Irish

Boxty

Name: Boxty
Total time: 35 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Irish
Ingredients: 1 lb potato; 1 cup mashed potato, cooked and cooled; 1 cup all purpose flour; 1/2 tsp baking soda; 1/2 cup buttermilk; 2 tbsp vegetable oil; 1/2 tsp salt

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Boxty is Irish home cooking, eaten at breakfast and lunch. On the plate it is the carb everything else is eaten with. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

35 min Medium Vegetarian Pescatarian

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

1 lb potato
1 cup mashed potato, cooked and cooled
1 cup all purpose flour
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 cup buttermilk
2 tbsp vegetable oil
1/2 tsp salt

How to cook it

Peel and finely grate the raw potato, then squeeze out as much liquid as possible in a clean towel.
Mix the grated potato with the mashed potato, flour, baking soda, and salt.
Stir in the buttermilk to make a thick, spoonable batter.
Heat the oil in a large skillet over medium heat and spoon in the batter to form pancakes.
Fry until golden and cooked through, about 4 minutes per side.
Serve hot.

Watch how to cook Boxty

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

Ireland’s Crispy Potato Pancake (A 200 Year Old Recipe) Play the video

Serve it with

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

The dish at the centre
- Bacon and Egg Salad with Baby Potatoes
  
  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. Boxty carries dairy and gluten. It is free of the remaining 8 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Boxty
Allergen	In this dish	Cook this instead
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	Yes	Nothing comparable without it yet
Gluten	Yes	Champ
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: 300 kcal
Protein: 8 g
Carbs: 53 g
Fat: 6 g
Fiber: 5 g
Sugar: 2 g
Sodium: 460 mg
Saturated fat: 1 g

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

When to cook it

Boxty takes about 35 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at breakfast and lunch. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.