Haggis Neeps & Tatties

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I have never tried haggis - what does it taste like? Quite fancy trying the traditional Scottish Burns Night supper, minus the whisky as not really a fan.

I love Haggis, both meat and veggie versions. Fondly remember a hotel in Edinburgh which had haggis patties out for breakfast.

Will pick some up for burns night. Thanks for the reminder!

I love haggis. The oatmeal gives it a kind of smoothness, goes well with the spiciness.
The veggie version is doable, if you must.
if you're having it for your Burns Night supper, don't forget to make Cranachan for pudding.

Tatties can normally just mean potatoes but in the context of a burns supper it’s mash

Have haggis hash - fry onions till soft, add cooked potatoes and cooked haggis. If you've got neeps around, can't see that adding some of them would do any harm.

Mix it all up a bit, stick it into a tin. Make sure the edges are roughed up a bit, you don't want it smooth cos then you won't get crispy bits.

Bake or grill, it doesn't need long as everything is cooked, but you're aiming for a crispy top.

Serve with brown sauce (ketchup? Madness!) If feeling particularly filthy, top with a fried egg.

I’ll also stick haggis in a soup with lots of pearl barley. Had it for the first time at the cairngorm mountain cafe in 1992 and it’s stayed with me.

Like several PP I rate the McSween vegetarian haggis. But I'm not a massive fan of offal, so it figures.

We serve it with mashed potatoes, mashed swede and carrot, peas, and onion gravy.

If that sounds 'ridiculous' @follyfoot37 - wait until hear how different people have different tastes, and that's okay.

I LOVE the cairngorm cafe! Had a blueberry and lemon cake there once about 20 years ago and still make it

I stuff a chicken with a haggis, it tastes amazing.

Tatties are potatoes. Usually mashed to go with the mashed neeps.
Neeps are swede/rutabaga. Some people thing neeps are turnip but swedes were imported to Scotland about 50 years after potatoes so often grown and eaten together.

Haggis is like a peppery and slightly oatmealy black pudding with less of a blood taste, but still very meaty.
Veggie haggis is mostly lentils, seeds, some chopped carrot and peas and oatmeal. Its nice if you're veggie but nothing like real haggis.

Fortunately our whole family love the real thing so we're having it on Weds. We also have haggis on St Andrews day and its great with macaroni cheese as a side dish if you don't like mashed tatties.

I'm going to try that - sounds brilliant 👍

I believe the Cairngorm cafe is now gone .
I have their cookbook though and it's great.

We love haggis. I don't like the veggie one as much. We always do the full works for burns night with a whisky cream. Then use the leftover haggis for chicken Balmoral and pakora. Yum!

That looks a bit like "A & B" roll, which is a cold meat made from (Aberdeen) beef and (Belfast) bacon, a bit like corned beef (British corned beef, not American corned beef). Not specifically made in Aberdeen, as far as I know. I remember it being sold alongside ham etc at the butcher's. It was quite spicy. I wonder if it still exists.

I agree with a PP, butteries are the best Aberdonian food.

Never liked neeps, tried haggis, not for me. More for other people then.

Hope those celebrating on Wednesday have a lovely evening.

I had haggis, chips from the chippy and peppercorn sauce on Friday night.
my god it was bloody lovely.
mind you I’m now in A&E awaiting my triple bypass but it was worth it.

A haggis supper from the chippy is the best though.

The haggis roll that I had in Inverness airport was amazing, remember that more fondly than the holiday itself.

I get all flustered. Like should I have the haddock, the haggis or the white pudding? 😭 Too many good choices.

I'm doing a Burns Night dinner again this year.

I've had a break from it for a couple of years, as I found the haggis main course with mashed neeps, haggis, mashed carrots and potatoes all with the same soft texture, a bit boring and samey.
So this year I'm going to make it with potato croquettes (hash browns would work too) for a bit of crunch, and unmashed carrots & peas, for some different textures.

I really like the spicy meaty flavour of haggis, but then I'm a big fan of all kinds of offal, black pudding, white pudding etc. This year I'm making onion gravy but I've made green peppercorn sauce and mushroom sauce previously, which both worked well with the haggis.

I remember discovering that swede was short for Swedish turnip when I first did the Burns Night menu! I keep meaning to try Balmoral Chicken, it sounds such a tasty combination.

So my menu is...
Smoked Scottish salmon (just a small portion)
Haggis, potato croquettes, peas & carrots, onion gravy

Cranachan with Scottish shortbread fingers.

Haggis fans - Lidl do frozen battered haggis balls. You need them in your life.

Witchcraft, I tell 'ee!

(sounds amazing).

Bloody Sainsbo were all out of Haggis just now.

The traditional soup for Burns Suppers is cock-a-leekie soup. Some people add prunes to that. In Scotland swedes are known as neeps. They have to be mashed with butter and pepper. I have served haggis, neeps and tatties in a tower. That's nice. Dessert could be cranachan or something with shortbread. I hope you are learning To A Haggis! 'Fair fae yet honest face, great chieftain o the puddin race'

Giggorata I'm going to a Burns Night Supper on Saturday evening and it is the Cranachan that I am most looking forward to.

Haggis is one of my favourite things. It's peppery and delicious. Can't go wrong:

Ada your menu sounds lovely! I'll come and do Tam O' Shanter for you