Our Traditional Irish Colcannon recipe (potatoes + cabbage) comes straight from the family archives in County Cork Ireland. Otherwise, known as The People’s Republic of Cork. It’s a place of absolute beauty and where you’ll discover Irish cooking at its finest.
Colcannon is the perfect dish for St. Patrick’s Day. Leave it to the Irish to dream up a cream enriched potato dish! There are many variants as there are Irishmen, ours is conventional fare made up of potatoes, thinly sliced cabbage, kale, green onions, milk, butter, cream, salt, and pepper.
But we did cheat a little using the Instant Pot! Who doesn’t love the fact you can cook an entire meal in a couple of hours as opposed to an entire day. You know I love cooking and spend my days in the kitchen, but sometimes we just have to jam it out and this was one of those days!
Plus we made our Guinness Braised Corned Beef and then used the drippings to cook the mash. Literally an entire meal in a pot, perfect!
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Can I use Kale in Colcannon?
Yes, in fact many recipes call for kale! Older versions trace back to using green cabbage (as ours does) but Kale is a great choice as well.
Chef’s Tip: You can also swap out the green onions for white onions, shallots or leeks if you prefer.
How to Make Colcannon on the Stovetop
- Boil the potatoes: Add the whole scrubbed potatoes to a medium heavy-bottomed pot and cover with cold water by an inch. Add 2 tablespoons of Kosher sea salt, and bring to a boil. Boil until the potatoes pierce easily with a knife, 15 to 20 minutes. Drain in a colander.
- Cook the cabbage with butter: Return the pot to the stove and set over medium-high heat. Melt a Tablespoon of butter in the pot and once it’s hot, add the cabbage. Cook the cabbage for 3-4 minutes, or until wilted and have released some moisture.
- Mash the potatoes with milk or cream and greens: Once the potatoes are cool enough to handle. Slip the skins off of them and dice into chunks, add to the pot. Pour half of the warm cream in and mash the potatoes + cabbage, and green onions, adding more cream as necessary until the desired consistency is reached. Mash will be “lumpy”. Season with Kosher sea salt and pepper to taste.
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How to Make Traditional Irish Colcannon
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Traditional Irish Colcannon
Prep Time
10 mins
Cook Time
35 mins
Total Time
45 mins
Our Traditional Irish Colcannon recipe comes straight from the family archives in County Cork Ireland.Colcannon is the perfect dish for St. Patricks Day. Leave it to the Irish to dream up a cream enriched potato dish!
Category:Dinner
Cuisine:Irish
Keyword:Traditional Irish Colcannon
Servings: 8 people
Author: Mean Green Chef
Ingredients
- 2.5lbsmedium sized Idaho Potatoes,whole + washed + skin on
- 8Tablespoonsbutter
- 1/2cup (120 ml)milk,whole
- 1/2cup (123 ml)heavy cream
- 1medium headgreen cabbage,cored + roughly chopped
- 3cupskale,washed + roughly chopped
- 4scallions,chopped
- 2cupsstock from cooking corned beef,or stock of your choice
- Kosher sea salt + freshly cracked black pepper,to taste
Instructions
Add potatoes to Instant Pot with cooking stock, cover with lid, ensuring that the valve is set to sealed, press manual and set the cook time to 15-minutes.
While the potatoes cook. Warm butter, milk, cream and a few cracks of black pepper over low heat in a small saucepan.
After the timer goes off allow natural release for 5 minutes and then vent. Remove potatoes from the instant pot with tongs and set aside until cool enough to handle.
Add thinly sliced cabbage into the Instant Pot, replace the lid,ensuring that the valve is set to sealed, and set to manual high pressure 6 minutes.
As the cabbage cooks, slip the skins off of the potatoes and cube. Set aside.
Once the cabbage is done, press Cancel on the IP, safely do a QuickRelease by opening the valve to "Vent". After all of the pressure has been released open the lid. Scoop out the cabbage and set aside.
Pour the excess stock into a container and reserve for corned beef. Add the potatoes, cabbage, sliced green onions, and half of the cream mixture back into the Instant Pot. Using a hand masher, mash the Colcannon adding more cream until the desired consistency is reached, it should be "lumpy".
Serve warm with a knob of butter on top if desired and seasoned with Kosher sea salt and freshly cracked black pepper.
Recipe Notes
- Prep time is approximate.
- Mash only until Colcannon is blended, there will be "lumps".
- Best eaten the same day but can be stored in an airtight container up to 3 days.
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