Irish cuisine

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Irish cuisine

fresh ingredients (lamb, pork, beef, fish and seafood)

excellent salmon and trout

Irish cuisine is about MEAT and POTATOES

fast food meals such as fish and chips (fried fish with fries) are also popular

FOODIrish breakfast- similar to the English

breakfast(usually includes sausages, fried eggs,

sometimes fried tomato or mushrooms)with potato bread or toastwashed down with TEA

the equivalent of „Irish breakfast“ is the ULSTER FRY

IRISH STEWstewed meat (lamb or mutton meat) and

vegetables, potatoes, onions, carrots and parsley

national dish

COLCANNONconsisting primarly of mashed potatoes and

kale or cabbage (other ingredients: leeks, onion, chives, bacon, ham)

SHEPHARD ’ s PIEa meat pie with minced meat covered with

potato- cheese layer

SEAFOOD CHOWDERa thick soup with seafoodcontains milk or cream

BLACK PUDDINGpudding made of pork blood, grains and

spicessausage cut into slices and friedblack pudding is one of the basic components

of the Irish diet

POTATO BREADthin potato breadpotatoes are replaced with wheat flour

BLAAsoft bun sprinkled with flour mostly consumed in the morning with buttercontains various fillings

BARMBRACKsourdough bread with raisinstoasted with butter and washed down with a

cup of tea

IRISH CHEESESproduced on farms in Ireland for centuriesnowadays many of them have excellent qualityArdrahan, Gubbeen, Cashel Blue

DRINKINGIrish coffee a drink with hot coffee, Irish whiskey, sugar and cream

BEER like a national symbol and part of the Irish

society Guinness is an Irish classic – bitter dark beer

POTCHEENIrish spirits distilled from malted barley or

potatoesproduced for centuries illegally at homethe distillate had a high percentage of alcohol

(60-95%)production was officially banned until 1997now two officially licensed distilleriesnowadays "only" 40-45% of alcohol

BAILEYSIrish liqueur consists primarily of Irish

whiskey and creamBaileys is drunk with or without ice, added to

cocktails or coffee

IRISH WHISKEYone of the most famous Irish products and

export productsthe best-known brands of Irish whiskey are

Jameson and Bushmills