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Dublin Coddle – Irish Country Cooking

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I was looking for some traditional Irish recipes for St. Patrick’s Day when I stumbled across this recipe for Dublin Coddle in a book a publisher sent me called Irish Country Cooking. It’s a distinctly traditional Irish recipe, and I needed to solve the mystery of “what the flying fig is a coddle?”

So I made it, and oh my people, I wanted to cuddle the coddle. It was home-cooked heaven on a winter’s day… so comforting and delicious.

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Dublin Coddle

Cuisine Irish
Author Liz

Ingredients

  • 4 1/2 lb potatoes peeled
  • 1 pint boiled water
  • 1 ham chicken or beef stock cube (optional)
  • 1 lb good quality pork sausages
  • 1 lb thick-cut bacon
  • 2 large onions sliced
  • 1 tbsp finely chopped fresh parsley
  • salt and coarse ground pepper

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 300 degrees.
  2. Cut potatoes into evenly sized chunks. Dissolve the stock cube in boiling water, if using.
  3. Grill sausages and bacon long enough to color the but not dry them out. Drain on paper towels and chop bacon into 1-inch pieces. Chop sausages into bite sized pieces if desired.
  4. In a large ovenproof casserole dish with a tight lid, layer onions, bacon, sausages and potatoes, seasoning each layer liberally with pepper and parsley. Continue until ingredients are used up. Pour hot water or bouillon mixture over top.
  5. On stove, bring the liquid to a boil. Immediately reduce heat and cover pot. Line under the pot lid with foil to help seal it.
  6. Place the covered pot in pre-heated oven and cook for at least 3 hours (up to four or five hours won't hurt it). After two hours, check liquid levels and add more water if needed. There should be about an inch of liquid in the bottom at all times.
  7. Serve hot with fresh soda bread to sop up the lovely gravy.

Dublin Coddle is now one of my favorite recipes for St. Patrick’s Day. Oh heck, who needs St. Patty’s to make it — Irish country cooking year-round? I’m in.

What are your favorite Irish recipes?


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  4. There are no Irish recipes that stand out to me right now, but that my change after seeing this recipe. My husband is a meat and potatoes kind of guy, so I’ll be making this for him real soon.

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  8. The photo sells this recipe! Wow, sausage and bacon in the same recipe?! Who knew that could happen! This could be my new recipe to try for March.

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  11. How to make this recipe acceptable for the health nuts: Use baby red potatoes, ( less starch), slightly higher in nutrition, with the skins left on. Instead of water, use homemade beef or chicken stock. Opt for a good low fat smoked turkey or chicken sausage, preferably organic, also use turkey bacon. The results will be Kosher friendly, fat content cut by 2/3, flavor still there, just not quite so salty. For a flavor boost, add 1 small diced parsnip with the onions.

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  14. First time I have heard of this and I am just a few generations in from the Emerald Isle! I will ave to ask my Mom “what the fling fig is a coddle” and see if she knows! 🙂

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  15. I’ve never heard of cooking this variety of sausage, bacon and potatoes together. I think this sounds really good and will probably try this recipe.

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  17. Sounds like good Irish comfort food. If you have not had colcannon before, give that a try too, it is not to be missed, and pure Irish heaven, especially when you throw some bacon in it.

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  21. I love trying out new recipe for the season and this looks just wonderful and one my family and I will enjoy trying.

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  25. This looks awesome..The only recipe I know is the boiled dinner with potatoes,carrots,cabbage,onion,turnip and corned beef

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  27. I love coming to your blog because you have such great recipes on here. I’ve never heard of coddle either – and now your pictures have me really intrigued!

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  31. I have never heard of or tried coddle. But after seeing this recipe, I want a whole bowl of this.

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  38. Hmmm….I could go for some Irish potato candy. Though, if you want to make some more of that coddle I would definitely try it. 🙂

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  46. I am the same as you, What’s a coddle? This sounds very good! Just in time for St. Patty’s day!

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  54. I remember my mom in law made an Irish beef and cabbage stew. That was a favorite meal on St. Patrick’s day of my father in law who is an irish.

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  59. Irish… hmmm I am not really up to par with what Irish meals would entail. I know I am a huge Italian fan for food ideas though. I should probably look more into Irish meals as it is part of my genes!

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  68. I actually don’t know any Irish recipes, which is a shame because I have a lot of Irish in me! This looks really good- I don’t eat pork, but could easily get turkey versions &make this. Might have to do that!

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  69. I think this will be my new fave Irish recipe! This is great! The hearty stew I used to make used a cream of mushroom soup w/ gluten in it (which my hubs can’t have anymore) and I haven’t found a good alternative yet. This may just be it. Thank you 🙂

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  71. this looks really good. my family is kinda picky eater but i do believe they would like this. thank you for sharing.

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  75. Wow! This is very different from what I am used to cooking. It looks great! Not sure what my off-the-boat Italian hubby would think of it though…lol His family doesn’t even know how to cook potatoes except to make gnocchi.. hee-hee

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  80. Irish food reminds me of when I used to live back in England and eat things like Colcannon! And don’t get me started on soda bread…yum!

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  93. I’ve never heard of this before, a coddle. This is the month to be up on your irish dishes, though, and I am looking for something different to prepare that will wow my family and friends. This might just be that dish!

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  97. I have never heard of this but it does sound delicious. I guess I don’t really make anything Irish or different for St. Patrick’s Day but I probably need to start doing so!

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  100. Anything with potatoes is a hit at our house. This reminds me of pot roast with added bacon. Can’t go wrong with that!

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  101. I LOVE stews, soups and meat and potato dishes like this when it’s cold out. We also buy potatoes in bulk so I am always looking for new spuds recipes to try! Can’t wait to make this one. I’m sure it will be a good comfort food since more winter is yet to come!

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  109. My hubby is British and I lived over in Europe for quite a while and I can tell you first hand that you’re description of this stuff is spot on! It’s WONDERFUL…comfort food that even beats anything we Yankees can come up with. One of my favorite pubs in the UK is an Irish pub and if I didn’t order a steak and ale pie when we visited, I’d always order the Dublin Coddle. I have such great memories of that pub and how cozy it was. I’m going to have to try this recipe and see if I can duplicate it.

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  111. It must be good if the recipe contains sausages, potatoes and bacon! Have to try it out, but I’m not sure if I could wait for 3 hours 😀

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  115. I’ve read it on menus before (I have an Irish fetish), but I’ve never actually tried it. I am forwarding the recipe to my husband, the good cook in the family!

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  122. I love this recipe. Anything with warm potatoes in it is always good. They are my favorite ingredient in this recipe.

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  123. I Love IRISH BREAKFAST! I studied abroad in Cork back when I was in college. the Breakfasts are to DIE for! Oh yeah and I loved drinking tea. AND they seem to always put corn in their tuna and chicken salad there.

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  125. Yum! Looks delish! I make an Irish drunken stew I think it has Guinness beer in it….only make it this time of year not sure why it’s so cold could have it everyday!

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  131. The Dublin Coddle looks like a recipe my Hubs would love. With St Paddys day not far away, this recipe is one that is sure to please.

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  134. This really appeals to me. Anything that has potatoes, bacon and onions in it has got to be good.

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  135. That looks delicious! My favorite Irish recipe hands down is Shepherd’s Pie. I love it and so does my husband. I haven’t made it in a long time but I think I’m going to attempt it for St. Patty’s Day this year!

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  138. I tried making some Irish Soda Bread last year for St. Pat’s Day, and yuck! I don’t know if I did something wrong or it was just a sucky recipe. I think I’d much rather stick with a meat and potatoes dish like this one this year! Looks very hearty!

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  144. That looks like some delicious comfort food to me! I would add in some Guinness for that extra Irish taste and maybe even try making it in the slow cooker. Thanks for the tasty recipe ( =

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  155. Oh my goodness, this looks so good. I should really make this for my husband- he is Irish and appreciates it when I make him true-to-form Irish food (which sadly isn’t often enough).

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  162. Well my younger kids are all about Dublin (their favorite trip ever, I guess because they were old enough to appreciate it?), so they’d love it for the name alone. Hubby would love it because it looks nice and hearty.

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  163. Oh I saw a recipe like this last year when I was looking for traditional Irish foods. Sounded delicious then, and yours looks fantastic. I’ll HAVE to make this soon.

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  164. That looks so good – the perfect comfort dish! I don’t know much about traditional Irish food but we are taking a trip to Ireland this summer so I’m really looking forward to trying it out.

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  167. This sounds and looks delicious. My mom and I have been brainstorming recipes for a little St Patrick’s Day get together we are having and this would be a perfect addition to our menu.

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  174. I was just asking my husband if he has any favorite Irish meals. The Dublin Coddle looks great. I should make it for him for St. Patty’s Day!

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  175. My dad used to tell me not to coddle my kids, which means nothing like this version of coddle! I promise, I never cooked my kids in water just below boiling!

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  178. Funny that this ends up in my email tonight! I was just looking for some traditional Irish recipes as well, and landed on a recipe for Dublin Coddle! I hope ours turns out as good as yours! (Also I’d love if you came by our Food of the World party next Tuesday…we’re visiting Ireland!)

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  181. this seems like a great simple meal that is easy to prepare and that almost anyone will love. thanks for the recipe.

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