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Welsh Recipes

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Recipe list

11 recipes

Pans of tatws pum munud: sliced potatoes, onion and bacon simmering in stock

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.

A round of bara planc, Welsh bakestone bread, split and spread with butter and jam

Recipe · 2 hr 15 min

Bara Planc (Welsh Bakestone Bread)

A soft white bread cooked slowly on a griddle instead of in the oven: the old farmhouse bread of Wales.

A bowl of leek and potato soup in a clear broth

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.

Faggots in onion gravy with mashed potato and peas

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.

Laverbread spread on two slices of toast

Recipe · 30 min

Laverbread with Bacon and Cockles

Laverbread oatmeal cakes fried in bacon fat with cockles: the traditional breakfast of south-west Wales.

A buttered stack of crempog, Welsh pancakes

Recipe · 40 min

Crempog (Welsh Pancakes)

Thick buttermilk pancakes cooked on a bakestone, buttered and stacked high.

A bowl of meaty Welsh cawl with bread

Recipe · 2 hr 5 min

Cawl

Wales' slow-cooked lamb and leek broth, served with bread and a wedge of Welsh cheese.

Glamorgan sausages served with tomato chutney

Recipe · 1 hr 5 min

Glamorgan Sausages

Meat-free Welsh sausages of Caerphilly cheese, leek and breadcrumbs, crumbed and fried until golden.

A loaf of bara brith on a festive table

Recipe · 7 hr 30 min

Bara Brith

Wales' tea-soaked fruit loaf: moist, lightly spiced and best sliced thickly with salted butter.

Welsh cakes dusted with sugar

Recipe · 40 min

Welsh Cakes

Currant-studded griddle cakes, cooked on a bakestone and dusted with sugar.

Slices of Welsh rarebit, grilled and seasoned with black pepper

Recipe · 20 min

Welsh Rarebit

A savoury sauce of cheese, ale and mustard, spread on toast and grilled until bubbling and golden.