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Irish Mirror
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David Kent

Dubliners aghast after Nigella Lawson highlights special coddle recipe

Nigella Lawson has had her social media pages inundated with horrified Dubliners - after she shared a picture and recipe for coddle.

The dish, a staple for many in the capital growing up, usually consists of boiled sausage and rashers with potatoes, sliced onion and a variety of herbs.

Everyone will have their own variation, and though it doesn't look appeasing in any way, most Dubliners will defend the dish against any hate.

Which is where the celebrity chef comes into things.

Yesterday, she tweeted her weekly Guest Recipe from Cookbook Corner - and it for St Patrick's week, it was coddle!

But it looked an awful lot different, something which many Irish users picked up on.

And they were quick to rush to reply to Nigella.

One person wrote: "Right, who's telling her?"

A second laughed: "Lovely as it looks (&, no doubt, tastes), THAT is not Dublin coddle, at all, at all. Clue: Dublin coddle does not a pretty picture make."

And a third joked: "What’s going on here, this looks beautiful? I’ve only ever seen pictures of coddle that look like something you would eat on a dare.", with another agreeing by adding: "This is the best looking coddle I've ever seen. Usually the photos are so awful, I have to scroll past really quickly before the image imprints on my brain"

Nigella saw the funny side of it though.

In a response to Gaz Smith, the head chef at Michaels' in Dublin, who had said "Bold move entering coddle twitter Nigella, I wish you safe passage in dark n dangerous waters", Nigella simply put an emoji of a man wearing a construction hat.

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