You may already have several ideas about typical British food, but the most popular dish in England at the moment is… curry!
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British food has traditionally been based on beef, lamb, pork, chicken and fish and generally served with potatoes and one other vegetable. The most common and typical foods eaten in Britain include the sandwich, fish and chips, pies like the Cornish pasty, trifle and roasts dinners. Some of our main dishes have strange names like Bubble & Squeak and Toad-in-the-Hole.
The staple foods of Britain are meat, fish, potatoes, flour, butter and eggs. Many of our dishes are based on these foods.
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Traditional English dishes have had competition from other dishes over the years. Despite this, if you visit England, you can still be served up the traditional foods we have been eating for years.
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Yorkshire Pudding: is made from flour, eggs and milk, it is a sort of batter baked in the oven and usually moistened with gravy. The traditional way to eat a Yorkshire pudding is to have a large, flat one filled with gravy and vegetables as a starter of the meal. Then when the meal is over, any unused puddings should be served with jam or ice-cream as a dessert.
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Toad-in-the-hole: Similar to Yorkshire Pudding but with sausages placed in the batter before cooking.
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Fish and Chips: Fish (cod, haddock, huss, plaice) deep fried in flour batter with chips (fried potatoes) dressed in malt vinegar. this is England’s traditional take-away food or as US would say ‘To go’. Fish and chips are not normally home cooked but bought at a fish and chip shop (“Chippie”) to eat on premises or as a “take away”
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Shepherds’ Pie: Made with minced lamb and vegetables topped with mashed potato)
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Cottage Pie: Made with minced beef and vegetables topped with mashed potato.
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Bubble & Squeak: Typically made from cold vegetables that have been left over from a previous meal, often the Sunday roast. The chief ingredients are potatoes and cabbage, but carrots, peas, Brussels sprouts, and other vegetables can be added. The cold chopped vegetables (and cold chopped meat if used) are fried in a pan together with mashed potato until the mixture is well-cooked and brown on the sides. The name is a description of the action and sound made during the cooking process
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English breakfast: Eggs, bacon, sausages, fried bread, mushrooms, baked beans
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Bangers and Mash: Bangers are sausages in England. (The reason sausages were nicknamed bangers is that during wartime rationing they were so filled with water they often exploded when they were fried.)
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Black Pudding (Blood Pudding): Looks like a black sausage. It is made from dried pigs blood and fat). Eaten at breakfast time. Black pudding recipes vary from region to region, some are more peppery and some are more fatty than others.
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