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Irish Beer Bangers and Mash

Here's how you make Irish Beer Bangers and Mash
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  • Servings: 4
  • Prep: 15m
  • Cook: 35m
  • The following recipe serves 4 people.

Ingredients

The ingredients are:
  • BANGERS AND GRAVY
  • 1 pound sausages (Irish banger sausages)
  • 12 ounces Harp lager beer (or other lager beer)
  • 2 large yellow onions, slivered
  • 1/2 teaspoon dried thyme
  • 3 cloves garlic, minced
  • 1 tablespoon butter
  • 1 tablespoon olive oil
  • Salt
  • Black pepper
  • 21 ounces canned beef consomme
  • 2 1/2 tablespoons cornstarch
  • POTATOES
  • 2 pounds potatoes, peeled and chopped
  • 4 tablespoons butter
  • 1/3 cup creme fraiche (or thin sour cream)
  • 2 tablespoons freeze-dried chives
  • Salt and pepper
We recommend you get your ingredients ready before you start cooking. Once you're ready, here are the steps to making this delicious recipe

How to Make

  • Step 1: In a nonstick skillet, brown sausages, then cover with beer, reduce heat, cover and simmer until beer is almost disappeared.

  • Step 2: Meanwhile, inanother nonstick skillet, heat butter and oil and saute onions and garlic over low heat until caramelized, about 30-35 minutes; KEEP THE HEAT LOW AND STIR OFTEN.

  • Step 3: When caramelized,season to taste with salt and pepper.

  • Step 4: Whisk cornstarch into consomme until dissolved; stir into onions and stir over low heat,then bring a boil stirring, until mixture thickens.

  • Step 5: Meanwhile, cook potatoes in boiling salted water 15-20 minutes or until fork tender;remove from heat and drain.

  • Step 6: Add butter to the hot pan and allow to melt; add drained potatoes and mash; seasoning to taste with salt and pepper, adding in chives, and enough of the creme fraiche until it is as thin as you like.

  • Step 7: Serve bangers and gravy over mashed potatoes.


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