Colcannon

Name: Colcannon
Yield: Serves 4 to 6
Cuisine: Europe, Irish
Ingredients: 2 pounds, Yukon gold potatoes, peeled and sliced ½ inch thick; 1¼ teaspoons, table salt, plus salt for cooking potatoes; 8 ounces curly, kale; 8 tablespoons, unsalted butter, divided; ¼ teaspoon, pepper; 8 , scallions, sliced thin (¾ cup); 1½ cups, whole milk

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By Dominique Khoury

Appears in Cook's Illustrated November/December 2023

Gather 'round a bowl of buttery, kale-studded colcannon.

SERVES4 to 6

TIME50 minutes

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WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

Colcannon is a simple, beloved Irish preparation of mashed potatoes studded with greens and alliums and topped generously with butter. In our take, we opted to punctuate the mash with earthy leaves of kale and mild, sweet scallions. We used...

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