Rachel Allen, Ireland’s best-loved cook, shares with you a collection of family favourites and tried-and-tested Irish classics chosen from her previous bestselling books. Also includes 30 brand new recipes.

‘This is a cookbook I have always wanted to write. It’s a collection of my very best family recipes, seriously comforting and nourishing food, all inspired by both traditional and modern Irish cooking.'

Rachel’s Irish Family Food contains 120 recipes that offer the best in both traditional and modern Irish cooking, from new twists on old classics to tried-and-tested recipes which are sure to become firm family favourites in your home.

Quick and simple dinners, big family feasts, sweet treats and celebration food; this is family cooking at its best. From homemade pork sausages with colcannon, chicken casserole with cheesy herb dumplings and Irish stew, to easy-to-cook seafood and traditional fish pie, as well as simple sweet and savoury breads and desserts such as porter cake and fruit crumbles.

From the plentiful Irish countryside to Rachel’s table and now to yours, Rachel’s Irish Family Food is full of hearty, comforting Irish classics.

Recipes Include:

Kinoith pork casserole

Irish Stew

Crumbed bacon chops with sweet whiskey sauce

Roast chicken

Buttered cabbage

Irish coffee meringue roulade

Pea and spring onion champ

Dublin bay prawns with mayonnaise

Turkey and ham potato pie

Colcannon

Ballymaloe dressed crab

St Stephen’s Day muffins

Traditional herb stuffing

Brown soda bread