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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

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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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25 min.	43 min.	1 hour 8 min.

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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.

Keeping

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

Source

Home made.

Nutritional information

Whole recipe
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
2,596 Kcal or 10,869 Kj	51 gr	121 gr	216 gr
130 %	20 %	11 %	33 %

Per 100 g
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
162 Kcal or 678 Kj	3 gr	8 gr	14 gr
8 %	1 %	1 %	2 %

Per person
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
649 Kcal or 2,717 Kj	13 gr	30 gr	54 gr
32 %	5 %	3 %	8 %

% 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).

Possible allergens in this recipe: Sulfites, Milk

How much will it cost?

For 4 people : 5.41 €
Per person : 1.35 €

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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: Two-stage beef chuck , Salmon and Spinach Gratin, Potato and two ham gratin, Chicken Brussels pie, Upside-down Parmentier, ... All
	Green cabbage: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Sautéed Green Vegetables in pan, How to prepare cabbage, Pan-fried salmon with white cabbage, Cabbage julienne with ham, Fish petals, vegetables julienne, and beurre blanc, ... All
	Sausage: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Sausage rougail, Duo of slow-cooked pork, Sausages with baked beans, French style, Stuffed mushrooms au gratin, Roscoff salad, ... All
	Spring onion (scallion): You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Warm cauliflower salad with two cheeses, Super-green, super-thrifty soup, Jerusalem artichoke purée with leeks, Red mullet fillets with a reduced white-wine sauce, Salmon "en papillote" with small vegetables, ... All

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