Cuisine
Irish Food
Soda bread, stews and the breads of the Irish kitchen.
Irish home cooking is famous for its quick breads, raised with bicarbonate of soda and buttermilk rather than yeast, and for slow, generous stews.
Recipes
Irish Food recipes
Recipe · 1 hr 55 min
Bacon and Cabbage with Parsley Sauce
Ireland's classic family dinner: a boiled bacon joint, cabbage cooked in the same pot and a creamy parsley sauce.
Recipe · 1 hr 30 min
Barmbrack (Irish Tea Brack)
A dark, sticky Irish fruit loaf made with tea-soaked fruit: the traditional bake for Halloween.
Recipe · 3 hr 30 min
Beef and Guinness Stew
Chunks of braising beef slow-cooked with stout, onions and carrots until tender, in a deep, glossy gravy.
Recipe · 45 min
Boxty
Irish potato pancakes made from grated raw and mashed potato, fried in butter until crisp.
Recipe · 40 min
Colcannon
Buttery mashed potato folded with kale or cabbage and spring onions, served with a well of melting butter.
Recipe · 2 hr 30 min
Dublin Coddle
Sausages, bacon, onions and potatoes cooked slowly in stock: a warming one-pot supper from old Dublin.
Recipe · 1 hr 15 min
Irish Apple Cake
A simple rubbed-in sponge packed with chunks of Bramley apple and topped with crunchy sugar, best served warm with custard.
Recipe · 5 min
Irish Coffee
Hot, sweetened coffee with Irish whiskey and a collar of cool cream floating on top: the famous after-dinner drink.
Recipe · 45 min
Irish Seafood Chowder
Creamy, chunky and full of fish: the chowder served in pubs all along the Irish coast, with brown bread for dipping.
Recipe · 3 hr 20 min
Irish Spiced Beef
Cork's Christmas tradition: beef rubbed with spices and sugar for a week, then simmered and served thinly sliced. Start it now.
Recipe · 2 hr 20 min
Irish Stew
Lamb, potatoes and onions simmered slowly until tender: the plain, comforting stew of the Irish home kitchen.
Recipe · 1 hr 40 min
Apple Tart (Plate Pie)
Sharp Bramley apples between two layers of sweet shortcrust on a pie plate: the apple tart of every Northern Irish kitchen.
Recipe · 35 min
Champ
Creamy mashed potato beaten with scallions and milk, served with a pool of melting butter.
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.
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.
Recipe · 2 hr 30 min
Sherry Trifle
Sponge soaked in sherry, fruit, thick custard and whipped cream: the make-ahead pudding that has graced Christmas tables for generations.
Recipe · 30 min
Soda Farls
Quick griddle-cooked soda bread, cut into quarters and ready in 30 minutes: the other half of the Ulster fry.
Recipe · 40 min
Ulster Fry
Northern Ireland's cooked breakfast, made unique by soda farls and potato bread fried golden in the pan.
Recipe · 1 hr
Wheaten Bread
Northern Ireland's nutty brown soda bread, baked in a loaf tin with wholemeal flour, oats and buttermilk.
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