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These Irish Champ mashed potatoes are the ultimate comfort food and side dish! Creamy buttery mashed potatoes are mixed with spring onions for a simple recipe that goes perfectly with roast dinners, corned beef, pot roast or sausages. Learn the secret to extra delicious mash plus tips for making the smoothest, creamiest potatoes every time.

About Irish Champ Mashed Potatoes

Love mashed potatoes but want to make them pop even more? Adding just one easy-to-find-ingredient transforms mashed potatoes into Irish Champ and you may never make plain mashed potatoes again! The one ingredient that you add to mashed potato is spring onion or green scallions! They add a delicious lift to creamy, buttery mash.

Why You'll Love Irish Champ

Irish Champ (Brúitín in Irish) is so, so simple to make but utterly delicious and comforting. Peel and boil potatoes, mash and then heat up milk, butter and chopped spring onions and stir in! I like to add extra butter on top of the piping hot potatoes.

Irish Champ goes with so many dishes especially ones with rich sauces like a beef pot roast or a creamy Dijon chicken tray bake. Or try it with this corned salt beef.

What is the difference between Irish champ and colcannon? Champ is simpler and uses just spring onions while Colcannon uses cabbage.

Video How To Make Irish Champ Mashed Potatoes

Video: Irish Champ Mashed Potato Recipe

Ingredients For Irish Champ Mashed Potatoes

Potatoes - Floury or high starch varieties of potato are best like Sebago or Dutch Creams

Salt - Fine salt.

Milk - Full cream or whole milk is best for mash as it will make the potatoes creamier than skim or non fat milk.

Spring onions or green scallions or green shallots - We really need to find a common name for this haha!

Butter - Always salted butter for me :) Plus potatoes need salt!

Tips For Making Irish Champ Mashed Potatoes

1 - I always boil the potatoes in very salty water. This allows the seasoning to penetrate right through the potato and all it needs is a light sprinkle of salt at the end. I find it can be hard to season the mash properly otherwise, especially if you make a large amount.

2 - You can use half and half or a 50/50 mixture of milk and cream for a richer flavour.

3 - The optional butter at the end is not optional IYKWIM! That is how Champ is often served in Ireland.

Mr NQN is a massive mashed potato lover and some of his favourite mash dishes are: Creamy Stilton Mashed Potatoes whereas I lean more towards really buttery mash like Joel Robuchon's Mashed Potatoes or cheesy L'aligot. You can even make mash out of celeriac and potato for a lighter mash!

Irish Champ Mashed Potato Recipe

An Original Recipe by Lorraine Elliott

Recipe Overview

Preparation time: 15 minutes

Cooking time: 30 minutes

Serves: 4-6 as a side dish

Ingredients Needed

• 1kg/2.2lbs potatoes
• 2 tablespoons salt
• 1 cup/250ml/8.8fl ozs milk
• 1 cup/50g/1.7oz chopped spring onions/green scallions, tops
• 45g/1.oz butter plus 3-4 squares butter
• Salt and pepper for seasoning

Step-By-Step Instructions

Step 1 POTATOES - Peel potatoes and place in a pot with water. Add the 2 tablespoons of salt and bring to a boil. Simmer until tender. Once they're tender and mashable turn off the heat.

Step 2 MILK - In a small saucepan gently heat the milk and butter and stir in the spring onions and cook for 1 minute until soft.

Step 3 MASH - Drain and mash the potatoes using a potato ricer (for finer texture) or masher (for rougher texture). Stir in the milk in two lots. Season with additional salt and pepper. Scoop into a bowl and add squares of butter.

Personal Note

I have a routine at night if I am staying in (and now that it's winter I love staying in!) and that's watching tv in bed and once I am ready to go to sleep I do some scrolling on tiktok. I know that every sleep expert tells you that that is the last thing you should do but it works for me and I sleep well every night so if it isn't broke I don't want to fix it.

I learned a couple of things last night when scrolling. The first is apparently I am not the only one that when I make a sandwich for Mr NQN and it looks really good I cut out some of the centre so that I can have a mini sandwich! I love a sneaky little mini sandwich and this works really well with sourdough rather than square bread ;)

I also learned that I am the girly that puts my car in reverse to have a look at the reverse camera to see how I parked and to check my parking!

So tell me Dear Reader, do you do either of those things? Do you go out less during winter? And have you ever tried champ?