Irish · Breakfast
Boxty
- Intermediate
- 45 min
- roughly 3 of 4 for cost
- Vegetarian
Leads with richness that coats and comforts, wood-smoke running underneath.
Ingredients
- 250g raw potato, grated + 250g cooked mashed potato
- 150g flour, 1 tsp baking powder, 1 tsp salt
- ~200ml buttermilk
- Butter for the pan
- Smoked salmon and crème fraîche, or bacon and eggs, to serve
Equipment
Grater / zester
The skills inside
The words inside
Allergen screen
Found: gluten · dairy · egg · fish
Screened for: gluten, dairy, egg, nuts, peanuts, fish, shellfish, molluscs, soy, sesame, celery, mustard, lupin, alcohol. Not screened: sulphites.
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Method
- Squeeze grated raw potato in a towel; save the liquid, let starch settle, add starch back.
- Mix raw, mash, flour and buttermilk into a thick batter.
- Fry pancakes in butter, medium heat, 4 min a side. 4 min
- Serve stacked with the topping of your allegiance.
How to tell it is going right
This dish has no standard of its own yet. It is judged on the technique it exercises: checked at the pan, while there is still something to be done about it.
Mashing & puréeing 114 recipes
- Smooth to the degree the dish asks for, judged on the tongue rather than by eye: no lumps, no fibres, no grit, unless texture is the point.
- No gluey elasticity: a spoonful drops cleanly off the spoon rather than stretching in a rope behind it.
- The consistency holds: it mounds on a spoon and stays there, neither slumping flat nor standing so stiff that a spoon has to cut it.
- Nothing separates on the plate: no water or fat weeping out into a ring within a minute of serving.
- The colour is even throughout, with no streaks of unincorporated fat, liquid, or seasoning at the edges of the bowl.
Where it goes wrong A starchy ingredient met a high-speed blade, so the cells burst and released their starch: what should be light comes out as an elastic glue that lifts off the spoon in one mass.
At the Table
- The Pour
- Mimosa (weekends only)
- Also Right
- Cava, straight
- From the Taps
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- Zero-Proof
- Fresh orange juice & café au lait
Morning food wants brightness and bubbles, or honest coffee: nothing that argues before noon.
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