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Boxty

Name: Boxty
Total time: 40 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Ireland
Ingredients: 4 Potato; 100g All-purpose flour; 100ml Milk; 1 tsp Baking Powder; 1 tsp Salt; 30g Butter; To taste Sour cream

Side Dish

⏱ 40 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐

Grated raw potato and mashed potato combined and griddled — Ireland's chewy potato pancake.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Boxty is a potato dish from northwest Ireland made by mixing grated raw potato, mashed potato, and flour and frying it. It's so rooted in home life that an old rhyme says a girl who can't make boxty on the pan will never get a man. It's eaten for breakfast or as a snack with bacon and sour cream.

🌆 Where it's eaten: On a Sunday morning, boxty cooks one after another in the family frying pan and lands on breakfast plates with bacon and fried eggs.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Potato 4
All-purpose flour 100g
Milk 100ml
Baking Powder 1 tsp
Salt 1 tsp
Butter 30g
Sour cream To taste

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Boil and mash 2 potatoes.
Grate the remaining 2 raw and squeeze out the liquid firmly in a cloth.
Mix the grated potato, mashed potato, flour, baking powder, salt, and milk.
Heat butter in a frying pan, pour in rounds of batter, and cook over medium heat for 4 minutes per side.
They're done when golden on both sides.
Serve with sour cream.

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