Brown Butter Colcannon

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    4–6

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Cook, Eat, Repeat: Ingredients, recipes and stories

By Nigella Lawson

Published 2020

  • About

I have a particular passion for this recipe. Mash in any form has a special place in my heart, but this is simply sublime. I go dreamy-eyed every time I eat it, which is often. If you haven’t come across brown butter before, then you have profound pleasure in store. It is very straightforward to make: quite simply, you heat butter until it is brown. What happens as you heat it is that the water evaporates, and the milk proteins caramelise: the result is sweet, nutty and intense. In France,