British tradition
British Comfort Food
Pies, stews and oven bakes for cold evenings.
Recipes
British Comfort Food recipes
Recipe · 1 hr 55 min
Bacon and Cabbage with Parsley Sauce
Ireland's classic family dinner: a boiled bacon joint, cabbage cooked in the same pot and a creamy parsley sauce.
Recipe · 3 hr 30 min
Beef and Ale Pie
Tender beef braised in dark ale under a golden puff pastry lid: a proper pub classic at home.
Recipe · 3 hr 30 min
Beef and Guinness Stew
Chunks of braising beef slow-cooked with stout, onions and carrots until tender, in a deep, glossy gravy.
Recipe · 2 hr 5 min
Cawl
Wales' slow-cooked lamb and leek broth, served with bread and a wedge of Welsh cheese.
Recipe · 50 min
Cawl Cennin (Welsh Leek and Potato Soup)
A simple, chunky soup of leeks, potatoes and stock: humble Welsh cooking built around the national emblem.
Recipe · 35 min
Champ
Creamy mashed potato beaten with scallions and milk, served with a pool of melting butter.
Recipe · 2 hr
Cock-a-Leekie Soup
Chicken, leeks and a few prunes simmered into a clear, savoury broth: one of Scotland's oldest soups.
Recipe · 40 min
Colcannon
Buttery mashed potato folded with kale or cabbage and spring onions, served with a well of melting butter.
Recipe · 2 hr 45 min
Cornish Pasty
Beef skirt, potato, swede and onion, baked raw inside a crimped pastry case: the traditional way.
Recipe · 45 min
Cullen Skink
A thick, creamy soup of smoked haddock, potato and onion from the Moray coast of Scotland.
Recipe · 2 hr 30 min
Dublin Coddle
Sausages, bacon, onions and potatoes cooked slowly in stock: a warming one-pot supper from old Dublin.
Recipe · 1 hr 15 min
Faggots in Onion Gravy
Savoury pork and liver meatballs baked in a rich onion gravy: a thrifty classic of Wales and the Black Country.
Recipe · 1 hr 10 min
Haggis, Neeps and Tatties with Whisky Sauce
Happy St Andrew's Day: Scotland's national dish, made easy, with buttery neeps, fluffy tatties and a creamy whisky sauce.
Recipe · 45 min
Irish Seafood Chowder
Creamy, chunky and full of fish: the chowder served in pubs all along the Irish coast, with brown bread for dipping.
Recipe · 2 hr 20 min
Irish Stew
Lamb, potatoes and onions simmered slowly until tender: the plain, comforting stew of the Irish home kitchen.
Recipe · 1 hr 30 min
Macaroni Pie
Macaroni cheese baked inside a crisp hot-water crust: the Scottish bakery classic that sounds odd and tastes brilliant.
Recipe · 55 min
Mince and Tatties
Savoury beef mince simmered with onion and carrot, served with buttery mash: Scotland's favourite everyday supper.
Recipe · 2 hr 5 min
Scotch Broth
A hearty Scottish soup of lamb, pearl barley, split peas and root vegetables.
Recipe · 3 hr
Scottish Steak Pie
Slow-cooked beef in rich gravy under a puff pastry lid: the steak pie many Scottish families eat on New Year’s Day. Make the filling the day before.
Recipe · 1 hr 20 min
Shepherd's Pie
Lamb mince in a rich gravy under a golden, fork-ridged mashed potato crust: a British family classic.
Recipe · 1 hr 10 min
Stovies
Potatoes and onions slowly "stoved" in dripping with leftover roast meat: Scotland's great thrifty supper.
Recipe · 55 min
Tatws Pum Munud (Welsh Potato and Bacon Stew)
A thrifty Welsh one-pan supper of potatoes, onion and bacon gently simmered in stock. Quick to put together and cheap to make.
Recipe · 1 hr
Toad in the Hole
Sausages baked in a tall, crisp Yorkshire pudding batter and served with onion gravy.
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Part of British Isles cuisine.