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Champ (Or Poundies

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This Irish side-dish features Potatoes, Chopped scallions, Milk, Butter. It delivers smooth, comforting richness. A reliable recipe that works well for everyday cooking. Simple to make with ingredients you likely already have on hand, this is a recipe you will come back to again and again.
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Difficulty: Intermediate
Servings: 8
Calories: 1171.6
Dietary: Gluten-free
Description
This Irish side-dish features Potatoes, Chopped scallions, Milk, Butter. It delivers smooth, comforting richness. A reliable recipe that works well for everyday cooking. Simple to make with ingredients you likely already have on hand, this is a recipe you will come back to again and again.
Ingredients
  • 4 pound Potatoes
  • 1/2 pound Chopped scallions
  • 10 fl Milk
  • 4 ounce Butter
Directions
  1. 1
    Pepper Champ is served piled high on the dish, with a well of melted butter in the center.
  2. 2
    It is eaten with a spoon from the outside, each spoonful being dipped in the well of melted butter.
  3. 3
    Peel potatoes and cook in boiling water.
  4. 4
    Simmer milk and scallions together for five minutes.
  5. 5
    Strain potatoes and mash thoroughly.
  6. 6
    Add hot milk, and the scallions, salt and pepper, and half the butter.
  7. 7
    The traditional implement used for pounding potatoes was a wooden masher, pestle-shaped, called a "beetle." The poem says: .
  8. 8
    There was an old woman that lived in a lamp; she had no room to beetle her champ.
  9. 9
    She's up'd with her beetle and broke the lamp, and now she has room to beetle her champ

Nutrition Facts

Servings 8

Amount Per Serving
Calories 1171.6kcal
% Daily Value *
Total Fat 84.0g130%
Saturated Fat 52.8g264%
Cholesterol 220.0mg74%
Sodium 770.2mg33%
Total Carbohydrate 89.8g30%
Dietary Fiber 10.0g40%
Sugars 16.2g
Protein 18.5g37%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet. Your daily value may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.

Keywords: boiling, butter, champ, chopped, irish, milk, potatoes, poundies, scallions, side-dish, simmering, title, vegetables, vegetarian
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