Monday
- Full veggie breakfast traybakepaprika potatoes · roast mushrooms · blistered vine tomatoes
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Belfast: its food, and a week to cook at home.
A shipbuilding city with a big breakfast, a great Victorian market and breads cooked on the griddle.
The photograph is AI-generated.
What people eat here
Dishes from Belfast
No. 1
The Ulster fry
Bacon, sausages, eggs and black or white pudding, with soda farls and potato farls fried in the pan.
No. 2
The Belfast bap
A large, soft, floury bread roll with a dark crust.
No. 3
The pastie supper
A Northern Irish chippy pastie is a round patty of minced pork and onion, battered and fried, served with chips.
No. 4
St George's Market
A Victorian covered market, built in the 1890s, still trading fish, bread and local food.
What grows here, and when
Comber potatoes in early summer; Bramley apples from autumn.
Comber early potatoes come from County Down nearby, and Armagh Bramley apples from the orchards to the south west. Both are protected food names.
Seven days, seven menus
A sample week from our recipes
A week to cook at home that suits Belfast and its seasons, using only recipes on this site. Each day reads in the order you eat.
Tuesday
- Pea and mint soupsweet garden peas · fresh mint · olive oil
- Jacket potatoes with smoky homemade beanscrisp jacket potato · smoky tomato beans · chives
Wednesday
- Leek and potato soupsilky leek and potato · snipped chives · green olive oil
- Crisp hake with minty crushed peascrisp-skin hake · minty crushed peas · lemon new potatoes
- Creamy mashed potatoessilky mash · warm butter · chives
Thursday
- Tarka dal with jeera ricegolden lentils · sizzling garlic tarka · cumin rice
Friday
- Roast chicken thighs with leeks and potatoesgolden chicken thighs · sweet roast leeks · crisp potatoes
- Garlicky spring greens with lemonspring greens · golden garlic · lemon
Saturday
- Vegetable fried noodles with crispy tofuwok-tossed rice noodles · golden tofu · tamari and ginger
Sunday
- Steak with peppercorn sauce and watercressseared sirloin · cracked peppercorn cream · peppery watercress
- Crisp roast potatoes with rosemary and garliccrackled roast potatoes · rosemary · soft roasted garlic
- Apple and blackberry crumblebramley apple and blackberry · golden oat crumble · warm custard
We have no recipe yet for the Ulster fry, farls or the pastie.
