How to Serve a Traditional Irish Breakfast

An Irish breakfast will leave you full and satisfied. Traditionally, Irish wives prepared this large meal for their husbands to give them a good start before a long work day. Today many Irish bed & breakfasts and restaurants still serve these Irish breakfast foods.

What You Will Need:

2 frying pans

Serving Plates

Irish Butter

Eggs

Potatoes

Tomatoes

Rashers

Bangers

White and Black pudding

Can of Irish beans

Irish Soda bread

Bags of Irish tea

Directions:

1. Warm several serving plates in the oven. An Irish breakfast is traditionally served on warm plates.


2. Melt a good amount of Irish butter in a frying pan. Place rashers in the butter and fry until golden brown. Rashers are a type of Irish bacon that is similar to Canadian bacon. Remove rashers and place on warmed plate.


3. Fry the bangers in the butter and grease from the rashers. Bangers are a beloved type of Irish sausage. Place bangers on a warm plate.


4. Cut the white pudding and the black pudding into 1/2" pieces. Fry in the butter and grease. Pudding in Ireland is not like the dessert pudding. White pudding is another type of sausage made with pork, oatmeal and spices. Black pudding is a sausage made of pig's blood, oatmeal, and spices. Add the pudding to the warm plates.


5. Add more butter to frying pan. Quarter a tomato and fry with slices of boiled potato.


6. In a sauce pan, simmer a can of Irish baked beans. Irish beans are in a tomato sauce and lack the sweetness of American baked beans.


7. Take out a separate frying pan and prepare several eggs. Traditionally, Irish eggs are served sunny side up, but make the eggs however you like.


8. Butter slices of brown Irish soda bread.


9. Prepare a pot of hot Irish breakfast tea.


10. Gather the family and serve breakfast. After eating a full Irish breakfast, there should be no need for lunch.