British Recipes
171 recipes found
British Flapjacks
Traditional British flapjacks with oats, brown sugar, butter, and golden syrup. So simple, so easy, and so delicious.
Proper Shortbread
This is a classic shortbread dough recipe, made with just four ingredients.
Nigella Lawson's One-Step, No-Churn Coffee Ice Cream
This recipe has 4 ingredients, 1 step, no cooking, and no churning, but the espresso coffee ice cream you get will have a creamy, almost buttery smoothness.
Grilled English Peas
This grilled English pea dish a gloriously messy option for a mid-summer evening. It's a meal for intimates, served with big napkins.
Grilled Bananas with Buttered Maple Sauce and English Almond Toffee
S'mores sch'mores. This is my go to grill dessert. Quick, easy and delightful. I have a friend who gives us a wonderful box of English Almond Toffee each year. I like to crumble it and use it as a topping for lots of desserts.
Scotch Broth with Kale
Here is a fairly basic recipe for stew, a low-and-slow variety that calls for simmering lamb (though you could use beef) with barley and root vegetables, then adding some kale at the end so that it doesn’t entirely collapse. It’s a simple equation that takes in whatever ingredients you have on hand. Start with meat, sturdy root vegetables (potatoes, sweet potatoes, turnips, rutabaga, parsnip, carrots) and grains (barley, wheat berries, farro), add water and simmer away. Then add kale, cabbage, spinach or chard. Dinner!
Chopped Eggs on English Muffins with Asparagus and Cheese Sauce
This is a dish I make for my family or friends for brunch, particularly at Easter time. It's also a filling, inexpensive "breakfast for supper" dish and is a great way to use up extra eggs.
Easy Christmas Pudding (Without the Rum)
Strawberry Sorbet From The River Café
The iconic Genius Recipe that started it all, the River Café's strawberry sorbet is no-churn magic! Lemon, sugar, and berries are all it takes for the best sorbet of your life.
English Scones
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Dinner Tonight: Bangers and Mash with Onion Gravy Recipe
Bangers and mash sounds like a relatively simple, two-ingredient dish, but there's actually a third, equally important component that doesn't get main billing: onion gravy, the glue that holds this meal together.
Lemon Posset
This Lemon Posset recipe is a wonder of science. It's the perfect thing for anyone who harbors a weakness for this sort of milky, comforting, nursery-food.
Fergus Henderson’s Trotter Gear
Trotter gear? The British chef Fergus Henderson calls it that – an unctuous and shockingly delicious jellied broth made from pigs’ feet, vegetables and Madeira that imparts an intensely flavorful, lip-sticking quality to any stew or soup to which it is added. He gave The Times the recipe in 2009. It is project cooking at its most exciting and slightly ridiculous – a four- or five-hour process that yields 6 or so cups of glory to punch up any recipe for beans that you have on hand, elevate a beef-and-Guinness pie to extraordinary heights, make fantastic an otherwise benign casserole of baked chicken thighs. Friends and family will ask: What’s the secret ingredient? Say nothing until well after all the plates are cleared.
Spiced Crumbed Mackerel with Smoked Paprika
Simplest Sticky Toffee Pudding
Mackerel With Tarragon
Fish Kebabs With Pastis Mayonnaise
Roast Goose With Apple and Prunes
Giant Yorkshire Pudding
Classic Yorkshire pudding is the combination of a few humble ingredients—eggs, milk and flour—bolstered by the savory drippings from a large beef roast. The recipe is simple, and relies upon just a few ingredients whisked together in a bowl then baked at a high temperature to achieve puffy, golden-brown perfection. (Yorkshire pudding also happens to serve as a perfect accompaniment to said roast.) If you don’t have roast drippings, or run short on them, or are serving vegetarians, the recipe can also be prepared using butter instead.
Banoffee Pie
With generous layers of dulce de leche, bananas and whipped cream, this dazzling pie is not for the faint of heart. The banoffee or banoffi pie, a mash-up of banana and toffee, was created in 1971 by the chef Ian Dowding and Nigel MacKenzie, the owner of the Hungry Monk, a now-closed restaurant in Sussex, England. The original recipe called for a traditional pie crust, homemade dulce de leche and coffee-flavored whipped cream, but we’ve simplified it for the home cook by using a graham cracker crust, store-bought dulce de leche and plain whipped cream. If you like, you could add a teaspoon of instant coffee granules to the whipped cream.
Guinness Pie
Beef in dark, silky gravy composed of fat and reduced stout, flecked with tender vegetables, covered in pastry: This is a dish that delivers good cheer and contentment in equal measure. We built it out of advice and instruction from the British chefs Jamie Oliver (the stew) and Fergus Henderson (the pastry). Eating it — salty and rich, buttoned with sweetness — will occasion thoughts of a coming walk or a nap on the couch with the dog. You’ll want some red wine to drink. It's awesome.
Summer Pudding With Blackberries and Peaches
Constructed from layers of soft, spongy sliced bread and tons of juicy, just-cooked fruit, this British dessert gets an update with a layer of barely sweetened whipped cream. It is the best thing since, well, sliced bread. Think of it as somewhere between a layer cake (where you don’t have to bake any cake) and a tiramisù (where the coffee and chocolate is replaced by burst berries and juicy peaches). While the assembly should be a relaxed, messy affair, just be sure to adequately soak the bread so it reads as custardy, not dry.
Cherries Jubilee
Although this classic recipe was named in honor of Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee in 1897, the method of sautéing cherries with butter, sugar and a splash of Cognac or kirsch probably predates those festivities. Flambéing the mixture helps cook off some of the alcohol and singes the cherries, adding a gentle caramelized note. But you can skip that step and just add an extra 2 minutes to the simmering in Step 5 after adding the Cognac. Serve this warm over ice cream, pound cake or both.
No-Bake Butterscotch Custards
Based on a traditional British pudding called posset, these ultrasilky custards set without the need for cornstarch, eggs or gelatin. (The acidity in the crème fraîche and brown sugar helps do that instead.) A dash of molasses is stirred in for complexity and to accentuate the bitterness of the brown sugar. But for a sweeter and more traditionally butterscotch flavor, you can leave it out.