by Kathy Hamman Miller
Colcannon is a very tasty, traditional Irish dish made of potatoes, cabbage and kale. If you’re looking to bring a dish to pass that would be a new hit, this will bring the smiles for sure!
Ingredients:
2 lbs. of red potatoes peeled and quartered
1/4 teaspoon garlic powder or 3 cloves
Pinch of salt
8 slices of bacon
1/4 medium green cabbage sliced thin
1 cup kale chopped
1 tablespoon cracked pepper
1/2 cup (1 stick) salted butter
1/4 cup melted salted butter for topping
2 Tablespoons chives cut fine
Directions:
Put the potatoes on to boil with a pinch of salt and the garlic until fork tender. Fry eight pieces of bacon in a large skillet until nice and crispy. Cut into one inch pieces and set aside saving the bacon grease.
Using the saved bacon grease fry the chopped kale and thinly sliced cabbage until it’s just soft. This took me about five minutes. Turn off the burner and set aside. When your potatoes are done, drain and add them to your large skillet with the softened kale and cabbage adding the pepper, stick of butter, and bacon heating the entire mixture thoroughly.
Spoon potatoes into a serving dish, making a depression in the top of the mashed potatoes, add the melted 1/4 cup of the butter. Sprinkle on the chives.
Tradition is to take a fork full of potatoes and dip them in the melted butter. Enjoy!
