This recipe is a Gerson Therapy version of the traditional Irish dish colcannon. Irish colcannon consist of mashed potato with green onions and either kale, savoy cabbage or green cabbage. In this recipe we use green cabbage. This lovely variation of regular mashed potatoes provides you with a refreshing option for a potato dish when following the Gerson diet.

The recipe is not complicated at all. You will need a food mill as well as some ready made vegetable stock to saute the cabbage and onion in. We recommend you save your vegetable peels as you go along and turn them into vegetable stock to be stored in glass containers in your fridge. Since the Gerson diet doesn’t permit cooking with oil, having vegetable stock on hand to cook with makes food prep easier and also ads extra nutrients to your meals. We have a recipe for making vegetable stock on the blog as well. Check that out and put every ounce of vegetable to use while following the Gerson Therapy.

A food mill is an essential kitchen equipment item you will need while following the Gerson Therapy. We recommend a stainless steel one so that chemicals don’t leach into the food.

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Irish Potato Puree

A Gerson Therapy version of the traditional Irish dish colcannon. Irish colcannon consist of mashed potato with green onions and either kale, savoy cabbage or green cabbage. In this recipe we use green cabbage.

Prep Time25

Cook Time30

Total Time55

Course: Side Dish

Keyword: Gerson diet, Gerson Therapy, Mashed Potato, Potato

Equipment

Food Mill

Ingredients

1 lb Potatoes, Russet or Yukon Gold
3 Green Onions
1/2 Green Cabbage
1/4 cup Vegetable Broth, homemade
2 TBSP Flax Oil
to taste chopped Parsley, fresh

Instructions

Wash and scrub potatoes with a natural vegetable brush. Don't peel them.
Place in a heavy saucepan with filtered water and bring to boil. Cover with a lid and turn the heat down. Cook slowly for about 30 minutes or until the potatoes are cooked through.
While the potatoes are cooking, wash and chop the cabbage, green onions and parsley.
Saute onions and cabbage in the vegetable broth for 15 minutes and set aside together with the chopped parsley.
Once the potatoes are cooked through, pass them through a food mill using the finest sieve. This will also remove the skins. Add a few tablespoons of homemade vegetable broth to the potatoes to get a nice soft, fluffy consistency.
Stir the chopped parsley, flax oil and cooked cabbage and green onion into the mashed potatoes. Keep some parsley to sprinkle over the dish once finished.

Notes

Vegetable broth can easily be made from all the vegetable peels and scraps you'll create from being on the Gerson diet. Get in the habit of keeping them in the fridge until you have enough to make a batch of broth. See the homemade vegetable broth recipe. Using broth to cook with will add extra nutrients to you food.