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How To make Boxty (Potato Griddle Cakes) (Irish)
1/2 lb Raw potato
1/2 lb Mashed potato
1/2 lb Plain flour
1 x Milk
1 ea Egg
1 x Salt and pepper
Grate raw potatoes and mix with the cooked mashed potatoes. Add salt, pepper and flour. Beat egg and add to mixture with just enough milk to make a batter that will drop from a spoon. Drop by tablespoonfuls onto a hot griddle or frying pan. Cook over a moderate heat for 3-4 minutes on each side. Serve with a tart apple sauce: or as part of an Ulster Fry, with fried bacon, fried sausage, fried eggs, fried black pudding, fried bread, fried soda bread... . An old poem says: . Boxty on the griddle, boxty in the pan, if you can't make boxty, you'll never get a man. . (The accuracy of the poem is uncertain.)
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Irish Potato Pancakes: A Recipe for Boxty
Traditional irish potato pancakes, like a cross between a hashbrown, a biscuit and a pancake. Crispy on the outside, creamy on the inside, and perfect for an authentic St Patrick's Day breakfast, or appetizer at St Patrick's Day party.
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Irish cooking -- Boxty
In the last decade, Ireland has made a giant gastronomic leap. A new crop of young chefs are turning high-quality, homegrown ingredients into sophisticated and unique meals, and new restaurants are popping up all the time.
One of the Ireland's traditional dishes is potato based boxty
In this video, Padraic Óg Gallagher from Gallagher's Boxty house in Dublin shows how to make it.
There are many variations on boxty, but if you want to make it yourself, you can use the following recipe:
Ingredients:
8 oz/ 250 g/ 1 cup raw potato
8 oz/ 250 g/ 1 cup mashed potato
8 oz/ 250 g/ 2 cups plain flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
large knob of butter, melted
about 1/4 pt/ 125 ml/ 1/2 cup milk
Method:
Grate the raw potatoes into a bowl. Turn out onto a cloth and wring, catching the liquid. This will separate into a clear fluid with starch at the bottom. Pour off the fluid and scrape out the starch and mix with the grated and mashed potatoes. Sieve the dry ingredients and mix in along with the melted butter. Add a little milk if necessary to make a pliable dough. Knead lightly on a floured surface. Divide into four and form large, flat cakes. Mark each into quarters but do not cut right through, and bake on a griddle or in a heavy pan. If liked, more milk and an egg can be added to make a batter which can be fried in bacon fat like drop scones.
(Recipe courtesy the Appletree Press title: A Little Irish Cookbook.)
What you need to make a boxty cake
Boxty is a traditional Irish potato cake, it is said to have originated during the Irish famine
Made with a mixture of cooked and raw potatoes, boxty was created as a way to use a few readily available ingredients to produce different results. It can take the shape of bread, pancakes or dumplings.
It can be fried on a griddle or baked in an oven.
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Chef Padraic Og Gallagher - How to Make Boxty | Milwaukee Irish Fest At Home 2020
Chef Padraic Og Gallagher, owner of The Boxty House Restaurant in the heart of Dublin, Ireland, shows us how to make Boxty, a traditional Irish potato pancake dish, for the 2020 Milwaukee Irish Fest At Home live stream program. Learn more about Milwaukee Irish Fest by visiting irishfest.com.
Boxty
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Boxty is just what the Irish call their traditional potato griddle cakes. Our boxty recipe is so authentic, it'll take your taste buds all the way to the Emerald Isle. Serve these potato pancakes with a little gravy and enjoy!
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