Colcannon Mash With Blue Cheese Recipes

COLCANNON RECIPE

Steps:

• Boil the potatoes with the garlic for 15 - 20 minutes until cooked through.
• While the potatoes are cooking, melt 100g of the butter in a small frying pan and saute the cabbage and spring onions for 3 - 4 minutes until softened.
• Drain the potatoes and mash (leave the garlic in).
• Add the cabbage and spring onions (including the butter they were cooked in) to the potatoes.
• Meanwhile warm the remaining butter and cream until the butter is melted (I do this in the pan I fried the cabbage in). Add to the potato and cabbage mixture.
• Add the chives and plenty of salt and pepper and stir until throughly combined. Serve immediately with extra butter and chives to garnish.

FABULOUS COLCANNON (MASHED POTATOES AND CABBAGE)

Steps:

• Place potatoes into a large pot and cover with salted water. Bring to a boil, set heat to medium-low, and simmer until tender, about 20 minutes. Drain potatoes and transfer to a large mixing bowl.
• Stir milk, mayonnaise, and butter into potatoes. Mash with a potato masher until smooth.
• Cook and stir bacon in a large skillet over medium heat until fat is rendered, 3 to 5 minutes.
• Stir onion, garlic, and cayenne pepper into bacon and drippings and cook, stirring often, until onions are translucent, about 5 minutes.
• Stir cabbage and water into onion mixture until cabbage is wilted, about 5 more minutes. Season with salt and black pepper.
• Fold cabbage mixture into mashed potatoes.
• Cook and stir ham pieces in the same skillet used for cabbage mixture until lightly browned, 3 to 5 minutes.
• Stir cooked ham into mashed potato and cabbage mixture until combined.

COLCANNON

Steps:

• In a large saucepan, boil cabbage until tender; remove and chop or blend well. Set aside and keep warm. Boil potatoes until tender. Remove from heat and drain.
• Chop leeks, green parts as well as white, and simmer them in just enough milk to cover, until they are soft.
• Season and mash potatoes well. Stir in cooked leeks and milk. Blend in the kale or cabbage and heat until the whole is a pale green fluff. Make a well in the center and pour in the melted butter. Mix well.

COLCANNON MASHED POTATOES

Steps:

• Place the potatoes and 2 tablespoons salt in a large pot. Add enough water to cover the potatoes by at least 1 inch and bring to a boil over high heat, then reduce to a simmer until the potatoes are cooked through and fork tender, 20 to 30 minutes.
• Meanwhile, heat the half-and-half, butter, garlic, 1 teaspoon salt and 1/2 teaspoon black pepper in a small saucepan over medium heat. Bring to a simmer, then turn off then heat and set aside.
• Drain the potatoes and pass through a ricer into a large bowl. Remove the garlic from the half-and-half mixture. Stir the half-and-half mixture, cabbage, three-quarters of the green onions and salt and pepper to taste into the potatoes until combined. Top with the remaining green onions and extra pepper.

CREAM CHEESE COLCANNON

Steps:

• Place potatoes in a large pot and cover with salted water. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat to medium-low and simmer until tender, 15-20 minutes. Drain and reserve the cooking liquid. Allow potatoes to cool until they can be handled.
• Boil cabbage and onion with the reserved potato water in a pot until softened, about 5 minutes. Drain.
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease a 2-qt. casserole dish. Peel and cut potatoes into chunks, place in a large bowl. Mash skim milk and butter into potatoes until mixture is smooth. Stir drained cabbage and onion into potato mixture. Fold cream cheese, salt and black pepper into potato mixture, stirring until the cream cheese melts.
• Pour potato mixture into prepared casserole dish. Bake in a preheated oven until browned, 30-35 minutes.

COLCANNON

Steps:

• Tip the potatoes into a large saucepan of water. Bring to the boil, then simmer for 15-20 mins, or until the flesh is tender when pierced.
• Meanwhile, heat quarter of the butter in a saucepan, then fry the bacon and half the cabbage for 5 mins (see Kevin's tip, below, for how to use remaining cabbage). Turn off the heat and set aside. Drain potatoes in a colander and peel while still hot.
• Mash potato until smooth. Heat cream with remaining butter and, when almost boiling, beat into the potato. Add bacon and cabbage to potato and mix. Season if you want.