St. Patrick's Day isn't known as a holiday that reaches great culinary heights. Fair enough. But it does have a food component. So if you want great corned beef, creamy mashed potatoes, and delicious cabbage, we have the recipes you need.
What even is corned beef? We can help. Photo via Shutterstock.
Corned Beef with Cabbage
Darina Allen of Ballymaloe Cooking School in Ireland shared this recipe with us. It comes from her book, Irish Traditional Cooking. Get the recipe
You can't go wrong with buttery mashed potatoes. Photo by Megumi Nachev/Unsplash.
Evan Kleiman's Mashed Potatoes
Did you think Good Food host Evan Kleiman's skills were limited to pasta and Italian fare? Think again. She has tips for achieving the perfect mashed potatoes. Get the recipe
Colcannon is one way to kick mashed potatoes up a notch. Photo via Shutterstock.
Colcannon
When you want to do something sassier with your potatoes than just mashing them, consider colcannon, a traditional Irish dish with four standard ingredients: potatoes, cabbage, butter and milk. Once again, we turn to Darina Allen and her book, Irish Traditional Cooking. You don't need a holiday to serve it. Get the recipe
Cabbage Umami Bomb
Boiled cabbage? Banish the thought. This Asian-style recipe uses soy sauce, vinegar, sesame oil, garlic and ginger to add some oomph to cabbage. Get the recipe
Amy Thielen has been perfecting her braised cabbage recipe since working with Austrian cooks at Danube in New York City. Photo by Kristin Teig.
Citrusy braised red cabbage
"I learned to make this dish from some crazy Austrian chefs who were not afraid to reduce two bottles of very good Blaufränkish to make braised red cabbage," Amy Thielen says. "They taught me that braised red cabbage balances on the top of three poles: sweetness from the caramelized onions and burnt sugar, acidity from the citrus juices, and dark, buttery earth from the reduced chicken stock, wine, and the cabbage itself." She recommends that you let the cabbage cook for a long time, until it loses any spring it has left. You'll find more recipes in her latest book, Company: The Radically Casual Art of Cooking for Others. Get the recipe
Cheesy Hasselback Potato Gratin
You can never have too many potato options to celebrate a (nominally) Irish holiday, right? The recipe, created by J. Kenji López-Alt and adapted by Emily Weinstein, is a "golden and glorious mash-up of potato gratin and Hasselback potatoes [that] has been engineered to give you both creamy potato and singed edge in each bite. The principal innovation here is placing the sliced potatoes in the casserole dish vertically, on their edges, rather than laying them flat as in a standard gratin, in order to get those crisp ridges on top," Weinstein explains. Get the recipe
Pastry chef JR Ryall says St. Patrick’s Day is very much a family holiday in Ireland. This year, he shares his recipe for his Irish coffee meringue. Photo by Cliodhna Prendergast.
Irish Coffee Meringue Gâteau
In this cake, the cream is flavored with Irish whiskey and the meringue is flavored with coffee. JR Ryall, pastry chef at Ballymaloe House in County Cork, Ireland, assembles it a few hours before he plans to serve it in order to give the boozy cream a chance to slightly soften the meringue. His book, Ballymaloe Desserts: Iconic Recipes and Stories from Ireland, features more treats from the famous Ballymaloe dessert trolley. Get the recipe