I'm a foodie who was born and raised in the UK. Here are 11 British dishes everyone should try in their lifetime.
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- 24 May 2022
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For a country that once bullied the world into becoming its personal spice rack, typical British dishes are still, ironically, a riot of beige.
The UK's modern food culture is seriously diverse and exciting. In our cities, you can have sushi for lunch, and Dosa for dinner, with pakora or a bahn mi as a snack in between.
But we Brits still love our potatoes, overdone meat, and root vegetables — all of which come plastered with brown gravy so thick you could have it on toast. Which, unsurprisingly, some people do.
If you'd like to transport yourself to a damp, English Sunday afternoon, try one of these 10 delicious dishes, as curated by a begrudgingly nostalgic Brit:
I grew up in Cornwall where eating pasties weekly, if not daily, is the norm for most of the locals.
A Cornish pasty is a large, half-moon pastry enclosing chunks of beef skirt, finely chopped potato, and turnip with lashings of black pepper and a slab or two of butter.
The pastry, which is somewhere between shortcrust, flaky, and hot-water crust, should have the rigidity to withstand being transported, as traditionally they were taken down the tin mines to have as "crib" (Cornish for a mid-morning snack).
The pasty's edge is crimped on the side, never the top, and was traditionally thrown away because the miner's hands would have been covered in arsenic and other metals, which are a tad deadly if ingested.
If you're in the UK, I'm afraid you'll have to go to Cornwall if you'd like to eat a decent pasty.
In the UK it's traditional to have a roast dinner on a Sunday with your family, either at home or at the pub.
A Sunday roast is like a Thanksgiving or Christmas meal that occurs regularly.
It typically consists of roasted meat (often a whole chicken, a joint of beef, or pork with crackling) plus roast potatoes, root vegetables such as carrots and parsnips, and lashings of that aforementioned brown gravy.
Around Christmastime, roasts are often paired with our version of pigs in blanket — meat wrapped in more meat. Specifically, they are mini sausages hugged by a rasher of streaky bacon. Outrageous, I know.
Yorkshire puddings pair well with a roast.
Yorkshire puddings are clouds of cooked batter that puff up in the oven and soak up gravy like the most delicious sponge you've ever used.
They pair well with a roast, as does stuffing (usually sausage mixed with onions, sage, and breadcrumbs and served either inside the meat or cooked separately) and green vegetables. Read More...
