"The Ulster Fry" - Traditional Irish Breakfast

“The Ulster Fry” – Traditional Irish Breakfast

Serves	1+
Prep time	5 minutes
Cook time	20 minutes
Total time	25 minutes
Allergy	Egg
Meal type	Breakfast, Snack
Misc	Child Friendly, Serve Hot
Occasion	Christmas, Easter
Region	Irish
By author	Karen Burns-Booth

A traditional Ulster Fry always has back bacon, black pudding, sausages, fried soda bread and potato farls along with fried eggs on the plate. Optional extras are tomatoes and mushrooms. My take on an Ulster Fry is slightly lighter, as I omitted the sausages, but DO add them if you want a heartier Irish style breakfast!

Ingredients

1 to 2 eggs per person
2 to 3 slices of black pudding per person
2 rashers of back bacon per person
1 tomato per person (cut in half)
2 potato farls (potato cakes) per person
1 slice soda bread per person
vegetable oil
butter

Note

Directions

Step 1	Pre-heat oven to 150C/300F/Gas 2 to keep the food warm as it is cooked.
Step 2	Heat a little oil and some butter in a large frying pan or grease a griddle and add the halved tomatoes; fry for about 8 to 10 minutes until soft, then transfer to the oven to keep warm.
Step 3	Add the black pudding and bacon to the pan and fry to taste (crispy etc) before draining and adding them to the tomatoes in the oven to keep warm.
Step 4	Add more oil and butter if needed and fry the potato farls until golden brown, keep them warm in the oven. Then fry the soda bread until crispy and keep it warm in the oven.
Step 5	Finally, fry the eggs to taste (sunny side up, over easy etc) and serve the breakfast on warm plates like so: put the fried soda bread and potato farls on the plate, place the fried egg/s on top. Arrange the tomatoes, black pudding and bacon around the egg/s, farls and bread.
Step 6	Serve immediately with a pot of tea.