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🇬🇧 Traditional dishes from United Kingdom

3 dishes people actually cook in United Kingdom: what they are, how long they take, and what you need to buy.

What can you cook from United Kingdom? 3 traditional United Kingdom dishes, from Full English breakfast (30 min, the quickest) to Shepherd's pie (100 min, the longest). Each recipe is written step by step with full ingredient lists, free to read.

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Fish and chips

1 hour and 15 minutes · medium · 8 ingredients

Fish and chips, a traditional dish from United Kingdom

Chip-shop fish and chips: a beer batter kept ice cold and chips fried twice, once to cook them and once to crisp them.

  • 400 g cod fillets
  • 800 g floury potatoes
  • 200 g plain flour
  • 300 ml cold beer
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 1000 g beef dripping
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 2 tbsp malt vinegar

Full English breakfast

30 minutes · easy · 9 ingredients

Full English breakfast, a traditional dish from United Kingdom

A cooked breakfast plate of bacon, sausages, eggs, black pudding, mushrooms, grilled tomato and baked beans, with buttered toast.

  • 200 g bacon
  • 200 g sausages
  • 4 eggs
  • 150 g mushrooms
  • 200 g tomatoes
  • 400 g baked beans
  • 200 g black pudding
  • 4 toast
  • 20 g butter

Shepherd's pie

1 hour and 40 minutes · medium · 11 ingredients

Shepherd's pie, a traditional dish from United Kingdom

Minced lamb simmered down with Worcestershire sauce and tomato until the gravy is thick, then sealed under forked mashed potato and browned.

  • 500 g ground lamb
  • 1 onion
  • 1 carrot
  • 2 clove garlic
  • 2 tbsp tomato puree
  • 1 tbsp worcestershire sauce
  • 250 ml lamb stock
  • 100 g peas
  • 800 g floury potatoes
  • 50 g butter
  • 100 ml milk

What do people eat in United Kingdom?

Copper documents three dishes from United Kingdom: Fish and chips, Full English breakfast and Shepherd's pie. Butter and floury potatoes each appear in more than one recipe. All three are fried. Two of the three need an oven. Between them they use 26 different ingredients.

What ingredients do you need for cooking from United Kingdom?

The three recipes need 26 ingredients between them, of which 2 are shared by more than one dish. Floury potatoes the hardest to find: of the 586 dishes in Copper's atlas, 5 use floury potatoes. Every ingredient list on this page is complete, with quantities, and free to read.

How long do recipes from United Kingdom take?

Full English breakfast is the quickest at 30 minutes. Shepherd's pie is the longest at 100 minutes. The median is 75 minutes — a weekend dish rather than a weeknight one.

Which dish from United Kingdom is easiest to make at home?

Full English breakfast is rated easy — start there. The full method is on its recipe page, step by step, free to read.

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