Ulster breakfast
In Ulster, the northern province in Ireland, the "Ulster fry" variant is so popular that it topped a poll to determine the province's favourite dish.[1] It is eaten not only at breakfast time but throughout the day.[2][3]
Traditionally, an Ulster fry includes soda farls and potato bread.[1][4][5][6] An Ulster variant of the Scotch pancake is a frequent addition to those two items, and can be used to soak up egg yolk.[1][7]
Soda farls are farls made from soda bread.[1][2] Their integration into the traditional Ulster fry has helped them achieve near-legendary status in Ulster, where they can be purchased in bakeries, shops, and supermarkets everywhere.[1] Potato bread is a dense flat bread made from cooked potatoes, flour, baking powder and buttermilk.[1] In an Ulster fry, it is often served in the form of potato farls.[1][2]
Ulster fry has been described in reliable sources as being from Northern Ireland,[8][1][4][5][9] but three of the nine Ulster counties, namely Cavan, Donegal and Monaghan, are in the Republic of Ireland.[10][11] In 2021, Jim Murty, travel journalist,[12] wrote in his blog that he used to eat Ulster fry as a youth in Donegal, and, "when on best behaviour", still did so in Monaghan (and in Belfast, Northern Ireland).[13] In 2024, a business in Inniskeen, Monaghan, defeated four other finalists for the title of Best Ulster Fry in County Monaghan.[14][15] The winner then went on to compete in the final of the Ulster Fry World Championships,[14][15] which accepts entries from all nine Ulster counties, plus an additional entry from Belfast.[16][17]
First held in 2023, the Ulster Fry World Championships are part of the annual Donaghadee Summer Festival in County Down, Northern Ireland.[16][18]
The organisers of the World Championships specify the ingredients for entries in that competition as being bacon, eggs, sausage, soda bread, and potato bread.[16][18] "To make things fair, ..." they have stated,[16] no other items, such as avocado, black or white pudding, or French toast, are permitted.[16][18] As a general rule, according to Ulster fry traditionalists, only ingredients that can be fried in lard (a fat product derived from the fatty tissue of domestic pigs[19][20]) may be included in the dish. Traditionalists therefore also rule out baked beans, and consider hash browns to be an abomination, even though at least the former are increasingly popular as inclusions.[1]
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- ↑ 4.0 4.1 The Hairy Bikers. "The Ulster fry recipe". BBC Food. Retrieved 25 March 2026.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Frying up in Ulster". Good Food Ireland. 21 August 2012. Retrieved 25 March 2026.
- ↑ McDermott, Peter (16 February 2011). "Shane's chef satisfies Woodside diners". The Irish Echo. Retrieved 26 March 2026.
- ↑ Miss South (23 March 2010). "It's my party and I'll fry if I want to..." North South Food. Retrieved 10 March 2026.
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<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namedtse 2024-09-29 - ↑ Holland, Tara (14 February 2023). "What Is an Irish Breakfast?". The Kitchn. Retrieved 25 March 2026.
- ↑ "Ulster". The World Encyclopedia. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2001. p. 689. Archived from the original on 8 November 2013. Retrieved 25 March 2026. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Discover Ulster-Scots in Cavan and Monaghan (PDF) (Map). Belfast: Ulster-Scots Agency. § 13 Ulster Scots and Politics. Retrieved 25 March 2026.
- ↑ "Jim Murty". Extra.ie. DMG Media. Retrieved 25 March 2026.
- ↑ Murty, Jim (6 June 2021). "A wee Irish breakfast?". Jim Murty’s TravelTravelTravel. Retrieved 25 March 2026.
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 "Inniskeen business to compete in 'Ulster Fry Championship'". Northern Sound. 12 July 2024. Retrieved 25 March 2026.
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 "Ulster Fry World Championship". taste-of-monaghan. Retrieved 25 March 2026.
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 16.2 16.3 16.4 "Could you be the Ulster Fry World Champion 2023?". Irish Food Guide. July 2023. Retrieved 26 March 2026.
- ↑ Lynch, Connor (8 July 2024). "Excitement grows ahead of the Ulster Fry World Championship this year". Belfast Live. Retrieved 26 March 2026.
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 18.2 Moore, Steven (24 July 2024). "Chefs in Donaghadee compete to create the tastiest Ulster Fry in World Championships". Farming Life. Retrieved 26 March 2026.
- ↑ "Lard" entry in the online Merriam-Webster Dictionary. Accessed on 2020-07-05.
- ↑ "lard", The Free Dictionary, retrieved 2022-02-04
