Irish

Bacon and Cabbage

Name: Bacon and Cabbage
Total time: 1 h 40 min
Yield: 6 servings
Cuisine: Irish
Ingredients: 3 lb gammon joint; 1 cabbage; 2 lb potato; 2 carrots; 2 tbsp butter; 2 tbsp all purpose flour; 1 cup milk; 1/4 tsp black pepper

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Bacon and Cabbage is Irish home cooking, eaten at dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

100 min Medium

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

3 lb gammon joint
1 cabbage
2 lb potato
2 carrots
2 tbsp butter
2 tbsp all purpose flour
1 cup milk
1/4 tsp black pepper

How to cook it

Place the gammon in a large pot, cover with water, and bring to a boil, skimming any foam.
Reduce to a simmer, cover, and cook until tender, about 1 hour 15 minutes.
Meanwhile peel and cube the potato and boil in salted water until fork tender, about 15 minutes, then drain and mash with a splash of the milk.
Shred the cabbage and add to the pot with the gammon along with the whole carrots for the last 20 minutes of cooking.
Melt the butter in a small saucepan, whisk in the flour, cook for a minute, then whisk in the remaining milk and simmer to a smooth parsley-white sauce, about 5 minutes.
Slice the gammon, drain the cabbage and carrots, and serve with the mashed potato and sauce spooned over.

Watch how to cook Bacon and Cabbage

Someone making it start to finish, so you can see what the steps look like.

Making a Traditional Irish Dinner - Bacon & Cabbage with Parsley Sauce Play the video

Serve it with

A Irish dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Bacon and Cabbage, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

What it is eaten with
- Champ
  
  30 min

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Bacon and Cabbage carries dairy and gluten. It is free of the remaining 8 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Bacon and Cabbage
Allergen	In this dish	Cook this instead
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	Yes	Bacon and Egg Salad with Baby Potatoes
Gluten	Yes	Bacon and Egg Salad with Baby Potatoes
Shellfish	No
Eggs	No
Soy	No
Fish	No
Sesame	No
Coconut	No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Estimated, per serving

Calories: 570 kcal
Protein: 52 g
Carbs: 40 g
Fat: 22 g
Fiber: 5 g
Sugar: 3 g
Sodium: 1500 mg
Saturated fat: 10 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Bacon and Cabbage takes about 100 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at dinner. It is at its best in winter, which is when what goes into it is worth buying.