Traditionally, the Vegetables in Irish homes are not store-bought and are cultivated at home in a special enclosure known as lúbgort. This fenced-plot or lúbgort is where the locals plant special herbs and vegetables including cabáistí (cabbages), leann (leeks), oiniúin (onions), and gairleog (garlic). This post will walk you through the most commonly used vegetables in Irish cuisine and give you the most updated translation for each. If you are up for that, then let's start learning!

Whenever we think about Ireland, what usually comes to mind are the amazing tourist attractions, rolls of mountains, and their week-long festivities. However, there is one thing that you should also not miss out on, and their mouthwatering selection of healthy Irish dishes. The country is known to have a huge number of recipes just for cooking potatoes alone. If you are planning to visit the country, do note that the locals have very specific practices when serving food:

• Breakfast: available from 9 am to 10 am and is usually made of big servings, as one may expect from a traditional Irish breakfast.
• Lunch: available from 12:30 pm to 2 pm and is available in restaurants every day. However, the locals skip this during the weekends.
• Tea: available starting at 6:30 pm. This refers not to the drink but to the evening meal or dinner. You can expect to be served with bread, tea, cold cuts, and some cheese.
• Supper: This refers to the midnight snack, and this usually means tea partnered with some sandwiches.

Are you interested to know more about Irish cuisine? Get to know more about this in the next part of the post.

Irish Cuisine

The Irish people love a healthy dish, and most of these fruits and vegetables are available all year round. For instance, you can expect fruits and veggies like asparagus and rhubarb to grow every April to June. By the time July to September hits, there will be lots of new potatoes, and the fruits from the last month are turned into jams. Lastly, October to December is known to be the start of the apple-picking month and the time where more potatoes are harvested.

To make sure that nothing is going to be wasted, most Irish people are considered vegetarians, and you can find that groceries have aisles and aisles of vegan-friendly food. In fact, the whole country is known to be among the top 10 countries with a very active pledge to become a vegan country. Below are some of their top vegetable dishes you should try next time.

• Irish Buttered Corns - Can be found in grocery stores and is a great snack to be partnered with some wine. The Irish Buttered Corns is what you should order. It is made of peeled carrots, unsalted Irish butter, black pepper, thyme leaves, Kosher salt, and parsley leaves.
• Colcannon - Also known as the Irish winter vegetable casserole in English, this unique food is perfect to be served with some meat. It is made of sliced potato, leeks, parsnips, mace, cabbage, milk, garlic cloves, salt, parsley, pepper, and salt,
• Vegetarian Irish Stew - This hearty dish is perfect for cold weather and can easily be prepared on a stovetop. The dish makes use of russet potato, lentils, vegetable broth, sugar, celery, mushroom, carrots, turnips, onion, bay leaves, black pepper, salt, Dijon mustard, and paprika.
• Irish potato salad - While this may remind you of the classic mashed potato, the Irish locals turned their recipe up a notch by adding tastier ingredients. To make this side dish, you can use potatoes, cabbage, chicken bouillon cubes, garlic, milk, butter, cream cheese, sour cream, pepper, green onions, and salt.
• Irish creamed kale - This side dish is low in calories, easy to prepare, and can be eaten on its own too! It is made of fresh kale, butter, sea salt, black pepper, cream, and spring onions.

Now that we already have a glimpse of what the Irish cuisine looks like, it's time that we see what the translation for each of these vegetables in the local Irish language is.

Vegetables In Irish Language

In the search what a bliosán or soilire even means? In the table below, you'll get to discover the translation of each veggie in both their singular and plural form so that you can structure your sentences correctly.

Which of these vegetables is your favorite? No matter what it is, keep the translations on this page saved on your device so that you won't need to search for it when reading Irish recipes or restaurant menus.

As we reach this part of the post, we hope that you were able to see all the useful translations of the vegetables to the Irish language. If you enjoyed this post, feel free to read next to our other Irish-based posts like the most common verbs, how to structure question words and the Irish slang words.

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