Common ingredients for Ireland

These are common ingredients you may see on packaging and menus in Ireland. Local words are left unchanged so they stay readable in the original language; translate this page if you want supporting text and English names in your own language.

• Bacon (bacon)

  Often refers to back bacon (rasher) in Ireland

• Bainne (milk)

  Milk

• Beef broth (beef broth)
• Beef stock (beef stock)
• Black pudding (black pudding)

  Often called drisheen in Cork, though recipes differ

• Buttermilk (buttermilk)

  Bláthach

• Cairéad (carrot)

  Carrot

• Chicken broth (chicken broth)
• Chicken stock (chicken stock)
• Eorna (barley)

  Barley

• Ime (butter)

  Butter

• Mushroom (mushroom)

  Beacán

• Mutton (mutton)

  Mutton

• Oinniún (onion)

  Onion

• Plúr cruithneachta (wheat flour)

  Wheat flour

• Pork fat (pork fat)
• Pork sausage (pork sausage)
• Práta (potato)

  Potato

• Preservatives (preservatives)
• Rusk (rusk)

  Common filler in traditional Irish sausages

• Sausage (sausage)

  Isríse

• Sodium nitrite (sodium nitrite)
• Uan (lamb)

  Lamb

• Ubh (egg)

  Egg

• Worcestershire sauce (worcestershire sauce)