Colcannon Mash
For a dish that is not widely eaten or served today in Ireland, Colcannon remains remarkably widely known throughout the country and is a big part of traditional Irish cooking. Serve it as a side dish, or atop your Guinness stew.
Servings Prep Time
4people 10minutes
Cook Time
25minutes
Servings Prep Time
4people 10minutes
Cook Time
25minutes
Ingredients
Instructions
  1. Steam the potatoes over a pan of boiling water until soft. Drain and steam. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
  2. Put the milk, butter and Spring onions in a pan and cook gently for five minutes, or until the Spring onions have cooked.
  3. Mash the potatoes with a potato masher or a ricer. Add to the milk mixture, season with salt, pepper and nutmeg, then beat well. Add 1/3 cup of the blue cheese and mix well.
  4. Put into a pie dish, top with the remainder of the Irish Cashel blue cheese. Bake in the oven for 15 to 20 minutes and serve with Guinness stew.
Recipe Notes

“Did you ever eat colcannon
when ’twas made with thickened cream
And the greens and scallions blended
Like the picture in a dream?
Did you ever scoop a hole on top
To hold the melting cake
Of clover-flavored butter
Which your mother used to make?”

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