• Recipe collection
• Savoury pies & tarts

16 irresistible Irish-style recipes for St Patrick’s Day feasting

From the heartiest Guinness and beef pie to a perfect tea cake studded with whiskey-soaked fruit, transport your tastebuds to Ireland even if you can’t be there yourself.

• Winter warmer

Adam Liaw makes brussels sprouts taste delicious in this creamy, buttery colcannon

While I love mashed potatoes with a roast, an Irish colcannon is a fantastic change up.

• 1-2 hrs
• Adam Liaw

• The SOS Series

RecipeTin Eats’ Irish chicken stew has a magic ingredient that speeds things up without sacrificing flavour

A couple of glasses of Ireland’s finest adds richness and deep colour to this cosy stew.

• 30 mins - 1 hr
• RecipeTin Eats

• Recipe collection
• Potato

15 Irish recipes to help celebrate St Patrick’s Day

Everybody’s a little bit Irish on St Patrick’s Day, and here are 15 recipes to make the most of it.

• Bread

Baked potato farls

A farl in Gaelic means one-fourth, and here refers to a quarter of a flatbread made from mashed potatoes. Irish superstition has it that baked goods, including soda bread, must be marked with a cross to bless them and "to let the devils out". A triangle of this tender, supple bread makes a lovely accompaniment to soup. Once cooked, the flatbreads freeze well, so just double the recipe for a rainy day.

• 30 mins - 1 hr
• Helen Goh

• Roast

Adam Liaw's kale, sweet potato and brown butter colcannon

Rather than mashing the potato and sweet potato together, I like to keep them a bit separate – it gives the dish more character. And just like mashed potato, the secret to top colcannon is lots of good-quality butter.

• 1-2 hrs
• Adam Liaw

• Roast

Adam Liaw's lamb shoulder with rosemary and stout

The stout gives the sauce for this lamb a Vegemite-y richness, and it's worth making the extra effort to make the gravy – the dish just isn't complete without it.

• 2 hrs +
• Adam Liaw

• Cake

Helen Goh's Irish whiskey fruit cake

With St Patrick's Day in mind, here's a fruit cake that revels in Irish whiskey. Paler and with a softer crumb than most fruit cakes because of the addition of creme fraiche, this luxurious cake needs no more than a dusting of icing sugar for serving. Of course you can use a different spirit, but why not get into the spirit of the day with a little "water of life"?

• 1-2 hrs
• Helen Goh

• One-pot

Kale colcannon (mashed potato)

Colcannon is a wonderful Irish celebration of spud, chockers with spring onions. Take it to the next level with swirls of rich green kale. Top with a melting pool of butter and a crumble of black pudding or chorizo, or serve with grilled mushrooms, salmon, or lamb chops.

• < 30 mins
• Jill Dupleix

• Bread

Fennel and brown sugar soda bread

Ridiculously easy to make, a loaf of this soda bread fresh out of the oven can augment any brunch or lunch spread – hot soup, for instance, although the flavour of the fennel seeds is especially lovely with smoked salmon. Marking the loaf with a cross before it goes into the oven is believed to ward off the devil and protect the household. Tradition and symbolism aside, doing this before it goes into the oven allows for more even baking – a good enough reason for me.

• 30 mins - 1 hr
• Helen Goh