above: Ireland’s Champ Recipe
Irish Champ Recipe – Poundies Recipe
It’s one of the most tasty and easy Irish dish to make. Its components are butter, green onions, and mashed potatoes primarily. This dish is usually dipped in gravy sauce, but instead, in Irish style of preparing it, it is served with butter. The potatoes used for mashing are the red coloured ones (still with skin) to add more colour and nutrition.
above: Original Irish stew with lambs meat
Irish stew and the Mutton connection
Way back, Irish stew is made out of the most readily available and cheapest ingredients. Its main ingredient is mutton (a less tender sheep over two years of age) or sheep, with potatoes, parsley, and onions. Today’s Irish stew twisted from lamb or mutton to any type of meat since Irish began to immigrate from Ireland to America since lamb or mutton are not plentiful there.
above: Ireland’s famous sausages, the “Bangers”
Bangers – Oxford Sausages Recipe
“Bangers” is the popular name of sausages in Ireland and England. Irish’s sausage recipe consists of grated lemon, spices, ground veal, and ground pork. You can buy readily available ingredients for bangers but it’s more flavorful and fresh if you grind and you grate your own ingredients at home. Though it requires much effort but the outcome is incomparable.