Boxty
Easy
Boxty – Recipe from Brian McDermott’s cookbook Traditional Irish Cooking For Today. This is mainly an Ulster dish and has made a great comeback in recent years and rightly so. Rosti, which is a similar dish, has been produced in restaurants for years, but traditional boxty with buttermilk is a much more flavoursome Irish version.
PREP IN
5 MIN
COOK IN
15 MIN
SERVE
8
Boxty
Easy
PREP IN
5 MIN
COOK IN
15 MIN
SERVE
8
Introduction
Boxty – Recipe from Brian McDermott’s cookbook Traditional Irish Cooking For Today. This is mainly an Ulster dish and has made a great comeback in recent years and rightly so. Rosti, which is a similar dish, has been produced in restaurants for years, but traditional boxty with buttermilk i
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Ingredients
- 1 kg potatoes
- 320ml buttermilk
- 160g plain flour
- 1 tbsp sugar
- ¼ tsp bread soda
- 140 g butter
Method
- 1. Grate the potatoes and place in a clean tea towel. Squeeze all the water out of the potatoes, then place in a large bowl.
- 2. Immediately pour 270 ml of the buttermilk onto the potato to prevent it from discolouring. Add the flour with the sugar and mix into the potato and buttermilk until you have a thick batter consistency.
- 3. Dissolve the bread soda in the remaining 50 ml of buttermilk, add to the mix and combine well.
- 4. Heat a large frying pan and melt 50 g of butter on a medium heat. Add 4 good spoonfuls of the potato mix, leaving some space between them, and cook for 3 minutes on each side or until golden brown. Repeat with another 50 g of butter and the rest of the potato mix.
- 5. Serve with the remaining butter on top. Brian’s Tip Serve with grilled bacon and a poached egg for one of the greatest breakfasts ever. Or make a large one the size of a frying pan and top with eggs, tomato and honey.
