Irish potato boxty

  • Vegetarian

Derived from ingredients – check the package label.

  • Good for breakfast

Less suited for lunch, for dinner, as a snack.

Four servings of Irish potato pancakes made with cooked and raw potatoes, fried until golden.

4 servingsFinal yield 1,010 g

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Ingredients

  • 350 gPotatoes, russet, flesh and skin, raw (Includes foods for USDA's Food Distribution Program)
  • 350 gPotatoes, russet, flesh and skin, raw (Includes foods for USDA's Food Distribution Program)
  • 120 gWheat flour, white, all-purpose, unenriched
  • 180 gMilk, whole, 3.25% milkfat, with added vitamin D
  • 100 gEgg, whole, raw, fresh
  • 25 gButter, salted
  • 6 gLeavening agents, baking powder, double-acting, sodium aluminum sulfate
  • 5 gSalt, table
  • 800 gBeverages, water, tap, drinking not counted – removed

Method

  1. Scrub 350 g potatoes, cut into small skin-on cubes and cover with water in a small pan, bring to the boil and cook for 15 minutes at 95 °C until a knife slides through the centre. Drain and mash them with their well-scrubbed skins.
  2. Finely grate the remaining potatoes into a cloth and squeeze firmly. Stir the raw potato into the mash with flour, milk, egg, baking powder and salt; leave the batter for 3 minutes.
  3. Use a total of 50 g butter for frying all pancakes. Heat the butter in a non-stick pan to 175 °C. Use about 120 g batter for each pancake, spread it to a 7 mm round and fry for 3 minutes per side until the edges are crisp and the centre springs back.

Recipe tradition

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Nutrition

Calculated from the selected ingredients; not a laboratory measurement.

Whole recipe

Energy
1,425 kcal
Protein
45.8 g
Fat
37.4 g
Total carbohydrate (by difference)
229.1 g
Total dietary fibre (USDA)
12.4 g
Saturated fatty acids
19.7 g
Sodium
2,991.5 mg
Salt (sodium × 2.5)
7.5 g

Per serving

Energy
356.3 kcal
Protein
11.5 g
Fat
9.3 g
Total carbohydrate (by difference)
57.3 g
Total dietary fibre (USDA)
3.1 g
Saturated fatty acids
4.9 g
Sodium
747.9 mg
Salt (sodium × 2.5)
1.9 g

Per 100 g of finished food

Energy
141.1 kcal
Protein
4.5 g
Fat
3.7 g
Total carbohydrate (by difference)
22.7 g
Total dietary fibre (USDA)
1.2 g
Saturated fatty acids
1.9 g
Sodium
296.2 mg
Salt (sodium × 2.5)
0.74 g

Salt is calculated from sodium (g salt = mg sodium × 2.5 / 1000) and includes sodium from all ingredients.

A dash means the value is unknown, not zero.

Calculation limitations

  • Nutrition is a calculated estimate, not a laboratory measurement.
  • The final yield is an editorial estimate.
  • Some ingredient quantities use documented estimates or household-measure assumptions.
  • Fibre, saturated fat and sodium of cooked ingredients are estimated from the consumed ingredient amounts; for drained ingredients, sodium is included only where the retained amount is an explicit editorial estimate.
  • Some process effects could not be resolved in this calculation.

Allergens

Contains: Gluten, Egg, Milk

Derived from ingredients – check the package label.

Food data sources

  • USDA FoodData Central SR Legacy (2018-04) · USDA Agricultural Research Service, FoodData Central SR Legacy. · CC0 1.0 Universal