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Main Course

Known as a main course in Ireland and the UK and an entrée in some regions such as the U.S., serves as the centerpiece of a meal, delivering the most substantial and satisfying portion of food. It typically follows lighter starters like appetizers or soups and precedes dessert, anchoring the dining experience with its heft and complexity.

Main courses often balance flavors, textures, and nutrition, featuring a protein—such as meat, or fish —paired with complementary sides like vegetables, grains, or starches. The main course aims to leave diners full and content, both physically and culinarily.

From a cultural standpoint, Irish main courses are hearty and satisfying. Many of them feature meat alongside potatoes, such as Guinness Beef Stew or Shepherd’s Pie.

This part of the meal carries social and emotional weight. It’s the dish people linger over, discuss, and remember, they are often tied to family recipes. Main courses can be quickly and simply prepared for a weeknight dinner to a more formal affair for a dinner party with guests.

Don’t consider the main course as just food on a plate; it’s the moment where flavor, sustenance, and connection happen.

Three pieces of Flammkuchen on a plate garnished with thyme.

Flammkuchen (French-German Pizza)

Flammkuchen is a thin-crusted style flatbread slathered with crème fraîche, caramelized onions, crispy smoked bacon and fresh thyme.

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Mozzarella and Roasted Tomato Pizza

Mozzarella and Roasted Tomato Pizza is made from simple, fresh ingredients. Fresh pizza dough, mozzarella, oven roasted tomatoes, and pizza sauce, baked, then finished with torn fresh basil.

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Slow Rise Pizza Dough

Slow Rise Pizza Dough ferments slowly making a better tasting and textured pizza. This is a quick, from scratch, no knead Pizza Dough recipe.

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Meatloaf served with green beans and potatoes

BBQ Meatloaf

Different than the traditional ketchup glazed version, this BBQ Meatloaf recipe uses from-scratch ingredients. This is a quick, easy and delicious recipe that relies on freshly grated onion, flavored breadcrumbs and BBQ sauce to make it ‘next level.’

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Sliced of cooked chicken breast served with a creamy sauce with peas.

Chicken and Peas

Cream cheesy, white wine sauce served over breasts of pan seared Chicken with a copious amount of garden Peas. Serve it with rice, pasta or Crispy Red Potatoes.

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Spinach Ricotta Ravioli

Spinach Ricotta Ravioli is an Italian dumpling where the spinach appears alongside ricotta in the filling OR can be found as an ingredient in the egg pasta dough. Either way, spinach and ricotta are a perfect pairing. This recipe is…

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Swiss Cheese Fondue

This dish made from a variety of Swiss cheeses melted into white wine is a cold weather treat. Add nutmeg, Kirsch and a little garlic essence to round out the flavor. Served traditionally with sausage, bread, apple slices and pickles,…

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Best Recipe for Schnitzel – Jager or Wiener

This recipe is for a ‘no pound’ pork cutlet that is breaded and then pan fried. Serve it in one of two different styles either Jagerschnitzel / Jaegarschnitzel (Jägerschnitzel) or Wiener Schnitzel. Jagerschnitzel is German and is typically a pork…

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