Irish mashed potatoes mixed with greens and scallions and lots of butter and cream.
Not surprisingly, the Irish have all sorts of ways of cooking potatoes, with festive names like
champ
, bruisy, pandy,
boxty
, and this one, colcannon.
In the following colcannon recipe, we mix the mashed potatoes in with chopped cooked kale, green onions, milk or cream, and lots of butter.
To serve one makes a depression in the middle of the mashed potatoes and puts a knob of butter in it. To eat it, you dip a forkful of the potatoes in the melted butter.
If ever there was a recipe to get one to eat one's greens, this is it.
We like this version from Elise Bauer on Simply Recipes.
