Food of United Kingdom
British food is comforting and rooted in good local produce: roast meats, pies, fish from the coasts, root vegetables, dairy and a strong baking tradition. Each nation has its own specialties, from Scottish oats and haggis to Welsh cakes, Northern Irish soda farls and English cooked breakfasts. Tea, with a scone or a biscuit, anchors the day, and curries from South Asian communities are also everyday favorites.
Roast beef with Yorkshire pudding
- Main dishes (13)
- Breakfast (4)
- Street food (5)
- Soups (2)
- Salads (2)
- Breads (3)
- Desserts and sweets (10)
- Drinks (5)
- Fruits and produce (6)
Staples
- potatoes
- beef
- lamb
- oats
- butter
- cheddar
- wheat flour
Signature flavors
- mustard
- mint
- malt vinegar
- Worcestershire sauce
- horseradish
- thyme
- black pepper
Main dishes

Battered white fish and thick chips with salt and vinegar.
Key ingredients: cod or haddock, potatoes, flour, oilFull guide →
Roast meat with potatoes, vegetables, Yorkshire pudding and gravy.
Key ingredients: beef or chicken, potatoes, parsnips, gravyFull guide →
Minced lamb stew topped with mashed potato.
Key ingredients: ground lamb, onion, carrot, potatoesFull guide →
A spiced oat and meat pudding from Scotland, served with neeps and tatties.
Key ingredients: lamb, oats, onion, spicesFull guide →
Grilled chicken in a creamy tomato curry, a British favorite.
Key ingredients: chicken, yogurt, tomato, cream, garam masalaFull guide →
Beef mince and vegetables under creamy mashed potato.
Key ingredients: ground beef, onion, carrot, potatoes
A pastry-topped pie of beef and kidney in thick gravy.
Key ingredients: beef, kidney, onion, puff pastry
Pork sausages on creamy mashed potatoes with onion gravy.
Key ingredients: pork sausages, potatoes, onion, gravy
Sausages baked in Yorkshire pudding batter.
Key ingredients: sausages, eggs, flour, milk
Slow-baked lamb stew topped with sliced potatoes.
Key ingredients: lamb, onions, potatoes, stock
A boiled egg wrapped in sausage meat, breaded and fried.
Key ingredients: egg, sausage meat, breadcrumbs
Cheese, pickle, bread and salad, a cold pub meal.
Key ingredients: cheddar, pickle, crusty bread, apple, salad
Scottish smoked haddock chowder with potato and onion.
Key ingredients: smoked haddock, potatoes, onion, milkBreakfast

Eggs, bacon, sausages, tomato, mushrooms, beans and toast.
Key ingredients: eggs, bacon, sausages, beans, toastFull guide →
Creamy oats cooked in milk or water, with honey or salt.
Key ingredients: oats, milk, honey
Smoked herring served with buttered toast.
Key ingredients: smoked herring, butter, toast
Soft griddle cakes with holes that soak up butter.
Key ingredients: flour, yeast, milk, butterStreet food

A crimped pastry parcel of beef, potato, swede and onion.
Key ingredients: beef, potato, swede, onion, pastryFull guide →
Seasoned sausage meat baked in flaky pastry.
Key ingredients: sausage meat, puff pastry, egg wash
Hot chips in a buttered bread roll.
Key ingredients: chips, bread roll, butter
Crisp bacon in soft white bread with brown sauce.
Key ingredients: bacon, bread, butter, brown sauce
A baked potato with fillings like beans and cheese.
Key ingredients: potato, butter, cheddar, beansSoups

A thick barley and vegetable broth with lamb.
Key ingredients: barley, lamb, carrots, turnip, leeks
A smooth, creamy soup of leeks and potatoes.
Key ingredients: leeks, potatoes, stock, creamSalads

Cold chicken in a mild curry-mayonnaise dressing.
Key ingredients: chicken, mayonnaise, mild curry, apricots
Prawns in pink sauce on shredded lettuce.
Key ingredients: prawns, lettuce, mayonnaise, ketchupBreads

A tender quick bread served with jam and cream.
Key ingredients: flour, butter, milk, sugarFull guide →
Welsh tea-soaked fruit loaf.
Key ingredients: dried fruit, tea, flour, sugar
A griddle-cooked quick bread from Northern Ireland.
Key ingredients: flour, buttermilk, baking sodaDesserts and sweets

Date sponge drowned in warm toffee sauce.
Key ingredients: dates, brown sugar, butter, creamFull guide →
Banana and toffee on a biscuit base with cream.
Key ingredients: bananas, toffee, biscuits, creamFull guide →
Stewed apples under a buttery crumb topping, served with custard.
Key ingredients: apples, flour, butter, sugarLayers of sponge, fruit, custard and cream.
Key ingredients: sponge, fruit, custard, cream
Crushed meringue, strawberries and whipped cream.
Key ingredients: meringue, strawberries, cream
A light jam-and-cream sandwich cake.
Key ingredients: butter, sugar, eggs, flour, jam
Custard-baked layers of buttered bread and raisins.
Key ingredients: bread, butter, milk, eggs, raisins
Scottish dessert of oats, cream, raspberries and honey.
Key ingredients: toasted oats, cream, raspberries, honey
Griddled, lightly spiced currant cakes.
Key ingredients: flour, currants, butter, sugar
Buttery Scottish biscuits.
Key ingredients: butter, flour, sugarDrinks

The national drink: strong black tea with a splash of milk.
Key ingredients: black tea, milk, sugar
Fruit cordial diluted with cold water.
Key ingredients: orange cordial, water
Blackcurrant drink served hot or cold.
Key ingredients: blackcurrant cordial, water
A zingy ginger soda.
Key ingredients: ginger, sugar, lemon, sparkling water
A bright orange Scottish soda.
Key ingredients: carbonated water, sugarFruits and produce

Bramley and Cox apples for baking and eating.
Key ingredients: pie, crumble, sauce
Summer strawberries from Kent.
Key ingredients: cream, jam, Eton mess
Tart dark berries made into cordial and jam.
Key ingredients: cordial, jam, crumble
Tart green berries cooked in fools and pies.
Key ingredients: fool, pie, jam
Forced Yorkshire rhubarb baked in crumbles.
Key ingredients: crumble, fool, compote
Small tart plums used in jams.
Key ingredients: jam, pie, chutneyDish guides from United Kingdom











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Descriptions written by Intercontinental Chef. Dishes are listed as commonly eaten today; many are shared across neighbouring countries.
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- Sunday roast lamb Cock Inn Henham Essex England 01: Acabashi, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Homerton College - Shepherd's pie (cropped): Oxfordian Kissuth, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Scotland Haggis: Chris Brown, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Chicken tikka masala (cropped): Michael Hays, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Steak and kidney pie at the White Hart Inn, Moreton, Essex, England 01: Acabashi, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Sausage and mash with peas: anokarina, CC BY-SA 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Toad in the hole: Robert Gibert, Public domain (Wikimedia Commons)
- Lancashire hotpot: alexcwood Camera location51° 23′ 55.2″ N, 0° 18′ 02.4″ W View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap 51.398667;, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- One scotch egg (No jar of Marmite): Unhindered by Talent, CC BY-SA 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Ploughmans lunch: Clothahump (talk), Public domain (Wikimedia Commons)
- Cullen Skink: Metukkalihis, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Full English breakfast (cropped): Joadl, CC BY-SA 3.0 at (Wikimedia Commons)
- Oatmeal (1): Renee Comet (Photographer), Public domain (Wikimedia Commons)
- Kipper: No machine-readable author provided. Gaius Cornelius assumed (based on copyright claims)., Public domain (Wikimedia Commons)
- Buttered crumpet2: Unknown, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Cornish Pasty (cropped): David Johnson [1], CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Sausage roll - One Market, One Garden Brighton (cropped): Andy Li, CC0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Chip Butty: Annie Mole from London, UK, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Bacon sandwich (14450831119): Bex Walton from London, England, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- BakedPotatoWithButter: Renee Comet (photographer), Public domain (Wikimedia Commons)
- Lunch at Inveraray Castle - Scotch broth (14342541740): bnhsu, CC BY-SA 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Mon Plaisir, Covent Garden, London (3717184145): Ewan Munro from London, UK, CC BY-SA 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- English Coronation Chicken: BrigadierG, CC0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Cocktail 1 bg 060702: see below., Public domain (Wikimedia Commons)
- Scone varieties: User:Dave souza, CC BY-SA 2.5 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Bara Brith (3320696816): zingyyellow...! from Wales Cymru UK, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Ben W Bell Soda Bread Farl 05 June 2007: w:en:User:Canterbury Tail, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Sticky toffee pudding at the Black Swan - Stierch: Sarah Stierch, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Banoffeepie: Glen MacLarty from Sydney, Australia., CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Fresh baked apple crisp 01: Infrogmation of New Orleans, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Eton Mess 2025-2 (cropped): Exx8, CC0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Victoria Sponges: euphro, CC BY-SA 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Bread pudding June 2020: Philafrenzy, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Cranachan (4332953688): Saskia van de Nieuwenhof from Edinburgh, United Kingdom, CC BY-SA 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Closeup of Welsh cakes, February 2009: zingyyellow...wish I could bend space/time, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Shortbread House round biscuit : Elumineau, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Nice Cup of Tea: Vanderdecken, Public domain (Wikimedia Commons)
- Garcinia indica yellow and red syrups and drinks: Subray Hegde, CC BY 1.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Ribena blackcurrant juice drink: Mx. Granger, CC0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Vernors ginger ale: Larry Page, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Barr IRN-BRU Sugar Free (3 of 3): Ubcule, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- 95apple: Agricultural Research Service (Research agent of United States Department of Agriculture), Public domain (Wikimedia Commons)
- Garden strawberry (Fragaria × ananassa) single2: Ivar Leidus, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Ribes nigrum a1: Jerzy Opioła, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Gooseberry sectioned: Jonathan Cardy, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Rheum rhabarbarum.2006-04-27.uellue: Dieter Weber (User:Uellue), CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Damson plum fruit: Jonathan Billinger, CC BY-SA 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
