DISH RESEARCH · Main dish
Crubeens
Also known as: Crúibíní
Irish salted pig trotters simmered with vegetables and herbs, with optional mustard.
About Crubeens
Darina Allen's crubeens are Irish salted pig trotters, a longstanding favourite that she associates with traditional pub food. Her rendition presents the trotters as simple boiled pork pieces with aromatic vegetables.
Onion, carrot, bay leaf, parsley stalks, thyme and peppercorns give the cooking liquid its vegetable and herb character. The salted trotters supply the dish's substantial pork flavour.
Allen offers the crubeens warm or cold. This warm presentation includes a little prepared mustard as an optional accompaniment, giving a sharp contrast to the pork.
Allergens in this recipe
Optional additions: Mustard.
Other allergen details are unconfirmed.
Ingredients vary by restaurant. Confirm your allergens with staff before ordering.
Ingredients in Crubeens
Darina Allen's boiled salted crubeens.
- Prepared salted pig trottersProtein
- OnionAromatic
- CarrotAromatic
- Bay leafAromatic
- Parsley stalksAromatic
- ThymeAromatic
- PeppercornsSeasoningIngredient page not linked
- WaterLiquid
- Prepared mustardAccompaniment · Optional
Ingredient details & uncertainties
Allergen information is incomplete. Unconfirmed details do not establish that an allergen is absent.
- Prepared salted pig trotters: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual29 explicitly defines crubeens as salted pigs trotters, broader animal-part candidate retains salted form; full upstream cure unknown, no invented curing method.
- Onion: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Carrot: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Bay leaf: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Parsley stalks: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Thyme: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Peppercorns: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual29 generic peppercorns, black/white species unprovided.
- Water: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Prepared mustard (optional): Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Mustard source-confirmed. Actual29 optional little mustard if fancied, full condiment formula unknown; Mustard positive.
Origins & food traditions
Countries
- Ireland
- IrelandCatalogue link pending review
Cuisines & regions
- Irish Cuisine
- Irish CuisineCatalogue link pending review
AI-generated illustration of one possible presentation. Recipes and ingredients vary; the image does not establish allergen content.