An Irish Breakfast in France

A full Irish breakfast is made with eggs, rashers/bacon, sausage, white and black pudding, mushrooms, tomatoes, and soda or brown bread. Not easy to find all these ingredients in France, so we adapt!

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• White and black pudding
• A proper Irish breakfast
• Making a proper Irish breakfast
• Serving eggs and bacon on the English muffins
• More sausage and egg recipes you can have for breakfast
• 📋Irish breakfast in France

White and black pudding

The sausage and the white and black pudding are very specific to Ireland. The pudding, in particular, is what differentiates an Irish breakfast from an English one.

They are like a large sausage filled with suet, oatmeal or barley, pork and pork liver. The ingredients are the same in both puddings, however, the black pudding has pork blood which makes it dark in colour.

They cannot be replaced by local products, even if you may found something looking very similar: black and white boudin. They are completely different from the Irish pudding. They are creamy and soggy while the Irish puddings are firm like sausage.

So ........if you would like to have an Irish breakfast in France,  you can't!

So why do we call it Irish breakfast?

1. Because my husband is Irish
2. It is the closest we can get to an Irish breakfast
3. So we pretend it is

We just have eggs, rashers/bacon, mushrooms and tomatoes, and to make it special we use our homemade English muffins.

So why don't we call it English breakfast?

Because English breakfast has baked beans, and ..... no thank you!

The proper Irish breakfast

But if you want to have a proper full Irish breakfast, you need to find the puddings and the Irish sausages:

• Clonakilty White Pudding
• Clonakilty Black Pudding
• Richmond Thick Irish Sausages

Every time we travel to Ireland we stock up.

Those are the best Irish brands, but they do not sell them on Amazon.com However you can find the following products (affiliate links):

• White Pudding by Jolly Posh
• Black Pudding by Jolly Posh
• Bangers by Jolly Posh

A proper Irish breakfast

A proper Irish breakfast is made with:

1. Bacon
2. White pudding
3. Black pudding
4. Irish sausages
5. Grilled tomatoes
6. Put it all together with mushrooms, eggs and some Irish soda bread.

As we cannot find soda bread in France, we serve the egg and the bacon on homemade English muffins.

Making a proper Irish breakfast

1. Cut the pudding into large slices (1 in - 2 cm)
2. Cook them on a hot iron pan brushed with butter
3. Pierce the sausages and bake them in the oven at 355 F- 180 C for 20 minutes
4. Place them on a pan and keep them warm

5. Grill the tomatoes and mushrooms. Leave the tomatoes and the mushrooms whole. Cut them in half only if they are large. Season them with salt and pepper.
6. Always keep the cooked meat and vegetables warm either next to the grill or in a warm oven.

Serving eggs and bacon on the English muffins

7. If you want to serve the Irish breakfast with muffins,
8. cut the muffins in two
9. Grill the bacon
10. Place it on top of the muffins
11. If you want to shape the eggs round like the muffins cook them inside the rings you used for the muffins
12. Place the eggs over the bacon on the muffins

7. Serve with sausages, the Irish puddings, the tomatoes and the mushroom.
8. Enjoy the Irish breakfast with a glass of orange juice.

More sausage and egg recipes you can have for breakfast

If you are looking for a nice rich breakfast with sausage and eggs you can check the recipes:

• Sausage rolls
• Beef sausage hand pies
• Baked frittata
• Fried pasta

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