Traditional British cuisine: the best recipes

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:14

British cuisine is often criticized by gourmets and gourmets. The British appreciate practicality, and therefore rarely pay attention to both the form and the content of lunches and dinners. However, some national dishes of the United Kingdom are widely known and popular all over the world. Today we want to tell you about the peculiarities of British cuisine, as well as offer you some simple but quite interesting recipes.

UK diet

The British are very conservative, and therefore the traditional schedule of breakfasts, lunches and dinners has been preserved for centuries. What does the daily routine of the average subject of Queen Elizabeth look like?

It's a well-known fact that today's Brits love to have a cup of coffee in bed. This ritual helps them to fully wake up, as well as prepare for the hardships of the coming day. AfterAfter that they go to the kitchen to prepare breakfast. Thanks to Russian films about Sherlock Holmes, a stereotype has developed that in the morning the British eat only porridge (and oatmeal). However, this statement is only partially true. Oatmeal may indeed be on the tables of British citizens, but most often in their homes they serve scrambled eggs and bacon, sausages, toasted slices of bread, tea or coffee.

Between the first and second breakfast, the British usually drink tea. And most often it is diluted with heavy cream or cow's milk. Interestingly, the British call tea with lemon "Russian drink" and consider it somewhat strange. For tea drinking, of course, they serve cookies or any other pastries. For lunch (we may unknowingly call it lunch) modern Brits often eat sandwiches or hot dogs. Often, working citizens during a break go to eat at the nearest fast food establishment.

It is impossible to imagine the British diet without the traditional "fife-o-clock", or five-hour tea drinking. At this time, children and adults enjoy a freshly brewed drink, which is usually served with muffins, cupcakes, cookies and sweet buns. For those who are very hungry, sandwiches with vegetables, sour cream and herbs are often prepared. An English dinner usually starts after seven o'clock in the evening. Meat, stewed vegetables, soups and broths are served on the table.

What popular British dishes can you recommend to Russians? Next, we will offer you some interesting recipes.

Yorkshire pudding

British national cuisine is often associated with this particular dish. Many people think that pudding is a sweet dessert garnished with chocolate or nuts. In fact, there are many types of a popular English product. Puddings are made from cereals, dairy products, fat, dried fruits, meat and even fish. The recipe for the famous Christmas pudding includes 16 ingredients and is prepared several months before the holiday. It is customary to douse it with rum during serving and set it on fire right on the festive table.

Fortunately, British cuisine (whose recipes can sometimes shock the unprepared cook) knows the recipe for a simple but delicious Yorkshire pudding. This dish is made from dough and served at the table along with meat dishes. Famous chef and showman Dami Oliver suggests cooking it with the following products:

• Wheat flour and milk, one glass each.
• Chicken egg.
• Pitted olives - five pieces.
• S alt - one pinch.
• Vegetable oil.

The recipe for Yorkshire pudding is very simple:

• First, turn on the oven and place the cupcake molds in it.
• Sift flour into a bowl and mix it with s alt. Pour in the milk and beaten egg, then whisk all the ingredients.
• Cut the olives into half rings and put them in the resulting mass.
• Heated forms grease with oil using a silicone brush. Pour the dough into them and send the blanksbake.

Ready-made puddings can be served with tea, as well as with first or second courses.

English meat pie

What else can traditional British cuisine surprise gourmets and culinary experts? Of course, we are talking about classic meat pies! In the UK, they are an indispensable attribute of holidays, picnics or Sunday dinners.

Ingredients:

• Pork - 500 grams.
• Smoked bacon - 100 grams.
• S alt - two teaspoons (one for the dough, and the second for the filling).
• Butter - 25 grams.
• Fat - 75 grams.
• Flour - 240 grams.
• Eggs - two pieces (one for dough and one for greasing).
• Gelatin - six grams.
• Meat broth - 250 grams.
• Herbs (basil, thyme) - one teaspoon.
• Ground black pepper - half a teaspoon.
• Nutmeg - a third of a teaspoon.
• Water - 100 ml.

Recipe

• Cut meat and bacon into cubes, then mix with s alt, herbs and spices.
• Melt fat and butter in a frying pan, then add water and s alt.
• In a separate bowl, mix the sifted flour with the egg. Pour the hot liquid from the pan into the bowl. Stir the ingredients with a spoon and then knead the dough with your hands. Put it in the refrigerator for half an hour.
• Take a baking dish with high sides and grease it with oil. Divide the dough into two parts. Roll out the big one, lay it outto the bottom of the dish and form the sides.
• Put the filling on the base, and make a “pie lid” from a small piece of dough. Pinch the edges, poke a hole in the top and brush the baking surface with beaten egg. Bake the cake in the oven for 45 minutes.
• Dissolve the gelatine in the hot meat broth. When the cake is ready, pour the liquid through the hole in the lid.

It will be possible to serve treats to the table after it has cooled down.

Tuna Sandwiches (British Cuisine)

The British are happy to snack on sandwiches during lunch, prepare them for breakfast or for the traditional five-hour tea party. Also, this snack is often taken to a picnic or prepared for children at school. Here is a list of necessary products:

• Sandwich bread - eight pieces.
• Canned tuna - 300 grams.
• Eggs - four pieces.
• Cheddar cheese - four slices.
• Tomatoes - two pieces.
• Red bulb.
• Salad - four leaves.
• Mayonnaise - 80 grams.
• Capers - one tablespoon.
• Anchovies - two pieces.

Appetizer recipe

• Boil the eggs, peel them and cut into rings.
• Free the onion from the husk and cut into strips.
• Cut the tomatoes into slices as well.
• Open the jar of fish, drain the liquid and mash the contents with a fork.
• Chop anchovies and capers, and then mix with mayonnaise. If desired, you can add a little mustard.
• Greasebread sauce. Put canned food and prepared vegetables on half of the pieces. Cover the blanks with the remaining pieces.

Reheat the sandwiches in a sandwich maker and cut them diagonally before serving.

Stuffed goose

An indispensable attribute of a festive English table is a bird stuffed with fruits, vegetables, nuts and herbs.

Ingredients:

• Goose - two kilograms.
• Onion - one and a half kilograms.
• White bread - one kilo.
• Milk - two glasses.
• S alt - three teaspoons.
• Ground black pepper - half a teaspoon.
• Nutmeg - two pinches.
• Sage - two or three branches.

Feast Recipe

• First you need to process the bird, wash and dry it with paper towels. Then cut off the tail and remove the internal fat.
• Grate the goose with s alt and pepper, then refrigerate for two hours.
• Bake an unpeeled onion in the oven, peel and chop it.
• First soak the bread in milk, then squeeze it out and mix with onions. Add half a spoonful of s alt, herbs and spices to foods.
• Fill the goose with the mixture and sew. If you want the finished bird to be ruddy, then rub the skin with lemon juice.
• Pour some water into a deep pan, put the bird in it.

Bake the holiday treat for two hours at 180 degrees.

Conclusion

We hope that British cuisine (you have already studied photos and recipes of some dishes in our material) will arouse genuine interest in you. The peoples who live on the territory of the United Kingdom contribute to its development and prosperity. Each region of the country is famous for its special dishes and recipes. So, in England you can try black pudding, in Scotland beef tripe, and in Ireland colcannon from mashed vegetables. After the colonization of India, spices and spices became widespread in Britain. And in recent years, dishes sold in fast food chains have gained great popularity. Thus, studying the national cuisine of this amazing country, you can trace the history of entire peoples, learn a lot of new and interesting things.