Irish Coddle Recipe: How to Make Coddle: Recipes from Ireland
How to Make a Traditional Irish Dublin Coddle
This homemade Coddle is made from my Mother's Recipe.
This Irish recipe is quick and easy to make.
It is made with pork sausages, rashers and vegetables.
These days the Coddle recipe is varied. Some people add different vegetables or barley.
Here I will show you the traditional way of how to make Irish coddle.
This is my mother's recipe for Dublin Coddle with photos.
It is easy and cheap to make and is nice served with a few slices of Irish Soda Bread and butter.
It is often cooked beforehand and then reheated and eaten later at a party or after a night out.
Did you like my mother's recipe for Dublin Coddle
Recipe for Irish Coddle
Preparation time: 15 mins
Cooking time: 45 mins
Serves: 4 portions
Ingredients
8 Pork sausages
12 Streaky bacon rashers
3 Medium size potatoes
2 Medium onions
2 Medium carrots
Step by step method
Step 1
Add the sausages to the pot.
Cut up the bacon rashers into cubes.
Add to the pot.
Step 2
Peal the carrots and chop into small pieces.
Add to pot.
Step 3
Peal the potatoes and chop into cubes.
Add to pot.
Step 4
Peal the onions and slice into small pieces.
Add to pot.
Step 5
Add water to the pot, just enough to cover the ingredients.
Put on the cooker until it boils.
Step 6
Once it has come to the boil simmer for 45mins.
The Irish Coddle is now ready to be dished up.
It is just as nice if left to go cold and reheated later, as is the Irish tradition.
The Irish Coddle Recipe and the Irish Famine
History and tradition of the Irish Coddle recipe
In the late 1700’s there was a large migration of Irish people from the country to the cities. This was due to a famine which encouraged the people to go to the cities like Dublin in search of work. They brought with them into the city the tradition of raising small animals such as hens and pigs.
What was left of the pig once it was slaughtered and sold was turned into sausages. This along with the rashers of streaky bacon was boiled with vegetables for a warm and nourishing meal.
My mother making Irish Coddle. July 2010
My parents. 24th December 1951
I hope you enjoyed this recipe for my mother's Irish Dublin Coddle. As you have seen by this article it is quick, easy and cheap.
I hope this recipe and photos of my mother cooking her own variation of the Dublin Coddle has inspired you to give it a try.
My grandmother Louise would cook her Irish coddle without carrots which is the traditional way to make Irish Coddle.
My mother Christina also cooked it this way until we children were born.
She added the carrots for the nutritional value and the colour so we would get the benefit. My mother is now a great grandmother and still cooks the Irish Coddle for herself and my father.
We all follow my mother's recipe for Irish Coddle as it was passed down to us.
My mother was sixteen in Dublin in 1950 when she met my father.
She worked with my father’s mother at a restaurant and had been invited to the house for a party. This is where she first met my father.
There was a keg of beer there and a Dublin Coddle on the stove. This was the norm in Dublin in those days before the Take Away came.
The coddle would be cooked earlier and after a night out at the pictures or the pub it would be re heated and eaten by Dubliners all over the city.
© Copyright 2010. L.M.Reid.
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Comments
Excellent hub. Traditional foods always interest me and I'll try this one out soon. Thanks for the recipe.
Thanks for reading and your comments KoffeeKlatch. Yes my mother, I must admit, does make a lovely coddle.
When I read your comment I was a bit confused until I went back and read the hub again. I made an error there when I wrote that you can enjoy the Irish coddle hot or cold. Sorry I meant to write that it is often let go cold but then enjoyed when reheated at a later time. My mistake, which I have rectified now. To be honest the coddle would not be too tasty cold.
Thanks scarytaff for your comment. Yes it is quick and easy to make the coddle. It really does not look too tasty from the photos but believe me it is delicious.
Give it a try and I promise you will not be dissapointed.
Excellent pictures. Your mother looked so young and beautiful in the 1951 photo. What a handsome couple.
Thanks for your comment rmcrayne about my parents. Yes it is hard to imagine them that young lol.
That brings back memories! I never liked coddle myself but my kids love it! Its a great dish to have when they come in on a cold and rainy day after school. Or for a supper. Its very filling and according to the kids, tasty! Its also handy because as you say, you can make it before hand and heat it up.
I look forward to giving this a try, especially with cool, Autumn weather on it's way.
I so love a Dublin Coddle. Country people never seem to have heard about it. I'm 40 and my wife makes a lovely coddle. Only difference is she adds a bit of potato soup to it. Coddle and batch loaf..... How Dublin can ya get!
going to have a go a makeing this dish hope it turns out ok looking farward to it mmmmmmmmmmmmmm.....
beautifull but i lash garlic in alwell
This sound really good; but i'm afraid I would end up really throwing some spices into it, especially garlic. I'm Irish but raised in the US and really don't know too much about traditional foods. Thanks for this hub.
Recipes look awesome and your hub is well laid out. I'll have to bookmark this to try some of the recipes at a later date!
I first saw a recipe for dublin coddle on the Netmums website - their version calls for the addition of celery as well as carrots and is the favoured dish my 14 year old daughter loves to make - it's rather like her signature now lol.
So filling & tasty :)
just found the best valintines meal. so so. simple even i can cook it , hope her in doors likes it?
Looks very is to make, tasty and healthy ... what more could you want?
Thanks for SHARING, up and useful.
Yes Irish Coddle is easy to make but so tasty. Thank you everyone for reading and taking the time to comment and share.
I am just delighted by yer recipes, i am gonna start on the coddle and continuing wit the rest of the recipes, I cannot wait, Tomorro is st paddys day and coddle it is (say a prayer)xxxx
Just a few questions from a less than informed American :). What kind of pork sausages are those? and what are 'Streaky bacon rashers' ? is it just regular bacon strips? thanks!
I hope you enjoyed the Irish Coddle Pamela for Paddy's Day.
Hello Jonathan, yes Streaky bacon rashers are also called bacon strips. The pork sausages are just ordinary ones that are available here in Ireland. I didn't know you could buy different kinds.
Thank you both for reading and taking the time to leave a comment
KoffeeKlatch Gals 22 months ago
Wonderful directions and pictures. I am intrigued by a dish that is good when eaten hot and also when eaten cold. Thanks you.