Irish potato bread, or farls, is a staple everyone should know how to cook. Simple to make using only four ingredients, potato, flour, butter, and salt. They are the perfect accompaniment to an Ulster Fry (Irish Breakfast).
I learnt how to make potato bread from my late Irish mother-in-law. It has been a staple in our household for over three decades. I warn you, once you start making this simple bread you will be hooked.
Not a light and fluffy loaf of bread, they are flat and fried. More like potato pancakes or pan-fried flatbread. They are addictive and delicious. When I make a batch, they disappear a little too quickly.
Irish Brown Potato Bread Recipe
You will see below that I use what I have on hand to make this recipe. It isn't a fussy recipe, or hard to make, and there is wiggle room regarding recipe execution.
The great thing about this recipe is you can jazz it up a little if you want. Change the shape, thickness, even add some extra ingredients.
You can see from the photos that I make my Irish potato bread on the thin side. Of course you can make it thicker if you desire. Half a centimeter or just under a quarter of an inch is my optimal thickness as an accompaniment to a breakfast fry up. At that thickness, they will mop up runny egg yolks magically.
Irish Potato Bread (irish Potato Cakes Or Farls)
Instead of rolling out balls and cutting them into quarters save time and roll out two larger oblongs of dough. Then cut into desired-sized squarish pieces. Or get the kids involved and use cookie cutters and cut out fun shapes.
I tend to not jazz my Irish potato bread up too much. Simply as I like the taste as they are. Saying that, the dough is a great base recipe to jazz up with some flavour tweaks.
If you are adding extra ingredients to spruce your Irish potato bread up, now is the time to do so. Further information above or in the recipe card's note section.
Irish Cheddar Potato Rolls
3mm (one eight of an inch) for thin, or half a centimeter (just under a quarter of an inch) for thicker bread.
Fry on one side until golden, then turn them over with a spatular. Once the other side is golden and the bread is cooked through remove from the pan.
Place the cooked Irish potato bread on a tray in the oven on low heat to keep warm. Make sure to cover the bread with aluminium foil to stop them from drying out while cooking the remainder of the bread.
Super Simple Authentic Irish Potato Bread
All oven temperatures are for a conventional oven, if using fan forced lower the temperature by 20 Deg C (70 Deg F).
The recipe's nutritional information is an approximation based on an online calculator. It is meant solely for reference purposes. If you're looking for precise details, be sure to double-check with your own research.
Calories: 150 kcal Carbohydrates: 24 g Protein: 3 g Fat: 4 g Saturated Fat: 3 g Trans Fat: 1 g Cholesterol: 11 mg Sodium: 36 mg Potassium: 35 mg Fiber: 1 g Sugar: 1 g Vitamin A: 125 IU Calcium: 6 mg Iron: 1 mg
Gluten Free Irish Potato Bread (potato Farls Or Fadge)
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My recipes are like my children, I love them all. But just like kids, you DO have favourites. Some of mine are below including my corned beef recipe and piragi (Latvian bacon buns).Easy 4-ingredient Irish Potato Bread! Also known as Irish Farls, Fadge, or potato cakes! Made on a hot griddle with leftover mashed potato, this gluten-free, vegan, and allergy-free potato bread recipe is a delicious, simple, and quick side dish, breakfast, or snack! Soft and crisp, eggless mashed potato bread can be enjoyed savory or sweet!
The Irish know their potatoes and they know their bread too! But, who knew that when you combine the two, you get one of the most simple and delicious potato breads imaginable! Traditional Irish potato bread can go by many names depending on the region and exact preparation. All following the frugal, minimalist mindset of the Irish, the simplicity of potato and flour yields a delicious, moist, and nutritious bread with so many applications!
Irish Potato Bread
Traditional Irish Potato Bread can go by many different names depending on the region and exact preparation. Essentially, the potato replaces part of the flour used for the bread. The white, floury type of potato that was abundant in Ireland lent itself to being a fantastic and economical replacement for flour in bread and cakes. However, Irish potato bread isn't the typical bread you're probably thinking of. No loaf pan is needed because there is no yeast, allowing the bread to be fried up on a flat pan as a griddle bread, which makes it different from the potato breads of other countries across Europe and South America, or the oft confused Scottish tattie scone.
Potato bread is different than boxty because it uses already cooked, mashed potato. Boxty uses finely grated raw potato, giving it more of a hashbrown texture and pan-fried like a typical pancake, commonly with buttermilk and egg included in the batter.
Russet potatoes are the best type of potatoes to use for potato bread. Simply peeled, boiled, and mashed smooth with a potato masher or potato ricer. Using a potato ricer will give you a super smooth mash without any extra work. If you want to cut out the set of boiling your own potatoes, you can use whole canned potatoes. Note that you will need about 1 pound of whole potatoes.
Delicious Irish Potato Brown Bread Made In A Bread Machine
You can add some extra flavor to your plain Irish farls by including some spices and herbs like onion or garlic powder. Use some dried parsley, dill, or rosemary for a delicious earthy, warming flavor! You can even think about adding in some vegan cheese shreds, parmesan, or nutritional yeast for a naturally dairy-free cheesy flavor. Add in more veggies by grating in some zucchini or carrot! Make the dough sweet by adding in some cinnamon or a touch of sweetener. You can also add chopped apple to make these more like fadge cakes!
You may have heard of a full English breakfast, well, the Irish version is called a full Ulster fry. Potato farls are an essential part of the full Ulster! The traditional Northern Irland breakfast includes fried bacon, sausages, black pudding, mushrooms, tomato, and eggs served with fried soda bread and potato farls. Sure, you can serve these alone with toppings, but why not make it a full breakfast with vegan bacon, eggless omelettes and scrambles, or some hearty grilled veggie steaks!
Ah, yes! Simple delicious and kind of like a breadier french fry? Any potato lover will LOVE this simple traditional Irish potato bread! Farls, fadge, whatever you want to call it, this quick and easy recipe will be a hit!Irish potato bread most likely isn’t the typical type of potato bread you’re thinking of, it’s a delicious potato pancake that’s popular in Ireland and Northern Ireland. Delicious for breakfast and eaten for any meal!
Irish Potato Cakes (potato Farls)
If you’ve never had Scottish potato scones, or Irish potato bread, you are really and truly missing out! They’re essentially the same, but have different names in different locations. Even within Ireland, some call them potato bread and others call them potato cakes or farls.
Regardless of what they are called, they’re so incredibly tasty, especially when fried in the same pan where your bacon was just fried! Oh yes, it’s the thing to do!
Yes, mashed potatoes are great for making Irish potato bread! This is probably how this recipe originated, to be honest. Although there’s normally milk in mashed potatoes, it doesn’t matter, you can just add more flour to get a non-sticky consistency.
Traditional Irish Potato Bread [with Video]
In case you’re looking for a different Irish potato recipe, it may be Irish boxty you’re looking for? They are different as they contain raw and mashed potatoes. I have a delicious Irish boxty recipe, too!
Use a potato ricer to rice the potatoes, if you have one. If not, just mash them, but your potato bread will come out better if you use a ricer.
Gently fold over until smooth. Divide into two equal portions and form each into a ball. Roll one ball out to about 1/3″ thick, then cut into quarters with a large knife or cake lifter. Repeat with the second measure of dough.
Authentic Irish Potato Farls Recipe
Heat a pan or griddle to medium to medium high. When hot, begin cooking the Irish potato bread (do not use oil or butter.) When brown on both sides, place on a clean tea towel and cover.
These are fully cooked and may be eaten as is, but traditionally, they are fried in the same pan as the bacon was fried in. Decadently delicious is all I can say!
Add bacon, eggs, toast and more for a full Irish breakfast! (If you add beans, it’s not an authentic Irish fry-up, thanks to Martin Devlin for kindly informing me.)
Potato Farls (irish Potato Cakes)
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