St. Paddy's Day or Paddy's Day is an annual feast day, which celebrates Saint Patrick, one of the patron saints of Ireland, and is generally celebrated on March 17. Join us at Atlantic and get in the spirit with some traditional Irish Recipes for the family!
Irish Stew
“Simple ingredients but the result is a hearty dish which has been enjoyed for generations!”
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Ingredients.
1.25-1.5kg/2½-3lb mutton neck chops
4 medium onions
4 medium carrots
570ml/1 pint stock or water
salt and pepper
4 potatoes
15g/½oz butter
1 tbsp chopped chives
1 tbsp chopped chives
1. Cut the excess fat from the chops, shred it and render it down in a heavy flameproof casserole.
2. Toss the meat in the fat until coloured.
3. Cut the onions and carrots into quarters, add to the meat and turn in the fat also.
4. Add the stock and season carefully.
5. Simmer gently for approximately two hours, adding the potatoes halfway through.
6. When the meat is cooked, pour off the cooking liquid, de-grease and re-heat it in another saucepan. Check the seasoning.
7. Swirl in the butter, chives and parsley and pour back over the stew.
Bacon & Cabbage
“Another very popular traditional meal for the family. One of the misconceptions about this dish is that corned beef is used when in actual fact corn beef and cabbage is more popular in the USA than in Ireland. Corned beef in Ireland is a very different type of meat to what it is in the USA.”
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Ingredients.
2 Pounds of Irish Streaky bacon
1 Fresh white cabbage
1 onion
Black pepper
1 tablespoon breadcrumbs
½ tablespoon brown sugar
8-10 cloves
1. Soak the bacon in cold water for 12 hours.
2. Place in saucepan and cover well with fresh cold water. Bring slowly to the boil and simmer gently for 1 ½ hours. You know it is cooked when the bone slides out easily. Leave the bacon in the water to set.
3. Cut cabbage into quarters wash well and remove the tough stalks.
4. Place cabbage into a pan of boiling water.
Note: If you place a skinned onion in the pan as well it will counteract the smell of the cabbage)
5. Boil fast for 5 minutes.
6. Add 2-3 cupfuls of the water that you boiled the bacon in. this will salt the cabbage and give it a lovely bacon flavor. Cook until cabbage is tender.
7. Drain well and season with black pepper.
8. Skin the bacon and cover with the breadcrumbs and stud with the cloves.
9. Brown in the oven and serve sliced on a bed of cabbage. Serve with potatoes boiled in their skins.
Irish Boxty
“Boxty on the griddle, boxty in the pan, if you can't make boxty, you'll never get a man!" - Potato pancakes is the best way to describe Boxty, it is a very popular dish and easy to make!
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Ingredients.
2 Raw Potatoes
4 Mashed Potatoes
1/2 c. Plain Flour
1 c. Chopped green onions --or-- 1 minced onion
1 Egg
2 tsp. Garlic Powder (optional)
Salt + Pepper to taste
1. Grate the raw potatoes and mix well with the mashed potatoes.
2. Add the salt, pepper, garlic and flour
3. Slightly beat the egg and add it to the mixture.
4. Add green onions (or regular onion).
5. Add as much milk as you need to make the mixture the same thickness as pancake batter.
The size you want to make the patties is up to you.
6. Cook over moderate heat for 3-4 minutes on each side or until they are lightly browned.
Note: To make it more 'breakfast friendly' add pieces of cooked bacon to the batter.
Something Sweet...
Shamrock Cookies
“Fun to make and taste great!.”
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Ingredients.
1 cup butter or margarine
1 cup sugar
1 egg
2 cups flour
1 teaspoon grated lime peel
1 cup natural California pistachios, chopped
2. Stir in flour and lime peel; mix in pistachios.
3. Refrigerate dough 1 hour.
4. Roll dough 1/4 inch thick; cut shapes with shamrock-shaped cookie cutter.* Place on ungreased baking sheet.
5. Bake at 375 degrees F., 8 to 10 minutes or until lightly browned; cool.
6.Using a pastry tip or a paper cone pipe icing to outline cookies.
Lime Icing
7. Beat 1/4 cup butter or margarine with 2 1/2 cups sifted powdered sugar, 2 tablespoons milk and 1/2 teaspoon grated lime peel until smooth. If frosting is too stiff, beat in a few drops more milk; if too soft, beat in more powdered sugar. Makes about 1 cup.
Note: if desired, make up an additional half-batch of icing, color it green using green food color and pipe with fine tip inside white icing outline.
* If shamrock-shaped cookie cutter is not available, cut out shamrock pattern from a piece of heavy paper and cut cookie dough using pattern and sharp knife. Or cut dough with 2-2 1/2 inch round cookie cutter and pipe icing in shamrock shape on cookies after baking.
Bread and Butter pudding
“A great tasting, simple and easy to prepare dessert!.”
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Ingredients.
8 slices white bread
A good bit of butter
450ml (3/4) pint of full-fat milk
2 eggs
50g (2oz) granulated sugar
50g (2 oz) sultanas
Ground nutmeg or cinnamon
1. Remove the crusts from the bread. Butter each slice on one side only and cut into triangles.
2. Use some of the butter to grease an oven-proof dish. Cover the base of the dish with one layer of bread triangles keeping the buttered side down.
3. Sprinkle some of the sultanas on the bread with a little nutmeg or cinnamon.
4. Repeat with another layer of bread, sultanas and spice, finishing with a layer of bread with the buttered side up.
5. Beat the eggs with the milk and sugar and pour over the bread layers. Let it sit for half an hour so that the bread soaks up the liquid. Bake at 180°C/ 350°F/ Gas 4 for about half an hour or until golden and puffy. Eat on its own straight from the oven.
