What is a good Irish meal recipe? St. Pats is coming up!?!
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Corned beef and cabbage
Get a corned beef brisket (you can get them by the pound at the grocery store and they will come prepackaged with a seasoning packet). Buy a couple of heads of cabage (I figure a half a head per person) and a bag of baby carrots (1lb should do the trick, but get the bigger bag if you like carrots).
Put the brisket in your pot or crock pot. Fill the bag the brisket came in with water and pour that in. Do that twice. Cut the cabbage in quarters and add to the pot. Add the carrots. Fill the pot or crock pot with water to cover the meat, cabbage and carrots (you will need a pretty big pot depending on how much brisket you need - I usually use a 6 quart crockpot). Open the seasoning packet that came with the brisket and add - be careful when using the crock pot because if you add too much of the spices it will be too much - I usually use about 3/4 of the packet when I'm using the stove, a little over 1/2 with the crockpot. Set the pot to boil then lower to a simmer and cover - I cook it for about an hour or so. In the crockpot I set it to high and cook for about 5 hours (or until I get home from work). Keep checking and make sure there's water covering the meat at all time (in the crock pot you should be OK as long as you cover it).
Serve the meat and cabbage with mustard and horseradish (if you'd like). Serve with buttered boiled potatoes.
paddy cake
Irish stew, which is made with lamb or mutton, potatoes, onions and parsley.
For starters, I serve a homemade Cream of Broccoli soup or Cream of Asapargus (something green)
Dinner (Irish traditional) is corned beef brisket, boiled potatoes, cabbage & carrots. Sometimes I also make colcannon.
Dessert is choice of either Pistachio Cake or Grasshopper Pie.
Bon Appetito & Happy St Pat's Day!
Irish Stew.
1/4 cup olive oil
1 1/4 pounds stew beef, cut into 1-inch pieces
6 large garlic cloves, minced
6 cups beef stock or canned beef broth
I cup of Guinness beer
1 cup of fine red wine
2 tablespoons tomato paste
1 tablespoon sugar
1 tablespoon dried thyme
1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
2 bay leaves
2 tablespoons (1/4 stick) butter
3 pounds russet potatoes, peeled, cut into 1/2-inch pieces (about 7 cups)
1 large onion, chopped
2 cups 1/2-inch pieces peeled carrots
Salt and Pepper
2 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley
1 Heat olive oil in heavy large pot over medium-high heat. Add beef and sauté until brown on all sides, about 5 minutes. Add garlic and sauté 1 minute. Add beef stock, Guinness, red wine, tomato paste, sugar, thyme, Worcestershire sauce and bay leaves. Stir to combine. Bring mixture to boil. Reduce heat to medium-low, then cover and simmer 1 hour, stirring occasionally.
2 While the meat and stock is simmering, melt butter in another large pot over medium heat. Add potatoes, onion and carrots. Sauté vegetables until golden, about 20 minutes. Set aside until the beef stew in step one has simmered for one hour.
3 Add vegetables to beef stew. Simmer uncovered until vegetables and beef are very tender, about 40 minutes. Discard bay leaves. Tilt pan and spoon off fat. Transfer stew to serving bowl. Sprinkle with parsley and serve. (Can be prepared up to 2 days ahead. Salt and pepper to taste. Cool slightly. Refrigerate uncovered until cold, then cover and refrigerate. Bring to simmer before serving.)
Serves 4 to 6.
Go to a real GOOD butcher shop.. Talk with the staff..
ask about the better Cuts..
May Be there might a local (?) processor that takes orders..for corned beef (??) even smoked.....
then remember they relied a lot on root staples.. potatoes.. turnips ..carrots and cabbage..
Then give a thought to Prime Rib or a leg of lamb...
Well - it has to include lobster - and oysters - and soda bread, and salt butter, and stout - and it could include corned beef - I mean the Irish version, salt beef, not out of a tin - or pigs' feet, if you're feeling bucolic - but I would leave out the cabbage and bacon, and the Irish stew.
And although it's not authentic - hotel Irish rather than native Irish - I would finish with Irish coffee.
Slainte!
ya know there lassie, the only irish dish i know of
is boiled dinner, which is also a canadian and new england thing
it's corned beef boiled with pototoes, turnip, carrots, and cabbage. my irish recipe adds whole black peppercorns.
here at our house, we put a slice of homemade bread on the plate and pile the meat and veggies on top, and drizzle the juice over.
newfoundlanders, also like to add peas pudding. hey, it's green...good for st. patty's. but i've never made it. it's easy tho, but you would have to do a search, newfoundland recipes, traditional jigs (or jiggs) dinner.
hope you have a wonderful day!
Corned beef and cabbage.
Irish Car Bombs are good, though that is an alcoholic beverage (my personal fav.)
Aie! Good meal eh.
Baked veal (lamb meat) with oyster gravy and stuffing, potatoes (however you like them cooked), steamed asparagus lightly brushed with melted butter, honeydew mellon pieces, and bread pudding. A good ole irish beer or two will top this all off.