10 recipes for typical English food: Fall in love with its food

10 recipes for typical English food: Fall in love with its food. An important part of culture is the food and that’s why you’re going to discover the best typical English foods. In our summer immersion programmes and our academic trips abroad, you will experience this and more, but to whet your appetite and activate your curiosity, we bring you a delicious post.

One of the best parts of a travelling experience is the food, we recently gave you hand with how to order in a restaurant in English, but if you’re going to travel to England, you should take a look at the dishes that we’ve highlighted below.

In this article, we are going to give you recipes for typical English foods so that when you return from your holiday, you can unleash your culinary talent and continue to savour the best taste from the British Islands.

What is the cuisine that most represents England?

Its not easy to define gastronomy, but if we had to explain its style, we would say that it’s a traditional British cuisine in which flavours and textures from China, India or North America are mixed. The influence of the colonies on English cuisine has been fundamental throughout its history.

In many of the typical English recipes, the importance of natural products is observed, an aspect that was introduced in the Middle Ages. Among the most popular foods are old dishes such as roast beef, empanadas, fried fish and sweets.

Most common ingredients and food in English cuisine

If you want to know the best recipes for traditional British food, it’s important that you know the most used ingredients.

Bread- The Chorleywood baking process developed in this country and then spread throughout the world. There are also many types of bread: stottie cake, cob or cottage.

Cheese- There are more than 700 varieties of English cheeses. The best known have a hard texture and are made with cow’s milk. Cheese is the base of many recipes, a very simple one is macaroni cheese and cauliflower.

Tarts, puddings and pastries- Pies filled with meat are one of those dishes which dates back to the Middle Ages.

Fish and seafood– There is a wide variety of dishes, such as fish and chips which we will tell you how to make in the next section, which use fish and seafood. The most popular are cod, seabass or brill. Seafood is an important part of England’s culture and cuisine and if you’re going to travel to Whitstable, you can’t miss the oyster festival and its rich flavours. Oysters, crab meat, mussels, prawns and sea snails are all popular in gastronomy.

Sandwiches- A word of English invention. They put anything between two slices of bread; pickles, roast meat, cheese, pickles, chicken salad, ham among others.

Sausage- There are about 400 varieties of sausage in England. Pork and beef are the most common meats used for making sausages.

Shortcrust pastry and puff pastry- They are used for pastries and main dishes, both hot and cold.

Today, you are going to discover 10 recipes for typical English foods. It’s difficult to summarise the most famous dishes in a top 10, but we hope you enjoy the selection.

1.Fish and Chips

Without doubt, this is the most famous dish. If you walk through any English city, you will surely come across the classic fast-food places serving this food. Simple, rich, nutritious and cheap if you want to travel to England on a low-cost plan.

It consists of battered fish (mainly hake or cod) with fried potatoes seasoned with salt and vinegar.

2.Yorkshire Pudding

It is a baked dough made from flour, eggs and milk. It is quite a wildcard recipe.  It resembles bread, but with the soft silky texture of a sweet bun. It is usually accompanied by the famous roast beef but you can use it to replace bread at any meal.

3.English Breakfast

The most famous breakfast in the world, but this doesn’t mean that this dish is eaten daily. It consists of one or two fried eggs, bacon, mushrooms, sausages, tomato and toast. Sometimes beans and a black pudding are added. A bomb of calories but a sea of rich flavours.

4.Sunday Roast

Number four is the most popular typical English food. It’s a dish that usually prepared on Sunday’s and known as a Sunday lunch or a Sunday roast. It’s made up of roast beef, potatoes, all accompanied by Yorkshire puddings and vegetables.

5.Cornish Pasties

Marking one of the most delicious empanadas but in an English style. The dough is filled with meat, potatoes and vegetables. It’s a dish that comes from the county of Cornwall.

6.Apple Crumble

Open your mouth to one of the traditional English confectionaries. It’s a sweet apple pie baked with flour, butter and sugar. It’s usually served accompanied by cream or custard.

7.Custard

We continue the top 10 recipes of typical English food with this exquisite heavy cream with a powerful vanilla flavour, which is quite similar to cream. It is served with other desserts or even as an ingredient or prepare other ones.

8.Jacket Potato

If you are going to do an academic trip to England for a year, you will probably eat this dish a lot. It is simple and versatile. It’s a potato, baked in the oven so the skin is crispy and the inside is tender and then it is served with margarine or butter and can be filled with cheese, coleslaw. Ham, tuna and mayonnaise…

9.Shepherd’s Pie

With this special dish, we have reached number 9 in our top 10 of traditional English recipes. It’s similar to lasagne. It consists of a base made with fried mince meat with vegetables, then topped with a layer of mashed potatoes and cheese, and then baked. If it’s made with beef, it’s called cottage pie, if it’d made with fish, it’s called Fisherman’s pie.

10.Welsh Cakes

We finish our food tour in a very sweet way. These are cakes that come from Wales, they can be served hot or cold and are usually spread with jam, butter or sugar.

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