Kailkenny Recipe (Bubble and Squeak Aberdeen style)

Two posts in one day? Well I had a good day and this is related to the oatcakes by being "Scottish" 

Yes even more Scottish Comfort food.

This is the Aberdonian version of Bubble and Squeak. Personally I think it is better than Bubble and Squeak and those English sods can just bite the wax tadpole.

There are many versions of cabbage and potatoes being cooked together and tossed on a plate. Especially in the British Isles, where colcannon, rumbledethumps, clapshot and kailkenny vie for attention with their southern neighbor bubble and squeak .

I have been told that Kailkenny is just a Scottish way of saying “colcannon” but whatever. Personally I think it sounds like “kill Kenny”, does that make me a ba$tard? Sorry for the South Park Reference.

I think the trick is the cheese, that is the ingredient that takes kailkenny to a sort of nirvana level of cookery.

Ingredients: 

 

2 Pounds of cooked diced potatoes

1 Savoy cabbage (about a pound) shredded

2 Onions sliced

3 Tablespoons of butter

1/3 Cup of cream

1 Cup sharp or mild cheddar cheese shredded

Salt and fresh cracked black pepper to taste

Methodness for about four marshmallowy peeps: 

Cook the cabbage an onion over a medium heat till onions are nearly transparent and cabbage has become limp, mix with the potatoes, mashing some but not all (never all) the potatoes if liked. Add the cream dump into a baking dish and cover with the cheese. Bake @ 400 for 10 minutes, or until cheese is bubbly. Serve on its own for breakfast lunch or supper it makes a fine meal. Served with oatcakes or as a side to roastit beef it becomes a Scottish Classic. Nice for brunch with a couple of eggs and toast to scoop up the cheesy potatoey goodness.

There are endless variations. I mean endless.

In the Scottish border country the cream is left out and replaced with butter, about a stick of butter more or less to taste. And some people (including myself) just mix the potatoes into the cooked cabbage on the stove top and stir in the cheese without baking. In fact it is what I am having for lunch.