With simple ingredients like box cake mix, pudding, frosting, and more.
More Tasty Recipes
This easy recipe for cherry fluff salad is simple yet mouthwatering! With ingredients like cherry pie filling, crushed pineapple, whipped cream, sweetened condensed milk, mini marshmallows and sweetened shredded coconut what’s not to love?
Cowboy caviar is a tasty mix of beans, crunchy bell peppers, corn, cherry tomatoes, and about! It’s just perfect for a party, served with chips or used as a topping on burgers!
I adore watermelon in the summer, I just can’t get enough of it! That’s why I love this watermelon fruit salad and always add it to my summer potluck recipe menu!
Watermelon Feta Cucumber Salad
Like I said, I adore watermelon in the summer! That’s why I had to add another watermelon recipe idea! Watermelon feta cucumber salad is excellent for parties.
I have to have a chicken salad on the menu for any potluck in the summer! This recipe idea is perfect for healthy eaters and anyone who loves chicken!
Summer is the time to celebrate the 4th of July so of course you have to have a patriotic cake! This red white and blue Kool aid cheesecake will delight your loved ones.
Funfetti Cake Batter Dip Recipe
Easy Funfetti Cake Batter Dip Recipe is the perfect summer potluck idea. It’s easy to whip up with a handful of simple ingredients and no cooking is needed.
Drinks
Blue Kamikaze Shots are cool and refreshing for grown ups at a pool party or potluck! This tasty sweet and sour blue shot features vodka, blue curacao, and lime.
Mardi Gras Jello Shots will delight your friends as a fun summer potluck idea! These layered Jell-O shots feature frosting around the rim and taste so good.
These cool and refreshing copycat Starbucks pink drinks will be the star of the show at any potluck or pool party! With flavors like strawberries and coconut what’s not to love? It’s so simple and tasty it will quickly become your new favorite.
If you’re looking for iconic cocktails recipes for a summer potluck, this is the best idea. Lemon lavender vodka is beautiful, tasty, and simple to make.
Tinto de Verano is a wine based summer potluck recipe! Toast to the warm weather with an icy, fruity Spanish cocktail that is bursting with zesty citrus and bubbly lemon soda.
Now you’re ready to throw and attend the best summer potlucks with these 30 Summer Potluck Recipe Ideas! Some of them might even become your new favorites. Let us know in the comments or on our social media which ones you liked best!
For more summer potluck recipes, try this red, white, and blue cheesecake trifle.
Or these lemon basil sugar cookies.
