Irish cuisine

Irish cuisine can be divided into two main categories – traditional, mainly simple dishes, and more modern dishes, as served by hotels etc. for tourists.

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There are many Irish dishes involving potatoes. Colcannon is a dish made of potato and one of wild garlic (the earliest form), cabbage or curly kale, (compare bubble and squeak). Champ is a combination of mashed potato and egg, into which chopped scallions (spring onions) are mixed.

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Potato - Colcannon - Garlic - Cabbage - Kale - Bubble and squeak - Champ - Mashed potato - Egg - Spring onion

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Other examples of simple Irish meals are Irish stew, and also bacon and cabbage (boiled together in water). Boxty is another traditional dish. A dish mostly particular to Dublin is coddle, which involves boiled pork sausages. Ireland is famous for the Irish breakfast, consisting mainly of pork, and, particularly in Ulster, fried potato farls.

Related Topics:
Irish stew - Bacon - Cabbage - Boxty - Dublin - Coddle - Sausage - Ireland - Irish breakfast - Pork - Ulster - Fried potato farls

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Seafood has never been a mainstay of the Irish diet, despite the country being an island, but many dishes have developed nonetheless, and it has gained popularity, especially due to the high quality of shellfish e.g. Dublin Bay Prawns, Galway Oysters (an oyster festival is held in Galway every September where Oysters are often served with Guinness) Salmon and cod are perhaps the two most common types of fish used. Hotels might also serve oysters and mussels.

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Seafood - Salmon - Cod - Oyster - Mussel

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Traditional Irish breads include soda bread, wheaten bread, soda farls, and blaa, a doughy white bread roll particular to Waterford.

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Soda bread - Wheaten bread - Soda farls - Blaa - Waterford

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