How to pronounce Boxty

Boxty is written bacstaí where it comes from. In the International Phonetic Alphabet it is /ˈbɒksti/. In plain English letters that is BOK-stee, with the stress on the syllable in capitals. There is no recording by a native speaker yet, so use the spelling and the IPA.

What is Boxty?

Boxty is a bread or pastry of Ireland. Where it comes from: Connacht and Ulster. People usually eat it for breakfast and at lunch or dinner. Its main ingredients are potato. It tastes savory.

Where Boxty comes from

Boxty is one of 18 signature dishes of Ireland on this map.

• Irish stew stobhach Gaelach · Main dish · Countryside

  Irish stew was a meal of poor country homes: mutton, often from an older sheep, simmered for hours in one pot with potatoes, onions and water, with little else.

• Soda bread arán sóide · Bread & pastry · All Ireland

  Irish soda bread is raised with bicarbonate of soda and buttermilk instead of yeast, so it can be mixed and baked within an hour.

• Colcannon cál ceannann · Main dish · Munster

  Colcannon is mashed potato mixed with chopped kale or cabbage and spring onions, enriched with butter and milk.

• Dublin coddle cadal · Main dish · Leinster

  Coddle, often called Dublin coddle, is a one-pot dish of roughly sliced pork sausages and rashers of back bacon layered with chunky potatoes and sliced onion, seasoned with little more than salt, pepper and sometimes parsley, and traditionally sometimes barley.

• Spice bag mála spíosrach · Street food · Leinster

  A spice bag is a paper bag of deep-fried chips and shredded chicken tossed with salt and chilli seasoning, red and green peppers, sliced chillies and fried onions, often with a tub of curry sauce on the side.

• Chicken fillet roll rollóg filléid sicín · Street food · Leinster

  The chicken fillet roll, also called a hot chicken roll, is a baguette filled with a breaded fillet of processed chicken, plain, spicy or Southern-fried, with butter or mayonnaise and a choice of extras such as lettuce, onion, cheese, stuffing or potato wedges.

Food of Ireland

Dishes like Boxty in other countries

Same type of dish and similar main ingredients as Boxty:

• Lefse · Bread & pastry · Norway

  Lefse is a traditional soft Norwegian flatbread, also found in parts of Sweden.

• Moskole · Bread & pastry · Podhale (Lesser Poland), Poland

  Moskole are flat cakes of the highlanders of the northern Western Carpathians, known by this name mainly in the Żywiec area, Orawa, Podhale and Spisz.

• Focaccia barese · Bread & pastry · Bari, Italy

  Focaccia barese is a thick, soft flatbread from Bari made with a dough that includes boiled potato, baked in a round pan with plenty of olive oil and topped with cherry tomatoes, black olives, oregano and salt.

• Shanga шаньга · Bread & pastry · Russian North and Urals, Russia

  Shanga is an open round bun of the Russian North and the Urals, also part of Komi, Mari and Udmurt cooking.