Champ (Irish Mashed Potatoes with Green Onion)
Recipe Number: 1431
Contributor: bettyinthekitchen
Rating: Recipe Unrated
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4
Calories Per Serving: -
Preparation Time: -
Difficulty: Easy
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| Ingredients: |
2 lb russet potatoes, peeled, cut into 1-inch pieces
1/2 cup whipping cream (milk is fine)
1/4 cup (1/2 stick) butter
1 bunch green onions, sliced (about 1 1/3 cups) |
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Cook potatoes in pot of boiling salted water until very tender, about 15 minutes.
Meanwhile, bring cream and butter to simmer in heavy small saucepan over medium heat, stirring often. Mix in green onions. Remove from heat. Cover and let steep while potatoes cook.
Drain potatoes thoroughly. Return potatoes to same pot and mash. Add cream mixture and stir until blended. Season to taste with salt and pepper. (Can be prepared 2 hours ahead. Cover; let stand at room temperature. Reheat over low heat, stirring often.)
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| This is perfect with Corned Beef and Cabbage, or anytime you need mashed potatoes. |
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The traditional implement used for pounding potatoes was a wooden masher, pestle-shaped, called a "beetle." The poem says:
There was an old woman
that lived in a lamp;
she had no room
to beetle her champ.
She's up'd with her beetle
and broke the lamp,
and now she has room
to beetle her champ.
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