3 dishes people actually cook in Ireland: what they are, how long they take, and what you need to buy.
What can you cook from Ireland? 3 traditional Ireland dishes, from Colcannon (30 min, the quickest) to Irish stew (150 min, the longest). Each recipe is written step by step with full ingredient lists, free to read.
Ireland on the map. Drag to spin the planet.
An Irish potato cake that takes half its potato raw and finely grated, half cooked and mashed, plus the starch wrung out of the gratings.
A creamy, buttery blend of potatoes and greens.
Bone-in mutton, onions and potatoes layered raw in a pot of water, where half the potatoes dissolve into the only thickening the dish gets.
Copper documents three dishes from Ireland: Boxty, Colcannon and Irish stew. Two of the three are fried. Not one needs an oven — they cook entirely on the hob. Between them they use 18 different ingredients.
The three recipes need 18 ingredients between them, of which 1 is shared by more than one dish. Copper's atlas covers 586 dishes from 198 countries, and these three are the Ireland entries. Every ingredient list on this page is complete, with quantities, and free to read.
Colcannon is the quickest at 30 minutes. Irish stew is the longest at 150 minutes, most of it unattended. The median is 45 minutes — a weeknight, not a project.
Boxty, Colcannon and Irish stew are rated easy — start there. The full method is on each recipe page, step by step, free to read.
Ireland is part of Western European.
Countries close to Ireland on the globe — and close on the plate.
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