Burn’s night supper - Haggis, neeps and tatties. Follow me on Instagram at e.wcoralblush Thankyou for your donations 🙏🏼 = paypal.me/coralblush. The Burns Night celebration centres on the entrance of the haggis (a type of sausage prepared using a sheep's stomach stuffed with its own heart liver and lungs), which is traditionally piped in to the sound of bagpipes. Ever wondered what Burn's Night is?
Haggis with neeps and tatties. [Photograph: Shutterstock]. Having laid down a strong foundation of food, the drinking portion of the evening begins. Scotland's most famous poet, Robert Burns (also known as Rabbie Burns), wrote a poem entitled, "Address to a Haggis". You can cook Burn’s night supper - Haggis, neeps and tatties using 5 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve that.
Ingredients of Burn’s night supper - Haggis, neeps and tatties
- It's 1 of freshly caught Haggis.
- You need 400 g of mashed potatoes (tatties).
- You need 400 g of mashed swede (neeps).
- You need of HP Sauce.
- It's of Plenty of good Whisky.
Pour a little sauce around each stack and then over the top. Serve the haggis, neeps and tatties stack hot with some more of that single malt whisky you. And of course, nothing says a Burns Night supper party menu like mounds of piping hot haggis and tatties - it's what Rabbie would have wanted. As the great bard once said: "The best laid schemes o' mice an' men gang aft agley." So if you want to throw the perfect Burns Night dinner party, we've got..and neeps recipe is the starring dish for both Hogmanay celebrations or more traditionally a Burn's Night supper.
Burn’s night supper - Haggis, neeps and tatties step by step
- First stalk and trap your haggis (or get one prepared from the supermarket if you can’t get to Scotland for the hunt).
- Prepare the haggis.
- Cook the mashed potatoes with plenty of butter.
- Cook the mashed swede with even more butter.
- Serve with HP sauce, salt and pepper and plenty of Whisky 🥃.
It is always served with mashed potatoes (tatties) and mashed turnips (neeps). However, in Scotland, neeps are considered rutabaga. The haggis makes or breaks this recipe, so. Haggis, Neeps and Tatties is a classic Scottish dish and we've made it super simple to help you throw a Burn's Night to remember. We earn a commission for products purchased through some links in this article.