Let the wizard feasting begin 🪄
Looking to add some savory Harry Potter food ideas to balance out the sweetness of treacle tarts and butterbeer?
Bring on the salty, savory, and the healthy. Whether smothered in cheesy goodness or packed with veggies like #5, there’s something here for every savory soul.
1. Forbidden Forest Mushroom Caps
Small known fact: the Forbidden Forest has the best mushrooms for appetizers. Your party guests will be glad you went foraging in such an exclusive location.
Stuffed mushrooms check a lot of boxes when it comes to adult party foods—they are savory, flavorful, and a fun finger food that is decidedly adult. The recipe linked above has a good filling, but I like to add sausage and green onions to the cream cheese and top with parmesan. I also I pre-roast my mushrooms brushed in garlic butter (like in these mushroom burgers) so they will be softer before I add the filling.
2. Bludgers
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Play your Quidditch and eat it too. Skip the chocolate golden snitch and enjoy some savory meatballs instead. Or better yet, have a whole Quidditch-themed feast with mini golden hoops as decor.
3. Basilisk Blood
Pair the “bludgers” from above with the perfect dipping sauce: marinara basilisk blood. Simply find the hidden entrance to your local Chamber of Secrets, slay the mythical creature, then serve with meatballs.
4. Mrs. Weasley’s Rolls
Mrs. Weasley is all things comfort food, warm hugs, and good home cooking. Pair these buttery rolls with the meatball bludgers and marinara to make mini meatball subs.
5. Devil’s Snare Salad
These deep moody colors are deliciously healthy. While any salad will do, dark green and purple leaves with juicy blackberries are captivating. Just don’t let it ensnare you.
6. Eye of Newt
Beet-pickled curry deviled eggs get their striking color from beet juice. No food dye needed. Consider using olive slices to make pupils, and if curry is not your flavor of choice, try an avocado or bacon filling instead.
7. Wizard Hats
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Organic blue corn tortilla chips make the cutest, crunchiest wizard hats. Pair them with regular tortilla chips for a splash of contrast.
8. Avocado Kedavra & Flesh-Eating Slug Salsa
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Chips, salsa and homemade guacamole are always a party hit. Give them some deadly fun names to tie them into your Harry Potter party theme, namely: avocado kedavra and flesh-eating slug salsa.
8. Liquid Luck
Even Bon Appetit chefs have a weakness for liquid gold, I mean luck.
9. Starry Night Soup
Cook up a comforting purple carrot soup and drink in the night sky. Perfect for a Harry Potter Astronomy Party.
10. Sorting Hat Cheeseball
Use poppy seeds or black sesame seeds (found at Asian markets) to give your cheeseball its special Hogwarts house-sorting abilities.
11. Bacon-Wrapped Beetles with Wolfsbane Reduction
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Bacon wrapped dates with almonds and cream cheese make for tasty “beetles” that can be dipped in a balsamic reduction. Recipe from the hilarious cookbook Feed These People.
12. Cornish Pasties
Eat like Harry himself. Cornish Pasties are commonly served at Hogwarts and consist of a flakey crust and are filled with meat and potatoes.
13. Mandrakes
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Mandrake pigs in a blanket. A kid-friendly food that’s easy to make with crescent roll dough. Caution: ear protection recommended.
Instructions: Cut hot dogs in half, wrap in crescent rolls. After they are baked, cut holes for eyes and mouths. Then cut tiny holes on top and put a spinach leaf in each hole.
14. House Elf Beef & Dumpling Stew
A simple, heartwarming dish cooked up by humble house elves. Serve as a soup course or main dish.
15. Astronomy Charcuterie Board
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Make a night sky charcuterie board with:
- Assorted cheeses
- Purple or black olives
- White or purple radishes
- Nuts
- Dried cherries
- Dates
- Purple carrots
- Purple cauliflower
- Blackberries
- Blueberries
- Cherries
16. Dragon Legs
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Barbecue drumsticks by any other name will still taste as sweet.
17. Harry Potter and the Order of the Pizza
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Nothing like a good pun on your food table to bring a smile to someone. Just choose the pizza of your choice and slap a fun label by it.
18. Hippogriff Cold Cuts
Serve slices of salami or favorite meat of choice as hippogriff cold cuts and pair with crackers for a simple finger food.
19. Basilisk Pizza
A pizza pocket, but giant snake style. Roll out pizza dough, fill with pizza fillings, and make basilisk designs using poppy seeds.
If you want a green snake, mix blended spinach or green food dye into the dough before baking.
20. Giant Basilisk Sandwich
If pizza isn’t your thing, try this giant basilisk sandwich. This potentially could become delightfully massive if you needed to serve a large group.
21. Blast-Ended Skrewt Cakes
And finally, ending on a gourmet note are these flavorful crab cakes with homemade tartar sauce. They are elegant, but not complicated to make, they can be prepped ahead of time, and kids and adults will devour them. What’s not to love? Now for the fun name. Hagrid bred blast-ended screwts, a black crustacean that is a hybrid between manticores and fire crabs. If you really want to lean into the spicy name, you could serve them with Siracha dipping sauce.
And there you have it, 21 savory Harry Potter food ideas to add serious magic to your next Harry Potter party. Perfect for Halloween, Friendsgiving, or a unique Christmas party theme.
