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The Sunday Roast
Roast joints, Yorkshires and all the trimmings
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10 recipes
Roast Beef & Yorkshire Pudding
The dish that built an empire: rose-pink sirloin with crackling-hot Yorkshires, roasties cooked in dripping, and gravy made in the roasting tin. England’s national dish and the most searched Sunday dinner in Britain.
Serves 6130 min totalInvolved
Roast Chicken with Bread Sauce
A properly roasted free-range bird with burnished skin, served with medieval England’s greatest gift to the dinner table — clove-and-onion bread sauce.
Serves 4105 min totalModerate
Roast Leg of Lamb with Mint Sauce
Studded with garlic and rosemary, roasted to a blush, and cut with sharp, sweet home-made mint sauce — Easter’s essential centrepiece.
Serves 6115 min totalModerate
Roast Pork with Crackling & Apple Sauce
Shattering, bubbled crackling over sweet slow-roasted shoulder, with a sharp Bramley apple sauce to cut the richness. The trick is dry skin, salt, and courage.
Serves 6170 min totalModerate
Honey-Glazed Gammon
Gently simmered gammon finished in the oven with a sticky honey, mustard and clove glaze — glorious hot on Boxing Day and even better cold from the fridge.
Serves 8145 min totalModerate
Roast Goose with Sage & Onion Stuffing
Before turkey there was goose — burnished, rich and generous, with its own lake of precious fat for the best roast potatoes you will ever eat.
Serves 6190 min totalInvolved
Toad in the Hole
Butcher’s sausages sunk into a smoking-hot Yorkshire batter that rises in golden crags around them — served only ever with a lake of onion gravy.
Serves 450 min totalEasy
Perfect Yorkshire Puddings
Four ingredients, three rules: equal volumes, a screaming-hot tin, and never open the door. Crisp-crowned, soft-centred, as they have been since 1737.
Makes 830 min totalEasy
Beef Wellington
Fillet of beef wrapped in mushroom duxelles, cured ham and golden puff pastry — the great celebration centrepiece, back on Britain’s most-cooked list for every special occasion.
Serves 685 min totalInvolved
Lancashire Hotpot
Mill-town fuel turned national treasure: neck of lamb stewed slowly under a crisp golden lid of sliced potatoes, with kidneys for tradition and pickled red cabbage alongside.
Serves 4175 min totalModerate