Colcannon

Submitted by gailanng

"There's not an Irish bone in my body, but I love colcannon. I'm, also, not a kale kind of gal so I prefer colcannon with cabbage. Your kids will surprisingly love this."

 

• Ready In: 40mins
• Ingredients: 10
• Serves: 6-8

ingredients

• 3 lbs russet potatoes, peeled
• 1 tablespoon kosher salt
• 1 cup unsalted butter, divided
• 1 cup whole milk
• 1 small head green cabbage, cored and shredded
• 1 small onion, chopped
• 1⁄2 lb bacon (optional and may use pepper bacon)
• 4 scallions, finely sliced (green onions)
• kosher salt & freshly ground black pepper
• 3 tablespoons chopped flat leaf parsley

directions

1. Quarter potatoes. Add to a stockpot and cover with cold water. Add 1 tablespoon kosher salt. Bring to a boil and cook until tender, about 20 minutes.
2. Cook bacon in skillet, drain, reserve drippings and crumble bacon, set bacon aside.
3. In drippings saute cabbage and onion until soft and translucent, about 10 minutes.
4. Mash potatoes with milk and butter, stir in bacon, cabbage, onions.
5. Salt and pepper to taste.
6. Place in a serving bowl and sprinkle with parsley.

Reviews

[Lavender Lynn]

Eats like the richest of mashed potatoes, but includes lots of vegetables and, of course, bacon. This was a giant project (along with Recipe#141522) and it produced a delicious plate of comfort food with a definite Scots-Irish accent. We all loved it! Made for ZWT8.

 

[LifeIsGood]

Yep! This is a winner. I loveddddddd the cabbage sauteed in the bacon fat. That, combined with mashed potatoes and bacon. Heaven on a plate. I didn't put much of the cabbage into the mashed potatoes because my kids dislike that particular ingredient (they don't know that they're missing!). So I had leftover braised cabbage for the next day. Yum! Made for ZWT8 Great Britain

 

[DailyInspiration]

What a great combination of the two things I love - cabbage and mashed potatoes! This is a great comfort food and I now realize why it is such a popular dish! DH loved it; although, I had to fight him off the bacon before I could crumble it up. Will definitely make this dish again! Made for ZWT-8-Great Britain/Ireland.

 

[I'mPat]

Super delicious and so smooth and creamy and love the addition of the cabbage and onion and to me the bacon is a must (Ichopped mine up and then cooked - find that is easier than crumbling). I scaled it back to 3 serves and used 1 1/4lb of Carisma potatoes (low GI potatoes) and the rest of the ingredients as per recipe for that quantity and still ended up with a serve left over (which the DM has claimed for breakfast and requested potatoe pancakes. Thank you gailanng, made for Everyday A Holiday tag game.