Cuisine
Northern Irish Food
Griddle breads, the Ulster fry and home baking.
Northern Irish home cooking is built around the griddle: potato bread and soda farls, cooked on a flat pan and fried up for the Ulster fry. It shares a great deal with Irish and Scottish cooking, and has its own names and habits.
Recipes
Northern Irish Food recipes
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 · 2 hr 20 min
Fifteens
Northern Ireland's no-bake traybake: digestives, marshmallows and glacé cherries rolled in coconut and sliced.
Recipe · 35 min
Paris Buns
Soft, sweet scone-like buns topped with crunchy sugar: a favourite of Northern Irish bakery counters.
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.
Recipe · 1 hr 25 min
Yellowman
Northern Ireland's chewy-crisp honeycomb toffee, famously sold at the Ould Lammas Fair in Ballycastle.
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Part of British Isles cuisine.