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14 recipes
Bangers & Mash with Onion Gravy
Our namesake and Britain’s most-loved pub plate: proper butcher’s sausages on cloud-soft mash, drowned in slow-caramelised onion gravy. “Bangers” for the way they burst in the pan — we cook them gently so they never do.
Serves 450 min totalEasy
Fish & Chips
Britain’s national takeaway: cod in a crisp, singing batter with thick-cut chips, salt, vinegar and mushy peas. One of the few dishes spared wartime rationing — morale itself, fried.
Serves 245 min totalModerate
The Ploughman’s Lunch
A wedge of mature cheddar, crusty bread, pickled onions, chutney and an apple — the cold lunch that defined the British pub garden. No cooking, only standards.
Serves 210 min totalEasy
Scotch Eggs
A soft-yolked egg wrapped in seasoned sausagemeat and fried to a deep amber — invented by Fortnum & Mason in 1738 and still the supreme picnic egg.
Makes 440 min totalModerate
Pie, Mash & Liquor
The Cockney sacrament: minced beef pies with mash and “liquor” — a vivid green parsley sauce that has nothing to do with alcohol and everything to do with the East End.
Serves 485 min totalModerate
Chicken Tikka Masala
Officially “a true British national dish”: charred tikka chicken folded into a creamy tomato masala — the curry that out-sells roast dinners and tops UK recipe searches year after year.
Serves 470 min totalModerate
Beef in Ale Casserole
Slow-braised beef with carrots and pearl barley in dark ale — the sort of pot that has been bubbling beside inn fires for three centuries.
Serves 4–6180 min totalEasy
Hunter’s Chicken
Bacon-wrapped chicken baked in sticky barbecue sauce under a blanket of molten cheddar — the pub classic that has never once left Britain’s most-ordered list.
Serves 450 min totalEasy
Gammon, Egg & Chips
A thick gammon steak with a caramelised edge, a properly fried egg and a pile of chips — the pub grill’s eternal trio. Pineapple ring negotiable.
Serves 235 min totalEasy
Liver, Bacon & Onions
Calves’ liver flashed in the pan — never stewed — with crisp bacon, melting onions and proper gravy. The dish that converts liver sceptics, if it’s cooked right.
Serves 235 min totalEasy
Sausage & Bean Casserole
Browned sausages braised with beans, tomatoes and smoked paprika — the slow cooker’s most-searched British supper, four ingredients from a tin and proud of it.
Serves 465 min totalEasy
Scampi & Chips
Sweet langoustine tails in golden breadcrumbs with chips, peas and tartare sauce — the great British pub seafood, unchanged and unimproved since 1974.
Serves 235 min totalEasy
Ham, Egg & Chips
Thick-cut carved ham, two fried eggs and proper chips — the transport-cafe Trinity, proof that three good things need no sauce at all.
Serves 230 min totalEasy
Welsh Rarebit
The thinking person’s cheese on toast — a molten ale-and-mustard cheese sauce poured over toast and grilled until blistered. Add an egg and it becomes a buck rabbit.
Serves 220 min totalEasy