Occasion

The Sunday Roast

Timings, trimmings and the kit that makes Sunday lunch easier.

Roast beef with Yorkshire pudding, potatoes and gravy — Photo: Acabashi via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped

The Sunday roast (a roasted joint with potatoes, vegetables, Yorkshire puddings and gravy) is the weekly ritual of British home cooking. Most of the challenge is timing: everything has to be ready at once.

Recipes

The Sunday Roast recipes

Roast potatoes served with roast duck, parsnips and broccoli

Recipe · 1 hr 25 min

Crispy Roast Potatoes

Fluffy inside and shatteringly crisp outside: the essential Sunday roast side.

Recipe · 1 hr 5 min

Yorkshire Puddings

Tall, crisp Yorkshires: a simple batter, very hot fat, and an oven door kept shut.

Recipe · 2 hr 30 min

Beef Wellington

Practise this Advent Sunday and it will be perfect for Christmas: beef fillet wrapped in mushrooms, ham and golden puff pastry.

Brussels sprouts and bacon being fried in a cast-iron pan

Recipe · 25 min

Brussels Sprouts with Bacon and Chestnuts

The recipe that wins over sprout sceptics: crisp-edged sprouts fried with smoky bacon and sweet chestnuts in 15 minutes.

A honey-glazed ham scored in a diamond pattern on a carving board

Recipe · 2 hr 25 min

Honey and Mustard Glazed Gammon

Simmered until tender, then roasted with a sticky honey-mustard glaze: a Sunday centrepiece that also gives you ham for the week.

Recipe · 2 hr 10 min

Roast Beef

A beef joint roasted to your liking and rested well, with the timings, temperatures and gravy for a proper Sunday lunch.

A roast chicken dinner plate with broccoli and gravy

Recipe · 1 hr 55 min

Roast Chicken with Bread Sauce

A simple lemon-and-thyme roast chicken with the very British side of creamy, clove-scented bread sauce.

Slices of roast lamb with roast potatoes, green vegetables and mint sauce

Recipe · 2 hr 35 min

Roast Lamb with Mint Sauce

A leg of lamb roasted with garlic and rosemary, rested until juicy and served with sharp, homemade mint sauce.

Roast pork and crackling with roast potatoes, parsnips and peas

Recipe · 2 hr 10 min

Roast Pork with Crackling and Apple Sauce

A pork loin roasted with salted, scored skin for crisp crackling, served with sharp homemade apple sauce.

Two golden roast turkeys resting on a board

Recipe · 3 hr 35 min

Roast Turkey for Christmas Dinner

A juicy, golden Christmas turkey without the guesswork: butter under the foil, a meat thermometer to tell you when it is done, and a proper rest before carving.