Irish Recipes
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Colcannon (Irish Mashed Potatoes With Cabbage)
An Irish favorite, colcannon combines potatoes and simmered greens into a hearty mash.
Colcannon (Mashed Potatoes and Cabbage)
Colcannon is a comforting Irish dish of fluffy mashed potatoes mixed with tender cabbage or kale, often with scallions and usually with plenty of butter. While it has become a tradition to enjoy colcannon on Samhain, an ancient Celtic festival from which Halloween is drawn, it's also a fine dish to celebrate any Irish holiday, including St. Patrick's Day. For Samhain, treasures would be buried in the dish; depending on what you found in your portion, your fortune for the coming months would be revealed. In some cases, a ring suggested marriage, while a coin promised future wealth. Use russet potatoes for a fluffier mash or Yukons for a creamier texture. Omit the cabbage and kale entirely and you've got a different Irish classic: champ! Fry tablespoons of leftover colcannon the next day for wonderful potato pancakes to serve under a runny egg.
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Guinness-Chocolate Sheet Cake
The Guinness-chocolate sheet cake is incredibly moist and rich, with a deep chocolate flavor that’s complemented by the beer’s malty, tangy undertones. Topped with a malted vanilla frosting, it’s a delicious celebration-worthy dessert.
Brown Bread
This simple whole-wheat loaf requires no kneading, shaping or baking experience to get it right. You can begin the recipe when you wake up, and enjoy a warm loaf for breakfast a few hours later. Make sure that your yeast foams in the molasses-water before you stir it into the flour. If it does nothing, the yeast is probably dead — discard it and save this recipe for another day. If you like seedy bread, include some (sunflower, poppy, sesame or a combination) in the dough, and sprinkle some on top of the loaf before letting it rise. No adjustments are needed if you decide to include them. While most bread recipes advise you to wait until the loaf cools completely before slicing, this one is best still warm, with butter — Irish, preferably!
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Fifteens (Northern Irish Digestive Biscuits and Marshmallows With Cherries)
Fifteen digestive biscuits, 15 glacé cherries, and 15 marshmallows comprise this quick and easy no-bake “traybake."
Irish soda bread with flax seeds
This soda bread is very simple to realize, delicious and healthy. Enjoy!
Irish Lady Potato Salad
I call this recipe an Irish Lady Potato Salad because, well, an Irish lady made it for me many years ago. It is remarkably simple and insanely delicious.
Soda Bread Buns
In this new incarnation of my soda bread recipe, I kept the crosses, but to maximize the surface area of the crumbly, crunchy outer crust, I baked the dough into small buns instead of a large loaf. That way, I was able to get more of the bumpy-textured crust in each bite.
IRISH BUTTER SHORTBREADS WITH LEMON ZEST
I have fond memories of these melt-in-your-mouth Irish butter shortbreads. These cookies literally melt in your mouth with lemon zest and melty Irish butter.
Mashed potatoes with reconstituted milk
Irish traditional/updated. The sourness of the buttermilk added to the fattiness of the butter combine to make these potatoes the perfect food. Buttermilk and potato, when enough is consumed to give sufficient calories for the day, is an almost perfectly balanced source of protein, explaining the Irish population explosion preceding the Great Famine. The butter would have been a luxury, when added to buttermilk you are basically reconstituting milk, but in a much more interesting form.
The Irish Godfather - Guinness and Amaretto Cocktail
Ireland meets Italy in this tasty Guinness beer and Amaretto cocktail. The Italian liqueurs add a delicious nutty flavor with a surprising hint of cherry.
Irish Car Bomb Float
This Irish Car Bomb recipe contains a little twist: a shot glass filled with Irish whiskey and Irish cream-flavored ice cream is dropped into a pint of Guinness.
Wild Mushroom Stuffed Zucchini
Corn O'Brien for 100
Rhubarb Flan
Brotchan Roy
Brotchan roy, a thick broth, is an old Dublin favorite traditionally served with Irish soda bread.
Irish Soda Bread
Champ
Irish Coffee
Jack McGarry, a co-owner of the Dead Rabbit bar in Lower Manhattan, is so particular about his Irish coffee that he arranged a search for the best cream available in the Northeast. He settled on Trickling Springs, available at the Stinky Bklyn cheese shop in Brooklyn. But any good cream (and Irish whiskey) will do, as long as you use high-quality, freshly brewed coffee and very cold whipped cream. Making the sugar syrup takes a few more minutes, but pays off in a subtle sweetness.
Barmbrack (Irish Sweet Bread)
This traditional Irish sweet bread is known as barmbrack, or bairin breac in Gaelic, or speckled loaf, since it is run through with raisins. This is a perfect bread for breakfast or tea, spread with good butter, toasted or not. The recipe has been adapted slightly from one by the well-known Irish cookbook author Rachel Allen; her original calls for chopped candied peel instead of citrus zest, and fast-rising yeast instead of dry active yeast.
Traditional Irish Soda Bread
While soda bread with add-ins like currants and caraway can be delicious, it's not at all authentic. In Ireland, soda bread tends to be plainer and more restrained. Here is a classic Irish soda bread recipe adapted from Darina Allen, an Irish television personality and the owner of the Ballymaloe Cookery School in Shanagarry. This soda bread is best eaten still steaming from the oven, slathered with good salted Irish butter that melts on contact with your slice. It’s a fine accompaniment to corned beef and cabbage, should you be making that dish this St. Paddy’s Day. Or make this recipe all year long. That’s how they do it in Ireland.
Irish Brown Soda Bread
When baking soda was introduced in the early 19th century, Irish home cooks adopted the product almost immediately. With soda, a loaf of bread could be ready in as little as one hour, as opposed to using yeast or sourdough starters, which require rising time. The recipe is a slight adaptation of one by the Irish cookbook author Rachel Allen. It is most delicious freshly baked, and best toasted the next day.
Buttery Pancakes With Lemon and Sugar
Historically, on the day preceding Lent, the shriving bell rang in towns throughout Ireland and Great Britain, calling parishioners to church to be absolved from their sins. The bell is less important in modern times on Shrove Tuesday, and what is eaten has taken center stage, which is why many now call the day Pancake Day or Pancake Tuesday. The pancake accomplishes the annual Christian tradition of finishing animal products like butter and eggs just before they become forbidden during the long fast. This traditional Irish pancake recipe, shared by Claire Keeney and her team at Ahoy Cafe in Killybegs, Ireland, is simple and delicious. The thin, delicate pancakes are topped with butter, sugar and a bright burst of lemon.
Boxty (Irish Potato Pancakes)
Boxty, breadlike potato pancakes that originated in Ireland as early as the late 18th century, were created as a resourceful way to transform less-than-stellar potatoes into a hearty side dish. Variations of these crisp, chewy potato pancakes abound, but most involve some combination of mashed potatoes, grated potatoes, flour, baking soda or baking powder; buttermilk or eggs are sometimes added for richness. Popular in pubs but also made at home, they’re typically served as an accompaniment to stews and rich meat dishes. This recipe is adapted from “The Irish Cookbook” by Jp McMahon (Phaidon, 2020), who serves them in a more modern fashion, with smoked salmon, sour cream and pickled onions, which balance and brighten.