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Colcannon

Colcannon is a traditional Irish dish, made by mixing creamy mashed potatoes (or purée) with cabbage, chives and spring onions.

There are many different versions and ways to adapt this classic recipe. My version here serves it with baked sausages.

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Last modified on: April 23^th 2017

For 4 people, you will need:

1 500 g green cabbage
2 250 g sausage
3 100 g spring onion (scallion)
4 50 g butter
5 700 g potato purée
6 chives
7 salt
8 pepper
Total weight: 1,600 grams

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Time required for this recipe:

Preparation	Cooking	Start to finish
25 min.	43 min.	1 hour 8 min.

Keeping: A few days in the fridge, covered with plastic film.

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Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - 20 min.

Prepare 500 g green cabbage (green really is best for this).

Drain thoroughly and leave to wait on absorbant paper.

Stage 2 - 40 min.

Wrap the sausages in aluminium foil and cook in the oven at 360°F (180°C) for about 40 minutes.

Stage 3 - 3 min.

Rinse, peel and chop 100 g spring onion (scallion).

Stage 4 - 3 min.

Melt 50 g butter in a frying pan on medium heat. Add the cabbage and onion.

Salt, pepper and cook gently for 2 or 3 minutes.

Stage 5 - 2 min.

Reheat 700 g potato purée in a saucepan on low heat, then add the cabbage and onion mixture.

Finish by adding the chopped chives, then check the seasoning.

Stage 6

Serve on hot plates, with a bed of colcannon and the sausages sliced on top.

Remarks

As you can see, I have added sausages here (smoked), but my friend Frances from Dublin tells me that in Ireland they don't normally serve meat with colcannon, except for maybe a bit of bacon.

Nutritional information

% are calculated relative to a Recommended Dietary Intake or RDI of 2000 k-calories or 8400 k-joules by day for a woman (change to a man).

How much will it cost?

For 4 people : 5.41 €
Per person : 1.35 €

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Source

Home made.

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This recipe uses (among others)

	Potato purée: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Dauphinoise potatoes with Serano ham, Fried rillettes, Sausage with duchess potatoes and a Mont d'Or fondue , Salmon and Spinach Gratin, Potato and two ham gratin, ... All
	Green cabbage: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Veal Chop With Assortment of Vegetables, Fish petals, vegetables julienne, and beurre blanc, Bacon and cabbage omelette, Warm scallop and cabbage salad, Stuffed cabbage leaves, ... All
	Sausage: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Stuffed mushrooms au gratin, Roscoff loaf, Duo of slow-cooked pork, Sausages with baked beans, French style, ... All
	Spring onion (scallion): You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Purple artichokes braised in white wine, Chickpea salad, Warm cauliflower salad with two cheeses, Mushroom and artichoke omelette, Salmon "en papillote" with small vegetables, ... All

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