Potato Apple Bread (Irish Cuisine)
Potato Apple Bread is similar to a fadge or an Irish Potato Bread-Boxty. It is a popular breakfast snack or a tasty dessert filled with sweetened apples from north-eastern Ireland and especially around Halloween.
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Apples and Potatoes
Potatoes and Apples are an important part of Ireland's Diet. Apples have been grown in Ireland for at least 3000 years and I have read that St. Patrick is said to have planted a number of apple trees in Ireland.
Similarly, Potatoes are an important part of the Irish Diet. Without Potatoes, there would have been no crisp or no fish and chips. Potatoes can grow easily in good and poor soil and soon years ago, many families across Ireland were dependent on the potato.
A little History
The poor people did not grow any other types of food except potatoes and then the Potato Blight in 1845 ruined the potato crops all over Ireland and many people died from hunger because they had no other food to eat. This is known as the Great Irish Famine and lasted for almost 5 years. The people who were farming after the famine tried not to depend on potato alone for their food.
Leftover Potatoes Recipe
This bread is made from leftover potatoes, but I had none so I made it using fresh ones. Similar to the Boxty - Irish Potato Flatbread this is best made using floury potatoes. The potatoes are mashed and mixed along with a bit of butter and flour.
Recipe process of Potato Apple Bread
Apples are cooked until tender. Now one can either just cut them in slices and use them as filling or mash them or cut them into bite-size pieces. I have cut them into bite-size pieces as I like them a bit chunky added just a small amount of sugar and cinnamon and they were done.
These flatbreads were pretty heavy with the potato and apple but we enjoyed them thoroughly for our weekend brunch. For serving, I would say a bit of sour cream on the side will do no harm 🙂
A few more Apple Recipes
Potato Apple Bread
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Ingredients
Potato Filling
- 1 medium size Apples (I have used normal red eating apples)
- ¼ teaspoon Cinnamon (Optional)
- pinch Salt
- 1-2 tablespoon Water
For the Dough
- ¾ Cup All purpose Flour
- 2 medium size Boiled Potatoes (Around 300 gms)
- 1 tablespoon Softened Butter
- 1 teaspoon Salt (If butter is unsalted)
- ½ teaspoon Sugar (Optional)
- 1-2 tablespoon Butter For Shallow Frying
Instructions
Dough
- Mash the potatoes very finely so that you do not have any lumps.
- Add in the butter, flour and salt and combine to a smooth dough. Keep it aside.
Apple Filling
- Finely chop the apples (One can grate too - depends on how you like it.)
- In a pan, add a tablespoon of water, apples and a pinch of salt.
- Let it cook on slow to medium until soft (Depends on how you like). This takes a while.
- Once they are soft yet crunchy, add the sugar and cinnamon. I then gently pressed them with the back of the spoon. Cook them for a minute more.
- Let it cool.
Assembling
- Divide the potato mixture into equal size balls (Will make 4 with the above mix).
- Roll each into 3 inch circles and ¼ inch thick.
- There are two ways I did this. One is put the mix in the center of one bread and spread it across, leaving 1 cm from the edges.
- Gently put another bread on top of it and press and seal the edges. One can use a fork to make some beautiful pattern.
- Another way is put the filling in center, and spread it only on half the circle. (Semicircle) leaving 1 cm on the sides.
- Flip the other part on the top of this and seal.
- Shallow fry them using butter on slow to medium until cooked or golden brown on both the sides.
- Serve it warm as is or with a dollop of sour cream.
Recipes in this series of A-Z International FlatBreads
- A- Afghani Bolani
- B- Boxty - Irish Potato FlatBread
- C- Corn Tortilla
- D- Dhal Puri
- E-English Muffins
- F-Farinata Genovese : Ligurian Chickpea Flatbread
- Gözleme (Turkish Flatbread with Potato, Spinach, Mint and Feta Cheese)
- H- Harcha (Moroccan FlatBread)
- I - Injera (Ethiopian FlatBread)
- J-Jamaican FlatBread - Bammy
- K-Knäckebröd - Swedish Multi-Seed Crispbread
- L- Lachuch (Yemenite FlatBread)
- M-Manakish Za'atar (Levantine Flatbread)
- N-Noni Afghani (Afghan Flatbread)
- O-Omani Maldouf - A FlatBread made with Dates
- P-Potato Apple Bread
- Q-Qistibi
- Rye Flatbread (Icelandic)
- Syrian Pita Bread
- Tiganopsomo - The Greek version of fried bread
- Uzbek Flatbread - Obi Non
- Venezuela's Flatbread - Arepa
- Warqi Paratha
- Xaxaba Diphaphata (Flatbread from Botswana)
- Yufka (Turkish Flatbread)
- Zhingyalov Hats (Armenian Flatbread)
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Potato and apple sound like a unique combination. Would love to try and see how it tastes. Looks very inviting
Never thought of this potato and apple bread. Interesting find Renu. Am sure the outer crust will be definitely super soft na coz of the potatoes. Seriously i want to give a try to this bread.
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A very unique combo for a bread , but very very interesting ! A must try and a very very good read .
Very interesting combination of apples and potatoes. The filling of apples is very unique and I am sure it makes a superb meal.
These look like a cross between apple pie and potato bread. This must be a quite filling meal. I tried potato in bread sometimes back and loved how soft the bread was. Cooked in butter, this sounds so flavourful.
Never heard of this bread but it definitely looks so tempting. What a strange combination potato and apples. Have book marked this recipe Renu to try out.
That's surely a different combination. However I feel potato in any form is great and becomes neutral. So guess apple taste was more. The bread looks sinful yaar.
I like this bread having potato and apple filling. Really great to know how different cuisine have different style of filling and types of bread. great share.
What a combination of potato and apple in one bread.. look like a calazone.
Nice reading your post Renu,learnt about Ireland, potato and the consequence of the famine!This flatberad looks more like a dessert! Such a unique combo of potato and apple!!!
I can easily imagine how soft this bread must be due to addition of potatoes in the dough and then cooked apple with cinnamon flavor must have made this bread taste heavenly
What a lovely bread this is. I love the potato enriched dough as they are so soft and flavorful. This is a great recipe for the fall season!
This looks so good! Can't wait to try it.
I can't decide if this is more like a pancake, a strudel or just a really delicious weekend brunch bread. Will definitely be trying it this weekend!
This is such an incredibly creative recipe! I can't wait to try it. Thanks for sharing. Drooling over the idea already
This looks delicious! I have been trying to test out new recipes. I will have to add this to my list:)
Wow this is an amazing apple potato bread. I absolutely love the idea and want to try it out. Sounds like a yummy recipe.
A completely new recipe for me. Potato apple bread looks so tempting and easy to make. Mashed potatoes with sweet apple filling wow I can imagine the taste. I would love to try it sometime.
Apple and potato combination in a bread sounds interesting to me ! Would love giving it a try.