🥧 Great British Food – Top 5 Traditional Dishes | ESL/ESOL Listening Practice | English Task

Great British food. You can find all kinds of international foods in the UK today, but most pubs still serve traditional British dishes. Some people cook them at home too. Here are the top five favourites according to a survey by UK Taste. One, roast dinner. Roast dinner is the classic British Sunday lunch. The most popular meat is roast beef, and this is usually served with Yorkshire pudding, a baked mixture of flour, milk and eggs. You usually eat roast dinner with roast or mashed potatoes, boiled vegetables and gravy, juices from the meat made into a sauce. Two, fish and chips. This is the original British takeaway food. It's fresh fish fried in batter. A mixture of flour and milk, with chips made from thick cut potatoes. You usually put salt and vinegar on the chips. Some people are fans of mushy peas too, which is a kind of mash made from dried peas. Three, meat pies. A traditional British pie has pastry on the top and sometimes on the bottom too. To make steak and kidney pie, for example, you cut beef and kidney into pieces and cook them slowly in gravy. Then you cover this with pastry and bake it in the oven. Other popular pies have mashed potato on the top instead of pastry. These include shepherd's pie made with minced lamb and fish pie made with different types of fish in a creamy sauce. Four, cooked breakfast. The traditional full English breakfast is bacon, eggs, sausages, tomatoes, baked beans and fried bread. It's quite heavy, so people don't often eat it at home, except maybe at the weekend. It's popular in some cafes, for example, on motorways or close to places where people work manual jobs. Five, dessert. British people love sweet foods too, of course. A big favourite is apple pie and custard. The pie is made from sweet pastry filled with apples and spices, and the custard is a sweet sauce made from eggs, milk and sugar that is served warm. Another popular dessert is sticky toffee pudding, which is a soft cake made with dried fruit called dates and covered in a sweet sauce, often eaten with a custard or ice cream. Trifle is served on special occasions. It's made of fruit, such as strawberries and raspberries, and pieces of sponge cake covered in custard and cream.