Irish Mashed Potatoes aka Colcannon
Colcannon potatoes are an easy and tasty Irish dish generally made with russet potatoes, green cabbage, leeks and served with lots of butter.
Ingredients
- 2 pounds russet potatoes peeled and sliced
- cold water for boiling potatoes (making sure to cover with water at least on-inch over the potatoes)
- 1 Tablespoon salt (use 1/2 Tablespoon to boil potatoes and 1/2 Tablespoon when mashing potatoes)
- 1 leek sliced and rinsed well (use the white and light green parts)
- 1 1/2 cups whole milk
- 8 Tablespoons butter divided
- 10 large leaves of green cabbage sliced and cut into squares
Instructions
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Prepare cabbage and leeks
Place milk into a medium saucepan. Add sliced cabbage and leeks to milk and sauté over medium heat stirring occasionally until ingredients are soft. Do this while the preparing the potatoes.
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Prepare Potatoes
Place potatoes into a large pot with salt and add water. Bring pot to a boil and cook until potatoes are fork tender. Drain water from potatoes. Do this by placing a colander in the sink and carefully pour hot water and potatoes into the colander. Pour drained potatoes back into the large pot. Mash potatoes with a wooden potato masher a few times. I say wooden potato masher because that’s what I normally use but mash’em however you do but don’t whip them.
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Combine Ingredients
Next, add the sauteed cabbage and leek mixture along with the milk to the mashed potatoes and stir to combine. Place potatoes into a serving bowl. Make a divot in the center of the potatoes and place butter or Irish butter in the divot and allow butter to melt. Serve and enjoy!