Irish Summer Recipes

Let’s look at some Irish summer recipes for this year, where you can taste the flavours of Ireland Isle. For example, traditional stews and refreshing salads. We'll look the best seasonal recipes that are going to make summer in Ireland truly special. Some of these might make you nostalgic, and some are a nice twist on the traditional. Spraoi a bheith agat!

1.    Old-fashioned Irish salad recipe

• 1 hard-boiled eggs, quartered.
• 6 slices pickled beetroot; recipe follows.
• Butterhead lettuce
• 2 tiny scallions or spring onions
• 2 to 4 tomatoes, quartered.
• 8 slices cucumber
• 2 sliced radishes
• Chopped parsley.
• Spring onion, watercress, chopped parsley, for garnish.
• AND the pièce de resistance - a cream salad dressing.

Display everything nice in a bowl and add the dressing at the top.

2. Irish Soup

• 1 tbsp vegetable oil
• 2 tbsp butter
• 700g boneless lamb chump chops, trimmed and cut into small cubes.
• 2 small onions, sliced.
• 2 leeks thickly sliced and washed thoroughly.
• 2 large potatoes
• 1 carrot thickly sliced.
• ½ small swede, cut into bite-size chunks
• Good sprig of fresh thyme, plus extra to garnish
• 2 tbsp chopped fresh parsley.

The recipe

• Brown lamb cubes in oil and half the butter in a large saucepan.
• Cook onions until browned, then return lamb and add leeks with 1 liter water.
• Simmer covered for 1 hour, then add potatoes, carrot, swede, and thyme.
• Cook for 40 more minutes until lamb is tender.
• Skim off fat, whisk in remaining butter, and season with parsley, salt, and pepper.
• Ladle into bowls, garnish with thyme, and serve with Irish soda bread. Enjoy!

These are just some examples for great recipes for the Summer here in Ireland and we hope we could inspire you to try some of them at home.