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Soda bread, stews and the breads of the Irish kitchen.

A bowl of Irish-style beef stew with carrots and potatoes
Photo: A Healthier Michigan from Detroit, United States · CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)

Irish home cooking is famous for its quick breads, raised with bicarbonate of soda and buttermilk rather than yeast, and for slow, generous stews.

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Irish Food recipes

A bowl of colcannon: mashed potato with kale

Recipe · 40 min

Colcannon

Buttery mashed potato folded with kale or cabbage and spring onions, served with a well of melting butter.

A round loaf of brown soda bread cooling on a wire rack

Recipe · 50 min

Irish Soda Bread

A yeast-free loaf raised with bicarbonate of soda and buttermilk: mixed, shaped and baked in under an hour.

Golden, griddle-cooked potato bread farls

Recipe · 55 min

Potato Bread (Potato Farls)

Soft, thin griddle bread made from mashed potato and a little flour, cut into farls and fried for the Ulster fry.

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