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Beef Wellington with beef tenderloin, mushrooms and prosciutto — UK recipe

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Meat Dishes

Beef Wellington

Beef Wellington (also called filet de bœuf en croûte, or bœuf Wellington in French) is a British dinner-party roast: a center-cut beef tenderloin, seared hard, brushed with Dijon mustard, wrapped in mushroom duxelles and prosciutto, then baked inside all-butter puff pastry. Where the name comes from is unclear: some link it to the Duke of Wellington, others see it as an English version of the French filet en croûte. Sliced at the table, it shows a thin dark crust, a layer of dry duxelles and a rosy center. Plan on about two hours, most of it chilling between stages.

120 min680 kcal6 serves

💪High protein

Eggs Royale (Smoked Salmon Benedict) with eggs, smoked salmon and English muffins — UK recipe

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Breakfast and Brunch

Eggs Royale (Smoked Salmon Benedict)

Eggs Royale is Eggs Benedict made with smoked salmon instead of Canadian bacon or ham: a toasted English muffin topped with cold smoked salmon, a poached egg and hollandaise. It also goes by Eggs Atlantic, Eggs Hemingway and Eggs Montreal. The salmon needs no cooking, so the work is getting three things ready at the same moment: the poached eggs, the warm hollandaise and the toasted muffins. Read the whole recipe before you start.

20 min560 kcal2 serves

💪High protein⚡Quick

Espresso Martini with vodka, coffee liqueur and espresso — UK recipe

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Beverages

Espresso Martini

Vodka, coffee liqueur, and a shot of freshly pulled espresso shaken hard over ice until the outside of the tin frosts over. The foam on top — that pale, creamy layer that holds the coffee beans — comes from the CO₂ in the espresso crema getting trapped during shaking. You can't fake it with instant coffee. The drink was invented in a London bar in the 1980s by Dick Bradsell for a model who asked for something to wake her up and mess her up at the same time.

10 min190 kcal1 serves

🌱Vegan🌾Gluten-free⚡Quick

Fish and Chips with white fish, potato and flour — UK recipe

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Fish and Seafood Dishes

Fish and Chips

Fish and chips is the British takeaway staple of battered white fish, usually cod or haddock, served with thick-cut chips. Both are fried twice: the chips cook through at a lower temperature and crisp up at a higher one, while the fish gets one hot fry in a cold, barely-mixed beer batter.

60 min730 kcal4 serves

💪High protein

Fried Cod with cod fillet, garlic and lemon — UK recipe

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Fish and Seafood Dishes

Fried Cod

Fried cod is a simple and delicious dish made from fresh or defrosted cod fillets. Especially popular in Scandinavian, British and Portuguese cuisines.

65 min225 kcal4 serves

🥑Keto💪High protein🌾Gluten-free

Homemade Apple Cider with apple juice and yeast — UK recipe

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Beverages

Homemade Apple Cider

Homemade apple cider here means the alcoholic kind: a dry, lightly sparkling drink made from fresh apple juice fermented with wine or cider yeast for one to two weeks, then cleared and bottled. It is not the unfermented "cider" sold as juice in the US. The juice alone gives roughly 5 to 6% alcohol, and the 50 g of sugar per litre in this recipe lifts that to about 8 to 9%, so treat it like wine rather than a soft drink. It tastes nothing like the syrupy commercial versions: drier, more complex, with a genuine apple character that varies with the fruit. The process is simple: press or buy the juice, add yeast, wait. The patience is the skill.

30 min120 kcal8 serves

🌱Vegan🌾Gluten-free🌿Vegetarian

Hot Cross Buns with bread flour, yeast and butter — UK recipe

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Flour and Confectionery Products

Hot Cross Buns

Hot cross buns go back to 14th-century England — a monk at St Albans Abbey made spiced, fruit-studded sweet buns with a cross cut into the top and gave them to the poor on Good Friday. The cross meant something then. Now they mean spring, and they still smell extraordinary coming out of the oven. The dough is enriched with butter, eggs, and warm milk; spiced with cinnamon, allspice, and nutmeg; and loaded with plumped currants and orange zest. The cross is piped on with a simple flour paste before baking, then the finished buns get a sticky apricot glaze and an icing cross on top. Eat them warm, split and buttered, with tea.

180 min285 kcal12 serves

🌿Vegetarian

Lembas Bread (Elvish Waybread) with flour, butter and honey — UK recipe

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Flour and Confectionery Products

Lembas Bread (Elvish Waybread)

Lembas is the elvish waybread from Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings — a single piece said to fill the stomach of a grown man. This version is a buttery, slightly sweet shortbread biscuit with warm spice, honey, and cream. It bakes in under 15 minutes and keeps for days in a tin. The X scored into each piece is traditional.

30 min210 kcal14 serves

🌿Vegetarian⚡Quick

Mushroom Wellington with portobello mushrooms, chestnut mushrooms and puff pastry — UK recipe

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Vegetable and Mushroom Dishes

Mushroom Wellington

A log of portobello mushrooms, duxelles, wilted spinach, and caramelized onion wrapped in golden, shattering puff pastry. This is the dish that makes vegan holiday cooking feel genuinely festive rather than compensatory. The key is managing moisture at every stage — mushrooms that are properly dried, spinach that is squeezed out, a filling that is cold when it meets the pastry. Get those things right and the pastry bakes crisp and dry rather than soggy at the base. The scored top, the knife going through the layers, the steam that rises — it's one of those dishes that impresses the table before anyone has even tasted it.

75 min480 kcal6 serves

🌿Vegetarian🌱Vegan

Mushroom, Spring Onion and Chilli Crisp Filo Bake with mixed mushrooms, scallions and chilli crisp — UK recipe

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Vegetable and Mushroom Dishes

Mushroom, Spring Onion and Chilli Crisp Filo Bake

Layers of shattering filo pastry wrapped around a savory mushroom and spring onion filling, every sheet brushed with a mix of melted butter and chilli crisp. The result is somewhere between a Turkish börek and an Asian-inspired bake — deeply golden on top, fragrant with sesame and chilli oil, with the filling still juicy inside. One of those dishes where the technique is simple but the payoff looks and tastes unreasonably good.

55 min295 kcal6 serves

🌿Vegetarian🌶️Spicy

Peach Crumble with peaches, all purpose flour and rolled oats — UK recipe

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Sweet Dishes

Peach Crumble

Juicy peaches under a rough, buttery oat-and-nut topping that shatters when you push a spoon through it. The filling thickens as it bakes, the crumble goes golden, and the whole thing smells like summer in the oven.

55 min340 kcal6 serves

🌿Vegetarian

Rice Pudding with rice, milk and sugar — UK recipe

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Sweet Dishes

Rice Pudding

Rice and milk, slowly simmered until the starch releases and everything turns thick and creamy. One of the oldest comfort foods there is. This stovetop version takes about 40 minutes. Serve warm with a dusting of cinnamon, or cold the next morning straight from the fridge.

45 min280 kcal4 serves

🌿Vegetarian🌾Gluten-free

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