The traditional Irish breakfast incites memories of meals in kitchens that smell of freshly cooked meats, fried vegetables, and baked bread. It's the weekend! Treat yourself and the family and whip up this delicious traditional treat. Here are the top ten essentials for a full Irish breakfast: Irish sausage – an amalgamation of freshly ground beef or pork, seasoned with spices and layered with rusk – has been cooked in the frying pans of households for centuries.
Butchers fill collagen casings or pig intestines with seasoned meat, whose mild and zesty flavor caters to palettes that routinely disfavor piquant foods. How to cook: Pop the link in a pan or the oven until golden brown or slightly burnt. Sign up to IrishCentral's newsletter to stay up-to-date with everything Irish! Irish bacon , or rashers, refers typically to a cut of cured pork loin.
Butcher shops inject it with a salt-based rind and allow the loin to soak in a barrel for two to three days. An alternative – streaky bacon – uses a cut along the pig’s belly or slab. How to cook: Pop the rasher in pan or oven, until golden brown.
Black pudding, or blood pudding, is a unique blend of blood, pork, rusk and seasonings; white pudding replaces blood with liver, though it remains similar in almost every other way. Puddings are blanched previously. How to cook: slice, cook on a pan or in the oven, until crispy.
Full Irish breakfast. A fried egg also proves to be an essential for a traditional Irish breakfast. How.
