British beef!

Hundreds of classic English, Scottish and Welsh recipes, all tested and photographed with step-by-step instructions, with full details of all ingredients. British cuisine is the specific set of cooking traditions and practices associated with the British Isles. Historically, British cuisine has meant "unfussy dishes made with quality local ingredients, matched with simple sauces to accentuate flavour, rather than disguise it". However, British cuisine has absorbed the cultural influences of the colonial era and post-war immigration, producing hybrid dishes, such as the Anglo-Indian chicken tikka masala, often claimed as "Britain's true national dish". Occasionally vilified as "unimaginative and heavy", British cuisine has been judged by the full breakfast, fish and chips and the Sunday roast.

Typical British dishes have for several centuries been based around a nutritious template - commonly known as "meat and two veg" - which normally consists of simply roasted, grilled or boiled meat (most commonly beef, pork or lamb) a green vegetable (steamed or boiled) and a root vegetable (usually a form of boiled potatoes, carrots or turnip).

British cuisine can be separated into national and regional variants, e.g. English, Scottish and Welsh cuisine or Yorkshire cuisine and Cornish cuisine, each of which have developed their own regional or local dishes, many of which are geographically indicated foods such as Cheshire cheese, the Yorkshire pudding, Arbroath Smokie and the Cornish Pasty.

Try to source local ingredients for a truly authentic dish. Markets are a wonderful source. It you are local to London, give Borough Market a try, you will not be disappointed.

Where to buy?

We have an ever-growing list of specialist ingredient suppliers here.

British cheeses

Take a look at our very comprehensive list of British cheeses, broken down by county.

Protected Designation of Origin

PDO ingredients

PDO stands for 'Protected Designation of Origin'. Under the EU agricultural product quality policy, this "covers agricultural products and foodstuffs which are produced, processed and prepared in a given geographical area using recognised know-how". The following British ingredients are those which are registered as PDO.

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A table of PDO Ingredients; sortable by Country, Name, Product & Type
Country Name Product Type
UK Anglesey Sea Salt / Halen Môn Salt PDO
UK Beacon Fell traditional Lancashire cheese Cheese PDO
UK Bonchester cheese Cheese PDO
UK Buxton blue Cheese PDO
UK Conwy mussels Shellfish PDO
UK Cornish Clotted Cream Cream PDO
UK Dovedale cheese Cheese PDO
UK East Kent Goldings Hop PDO
UK Fal Oyster Shellfish PDO
UK Isle of Man Manx Loaghtan Lamb Lamb PDO
UK Isle of Man Queenies Shellfish PDO
UK Jersey Royal potatoes Potato PDO
UK Lakeland Herdwick Lamb PDO
UK Lough Neagh Pollan Fish PDO
UK Orkney beef Beef PDO
UK Orkney lamb Lamb PDO
UK Shetland lamb Lamb PDO
UK Single Gloucester Cheese PDO
UK Staffordshire Cheese Cheese PDO
UK Swaledale cheese Cheese PDO
UK Swaledale ewes´ cheese Cheese PDO
UK Welsh Laverbread Seaweed PDO
UK West Country farmhouse Cheddar cheese Cheese PDO
UK White Stilton cheese / Blue Stilton cheese Cheese PDO
UK Yorkshire Forced Rhubarb Rhubarb PDO
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Protected Geographical Indication

PGI ingredients

PGI stands for 'Protected Geographical Indication'. Under the EU agricultural product quality policy, this "covers agricultural products and foodstuffs closely linked to the geographical area. At least one of the stages of production, processing or preparation takes place in the area." The following British ingredients are those which are registered as PGI.

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A table of PGI Ingredients; sortable by Country, Name, Product & Type
Country Name Product Type
UK Armagh Bramley Apples Apple PGI
UK Carmarthen Ham Ham PGI
UK Cornish pasty Pasty PGI
UK Cornish sardines Sardine PGI
UK Dorset Blue Vinney Cheese PGI
UK Exmoor Blue Cheese PGI
UK Fenland Celery Celery PGI
UK London Cure Smoked Salmon Salmon PGI
UK Lough Neagh Eel Eel PGI
UK Melton Mowbray Pork Pie Pork Pie PGI
UK New Season Comber Potato / Comber Earlies Potato PGI
UK Newmarket Sausage Sausage PGI
UK Orkney Scottish Island Cheddar Cheese PGI
UK Pembrokeshire Earlies Potato PGI
UK Scotch Beef Beef PGI
UK Scotch Lamb Lamb PGI
UK Scottish Farmed Salmon Salmon PGI
UK Scottish Wild Salmon Salmon PGI
UK Stornoway Black Pudding Sausage PGI
UK Teviotdale Cheese PGI
UK Traditional Ayrshire Dunlop Cheese PGI
UK Traditional Cumberland Sausage Sausage PGI
UK Traditional Grimsby smoked fish Fish PGI
UK Traditional Welsh Caerphilly/Traditional Welsh Caerffili Cheese PGI
UK Vale of Evesham Asparagus Asparagus PGI
UK Welsh Beef Beef PGI
UK Welsh Lamb Lamb PGI
UK West Country Beef Beef PGI
UK West Country Lamb Lamb PGI
UK West Wales Coracle Caught Salmon Salmon PGI
UK West Wales Coracle Caught Sewin Sea Trout PGI
UK Whitstable Oysters Oyster PGI
UK Yorkshire Wensleydale Cheese PGI
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Traditional Speciality Guaranteed

TSG ingredients

TSG stands for ‘Traditional Speciality Guaranteed’. It "highlights traditional character, either in the composition or means of production". The following British ingredients are those which are registered as TSG.

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A table of TSG Ingredients; sortable by Country, Name, Product & Type
Country Name Product Type
UK Traditional Bramley Apple Pie Filling Pie filling TSG
UK Traditional Farmfresh Turkey Turkey TSG
UK Traditionally Farmed Gloucestershire Old Spot Pork Pork TSG
UK Traditionally reared pedigree Welsh pork Pork TSG
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English PDO and PGI Wines

Protected designation of origin wines approved in 2011 UKVA website


BRITISH RECIPES

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