Traditional foods of the United Kingdom

England

Yorkshire Pudding

This dish is not usually eaten as a dessert like other puddings but instead as part of the main course or at a starter.Yorkshire pudding, made from flour, eggs and milk, is a sort of batter baked in the oven and usually moistened with gravy.

Toad in the Hole

A Yorkshire Pudding with sausages baked into it.

Bubble and Squeak

Typically made from cold vegetables that have been left over from a previous meal.. The chief ingredients are potato and cabbage, The cold chopped vegetables are fried in a pan together with mashed potato until the mixture is well-cooked and brown on the sides.

Trifle

Made with layers of sponge cake alternate with custard, jam or fruit and Whipped Cream. Sometimes alcohol-soaked sponge cake is used.

Northern Ireland

Boxty

Boxty is a weighty, starchy potato cake made with 50:50 mix of cooked mashed potatoes and grated, strained, raw potato.

Pasties

A mixture of sausage meat, onions, mashed potato is shaped like a burger, and always spiced with loads and loads of black pepper.

Champ

A delicious comfort food dish of potatoes mashed with lots of butter, warm milk and chopped spring onions

Irish Stew

A hearty casserole traditionally made with meat, potatoes, carrots and onions. The Ulster variety is made with steak pieces instead of lamb – cooked to a peppery slush and often served with thick slices of buttered bread.

Dulse

A salty, seaweed snack, originally harvested by fishermen to supplement their income when fishing was slack. Found at markets, and in some bars, it is also used in Robert Ditty’s sesame seed and dulse oatcakes, and in the Causeway Cheese Company’s cheese

Scotland

Porridge

Traditionally made with oatmeal and water and cooked with a touch of salt, add a touch of milk and sweeten with a sprinkle of brown sugar.

Black Pudding

Essentially, black pudding is a mixture of suet (raw beef or mutton fat), oats, blood, barley and a special blend of spices stuffed in a length of protein casing.

Haggis

Haggis Recipe

Wales

Traditional Welsh Food