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Colcannon

Name: Colcannon
Prep time: 25 min
Cook time: 43 min
Total time: 1 h 8 min
Yield: 4 people
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 500 g green cabbage; 250 g sausage; 100 g spring onion (scallion); 50 g butter; 700 g potato purée; Chives; Salt; Pepper

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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Duration

1 hour 10 min.

Difficulty

Easy

Last modified on: October 31^th 2026

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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

Times for this recipe

Preparation

25 min.

Cooking

45 min.

All in all

1 hour 10 min.

Preparation 25 min.

Cooking 45 min.

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Step by step recipe

Step 1 - ⌛ 20 min.

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

Drain thoroughly and leave to wait on absorbant paper.

Step 2 - ⌛ 40 min.

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

Step 3 - ⌛ 3 min.

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

Step 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.

Step 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.

Step 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: Homemade.

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Nutritional information

	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats	Calories	Energy
Per 100 g	4 g RDI=6 %	9 g RDI=3 %	13 g RDI=18 %	171 kcal RDI=9 %	714 kJ RDI=9 %
Per person	17 g RDI=26 %	36 g RDI=13 %	52 g RDI=72 %	682 kcal RDI=34 %	2,856 kJ RDI=34 %
Whole recipe	66 g RDI=102 %	143 g RDI=54 %	209 g RDI=286 %	2,729 kcal RDI=136 %	11,424 kJ RDI=136 %