Irish Champ

Champ is a streamlined, simplified Colcannon: Traditional Irish mashed potatoes mixed with cream/milk and chopped green onions -without cabbage or greens. Delicious!

3 lbs. peeled potatoes, halved or quartered

1 cup milk

1 cup chopped green onions

6 Tbsp. butter, melted and kept warm

Salt and pepper

• Boil the potatoes in salted water until soft.

• When potatoes are nearly done, bring the milk to a very low simmer in a saucepan.

• Drain potatoes and mash thoroughly.

• While mashing potatoes, toss onions into milk to get them warmed.

• Add warm milk and onions to the mashed potatoes, along with half the melted butter.

• Season with salt and pepper to taste.

• Pile the potatoes into your serving dish, make a dent in the center, and pour in the remaining butter- creating a “butter puddle”, as my Irish grandmother would say!

Colcannon Recipe

Recipe created or adapted by Liz Talley, Urban Graze

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