Irish Recipes

Recipes are here to support the traditions they belong to. Each one lists the tin it was written for and scales to yours.

19 recipes

A bowl of seafood chowder with buttered brown bread and a pint of stout

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 · 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 · 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.

A slice of apple pie served with custard

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.

Sliced boiled bacon with cabbage and a creamy white sauce

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

Wheaten Bread

Northern Ireland's nutty brown soda bread, baked in a loaf tin with wholemeal flour, oats and buttermilk.

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.

A bowl of Irish beef stew with potatoes, beside a pint of Guinness

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.

A slice of apple cake with vanilla ice cream

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 · 2 hr 30 min

Dublin Coddle

Sausages, bacon, onions and potatoes cooked slowly in stock: a warming one-pot supper from old Dublin.

Recipe · 40 min

Ulster Fry

Northern Ireland's cooked breakfast, made unique by soda farls and potato bread fried golden in the pan.

A barmbrack cut open to show the dried fruit inside

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 · 35 min

Champ

Creamy mashed potato beaten with scallions and milk, served with a pool of melting butter.

Recipe · 45 min

Boxty

Irish potato pancakes made from grated raw and mashed potato, fried in butter until crisp.

A round of soda bread scored into quarters

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.

A bowl of Irish lamb stew with potatoes, carrots and a sprig of rosemary

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 · 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.