Monday, January 6, 2014

Irish cuisine


Since we are supposed to dedicate a blog post to Irish culture I thought why not write a little bit about typical Irish food and Irish recipes.

Actually I first wanted to write about Ed Sheeran one of my favorite singers and songwriters but after doing some research I found out that he actually is British and only his grandparents on his father’s side are Irish.

Howsoever, let’s get started with some typical Irish food items. First of all, one of the most important basic food in Ireland is the potato since a lot of meals are based on it. Other common vegetables are cabbage, tomatoes and carrots. As for grains wheat is dominating. Of course meat is also part of Ireland’s food especially beef, pork but also chicken and lamb.

To get to the real meals, a rather traditional one is corned beef with cabbage. It mainly consists of corned beef and cabbage as its name already say but potatoes, onions and carrots are usually added as well. Cooking this dish is rather easy, however, takes a lot of time since you have to stew it for about seven hours.

I found a recipe for corned beef and cabbage on this website: http://www.food.com/recipe/slow-cooker-corned-beef-and-cabbage-205367


Another traditional dish is soda bread. Although soda bread is present in a few cuisines of different countries it can be seen as typical Irish since there is a very own version popular in Ireland containing raisins. Other than usual bread it doesn’t contain yeast but baking soda and buttermilk instead.

If you like to try to make it at home I’ve found a recipe for the typical Irish soda bread: http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Irish-Soda-Bread/Detail.aspx?evt19=1


Another element of the Irish cuisine is not a meal but a beverage. Any clue? No, I’m not talking about Guinness which would be typically Irish as well but about Irish coffee. This hot beverage combines two very different drinks black coffee and whiskey. Normally it also comes with whipped cream on top but traditionally this cream shouldn’t be whipped, though.

Here is a recipe for Irish coffee and the website also talks a little about the history of this beverage: http://cocktails.about.com/od/atozcocktailrecipes/r/irsh_cfe_cktl.htm


Of course there are many more but for now these should be enough.

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