I was born in the early fifties. Our family was not well-off, so we always looked forward to our roast dinner on Sunday (which my mother would slave over, while my Dad dug veg in the garden - ohhh, fresh veg, straight from the soil, nothing like it). The meat was different each week (lamb quite often, chicken rarely) and my Mum would concoct weekday meals out of the left-overs (supplementing them as necessary). Obviously, shepherd's pie. We were happy during the week, but Sunday was a physical expression of contentment. The four of us would sit round the table and listen to Round The Horne, or Family Favourites. It drew our family closer together. Then an afternoon walk. Baked potatoes under an open grate later, in winter, or salad from the garden in summer. Hmm. Feeling a little notalgic.
I agree with fresh veg from the soil, if only we could all do that. Many years back I had a workshop on a potato farm and scooped up the potatoes as they were harvested I was given some literally just plucked from the soil. To this day I would say they were the best potatoes I have ever tasted.
We inherited this in Australia, but lamb's more traditional than beef. Also, people may mock British food, but Britain was so renowned for its roasting chefs that the French kings used to hire them...
And pork of course. Big slabs of roast pork. Been to a few pubs here that do Sunday roasts with all the trimmings. $29 for a roast , soft drink and a desert!
I genuinely love British cuisine. It's so wholesome and unpretentious! It gets such an undeserved bad reputation because it's not particularly flamboyant but there are a lot of dishes that are packed with flavour and nutritional value. You just have to enjoy it for what it is
I love a Sunday roast after a nice long walk with friends, hopefully with crisp weather. Build up a famish and thirst and head to a local pub for a roast and pint. Great way to see the UK.
Okay honestly... To me, that sounds like a lovely "slogan" to summarize and explain the UK. 🙂 God, I miss the UK. Been there countless times throughout my life and I regret to this day, despite Brexit, that I never fulfilled my plans to move there back when I still easily could have.
We had that custom here in New England when I was growing up too. Sunday meant church in your best clothes then Sunday Dinner afterwards. Often a roast but no Yorkshire pudding just potatoes and carrots or green beans. Also no stores were open as we had "blue laws" so everyone was at home. How rimes have changed
@terencebates6808 that's a nonsense statement. The idea that something is relatively new historically doesn't prevent it being culturally pervasive. Nothing wrong with sentiment.
Nah not all the leftovers. Cut the left over roast meat in to cubes, mix into mash potatoes with a few tablespoons of spoons of left over gravy and fry in dripping. Crusty both sides. Then mix the crush into the potato again before serving . A lovely hash. Mmmmmmmmm.
@@cleanerben9636 sometimes i just make yorkshire puddings and gravy, put horseradish sauce in it and drink the gravy out of the yorkshire puddings before eating them. As a standalone meal. I bloody love yorkshire puddings
I’m Canadian and my family would have Sunday rose quite often. When I discover Yorkshire pudding, it was a game changer. My recipe for Yorkshire pudding was straight out of a British cookbook and it always said to use the drippings from the roast. I couldn’t do that because we saved the drippings to make the gravy, so we just use vegetable oil in the bottom of the pan instead. This video is making me wish I was having Sunday roast tomorrow.
I'm also Canadian and grew up with a Sunday roast every week! I still make a roast almost nearly every Sunday for myself and friends (except in summer, too hot and humid for a roast) -- and when I do, I still make it the way my grandmother did: beef, Yorkshire pudding, roasted potatoes, roasted parsnips, carrots, peas, Brussels sprouts, mashed turnip and lots of gravy.
Yorkshire pudding with gravy and mint sauce is devine, sage and onion stuffing too. I have a giant Yorkshire pudding the size of a plate and fill it with everything sometimes. I have one kid who doesn't like them so it's always more for me :-)
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Sunday roast is absolutely crucial to our entire culture. We're not a very touchy feely people and this gives us a non-embarrassing excuse to get together each week, and it's delicious. Don't skimp on the gravy though.
Mom’s standing rib roast, mashed potatoes,peas,carrots and lots of Yorkshire puddings all smothered in endless amounts of gravy with a big dollop of extra hot horseradish! Then we watched The Wonderful World of Disney, what a perfect Sunday dinner! Miss you mom!
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The one element in a Sunday roast that's subject to variation is the vegetable served with it. Personal favorites: peas and pearl onions, honey-roasted parsnips, cauliflower florets with cheddar cheese sauce.
This is also a tradition here in Germany. We call it "Sonntagsbraten" (literally: Sunday roast). But there are different types of roast and other side dishes like dumplings (no Yorkshire pudding though).
And the Sonntagsbraten in Germany can also be any other kind of meet and it is usually braised to make to meat so soft that it falls off the bone or can be pulled apart.
@@franktechmaniac7488 UK roasts aren't just Beef, it's just the most common one, you can do Chicken (usually without yorkshire pudding normally that's for Beef, but can add Cauliflower Cheese instead), Pork with Sage, Sausage and Onion Stuffing and Apple Sauce or the most expensive and probably the tastiest Lamb shoulder with mint sauce and cabbage.
we also used to have it when i was growing up in california - my dad was a butcher and my mum was italian - i now live in london - it does not happen very often at my house now but i love it when it does.
In São Paulo, Brazil, and some others cities around the country, there is specific dish for each day of the week. Off couse, you have more options, but you know that you will find that dish in that day. For e xemplo, Wednesday and saturday is "feijoada" (black beans with salted meats and sausages). Al the best!
A roast dinner (or is it lunch, I can never be sure) was the one meal I craved and missed when I left home in the early 1990s. I haven’t eaten meat for over 20 years, but I still love a roast dinner at my sister’s, with Quorn Roast, all the vegetables, Yorkshire pudding and a jug of vegetable gravy and the obligatory mint sauce. One of the most comforting and delicious meals ever, and I am always starving when it is cooking, the food aromas awaken my appetite, and always ready to eat when it is placed on the table. People whinge and criticise British cuisine, but you can’t beat a good roast dinner.
If it's a question of class, according to Great British Mag: This eventually evolved into the lower classes calling their midday meal “dinner”..., while the upper classes called their midday meal “lunch” If it's a question of time: "brunch" is a meal sometime between breakfast and lunch, then should "linner" be the meal sometime between lunch and dinner? 0:43 and the video description say it was filmed at Clapton Country Club in London, UK. Clapton Country Club's site says: SUNDAY ROAST CLUB *Nut Loaf (Vegan/GF)* Served with heritage carrots, parsnips, roasted potatoes, creamed leeks (oat cream), seasonal greens, Yorkshire pudding for vegetarians (optional) & onion gravy. *Roast Butternut Squash with Pomegranate and Quinoa Stuffing (Vegan/GF)* Served with heritage carrots, parsnips, creamed leeks (oat cream), seasonal greens, roasted potatoes, yorkshire pudding for vegetarians (optional) & onion gravy. *Wild Mushroom & Truffle Wellington (Vegan)* Our famous nut roast encased in golden pastry. Served with Heritage roast potatoes, seasonal vegetables & Optional Yorkshire Pudding. (Vegan)
In Australia it doesn’t have to be a Sunday for a roast dinner. Usually an autumn/ winter dish, as with our climate spring and summer are BBQ and salad time !
Even we here in Germany adopted the Roast. Well, we had our "Sonntagsbraten", which is a literally translation, but we added the Yorkies here for us. Our Sonntagsbraten was more often pork than beef. Last sunday i made a turkey-version.
Tourists love to eat this food when they come to UK, it's usually one of their trip highlights. The gravy is the keystone that makes a great roast not brown tasteless water which some places dish out.
0:43 and the video description say it was filmed at Clapton Country Club in London, UK. Clapton Country Club's site says: SUNDAY ROAST CLUB *Free-Range Norfolk Roast Chicken* w. lemon, rosemary and thyme infusion, served with heritage carrots, parsnips, roasted potatoes, creamed leeks, seasonal greens, yorkshire pudding & meat stock gravy. £23.80 *Free-Range Scottish Prime Aberdeen grass fed Rib-Eye Roasted Beef* Served with heritage carrots, parsnips, roasted potatoes, creamed leeks, seasonal greens, yorkshire pudding & meat stock gravy. £28.80 *Free-Range Roast Redhill Farm award winning Pork Belly* w. Apple & Thyme Sauce, served with heritage carrots, parsnips, roasted potatoes, creamed leeks, seasonal greens, Yorkshire pudding & meat stock gravy. £25.80 *Nut Loaf (Vegan/GF)* Served with heritage carrots, parsnips, roasted potatoes, creamed leeks (oat cream), seasonal greens, Yorkshire pudding for vegetarians (optional) & onion gravy. £22.80 *Roast Butternut Squash with Pomegranate and Quinoa Stuffing (Vegan/GF)* Served with heritage carrots, parsnips, creamed leeks (oat cream), seasonal greens, roasted potatoes, yorkshire pudding for vegetarians (optional) & onion gravy. £22.80 *Wild Mushroom & Truffle Wellington (Vegan)* Our famous nut roast encased in golden pastry. Served with Heritage roast potatoes, seasonal vegetables & Optional Yorkshire Pudding. (Vegan) £22.80 *All our roasts are available in Child Portions* £12
Up until fairly recently, pubs had very specific opening hours in England (not sure on other parts of UK). When I was a kid, my Dad would go down the pub from 12-2 on a Sunday, few pints and a game of cards/domino's with friends, then home for Sunday roast for 2:30/3 ish. Some family time, and then back down the pub on Sunday evening for a few more beers :) Now pubs are open all day Sunday people tend to go out for a roast I think?
My late mother was English descent and we used to have Roast Beef prepared this way many Sunday nights. I had no idea this was a regular Sunday dinner occasion of Brits, I figured most Americans were eating like we were. Now I see this was because of my Mom's English background. She also used to prepare Pasties on cold days, which I believe came from Wales originally.
We are Americans, mostly of Scandinavian descent. We had roast beef every Sunday mid-day like clockwork. My Mother would slow cook the roast for hours for about a 2pm meal after church. My Dad was a huge fan of roast beef, mashed potatoes and gravy.
I don't think Britain deserves its rep for bad food. I would argue that British cuisine is the best in Northern Europe. You just have to get over the fact that not everything has to be smothered in ghost chilies
Always lived here in Britain and I’m pakistani. I have an aunt that makes food so spicy its inedible even to her own daughters 😂 so i agree, spicy does NOT mean better! I’d argue too much spice can make a dish lose flavour. You shouldn’t be excessive.
The myth about British food being bad was born out of US servicemen stationed here during WW2 when rationing was in place. Traditional British dishes stand up well against any European cuisine. Try a proper shepherd's pie or a Cumberland sausage ring with English mustard.
To go to Mass in one of your ancient chapels or cathedrals on a crisp morning, stroll home around leafy lanes and parks, and then have a hearty meal with family on a day of Rest away from the business of the week......best of British culture and tradition. Strong families make strong nations. The warmest memories are those when you were young and around the table with your young parents.
As American I always heard of yorkshire pudding but never had it. As a k8d we had beef roast wit onions, , mashed potatoes, gravy, a veg, and Dad had to have beef noodles too. The folowing Sunday was Chicken, fried or usually roasted. I found a recipe for the yorkshire puddimg when I was 40 and made my own. Love it. I used beef drippings to make it. Roast beef on Sunday is still my favorite,but at 74 and alone I don't get to make it as often.
I meet an English father and daughter when travelling in China a few years ago. I ended up visiting them in England for a couple of weeks. On both Sundays I was there they cooked a roast, pretty sure it was lamb. No Yorkshire pudding though (it does look yummy) I said to them we should add roasted pumpkin which to my surprise they’d never had. Obviously pumpkin isn’t big in the UK
We often have mashed roast swede its quite similar, I think that's why we don't eat very much pumpkin with our roast dinners, often people like turnips, potatoes, greens/cabbage, green beans, roast or mashed carrot, mushrooms. Just about every type of veg we have a way of roasting or steaming and mashing to have with our roast dinners.
My family does Sunday roast here in the US. My dad is Dutch and Indonesian. I went to my uncles house on a Sunday and he makes the roast too. We usually have French bread on the side but I’d love to try a Yorkshire pudding. I was wondering what that was. My husbands Dutch family does Groente/green soup with meatballs or chicken sundays. We eat these meals in between church services. It’s sad British food gets “roasted” for being bland bc this looks amazing and so does the full English breakfast.
As if to prove my point about food culture served to the poster above... Dutch and Indonesian, some of the best chefs producing Indonesian food are located in Amsterdam. I am the owner of the restaurant featured in this video. We operate weddings and one couple had a connection to Malaysia and so I said we can do an Indonesian/South East Asian menu. Now I had some experience of this as I had dated a girl in may youth for 7 years. Her mother was Malaysian, she tough me to cook Indonesian food, Rendangs/Sambal sauces/Satay/Nasi Goreng etc To this day it is my favourite food. We absolutely nailed the food for the wedding impressing her family over from Malaysia.
A roast dinner or “Sunday roast”, though usually served on a Sunday, can be served on any day of the week. Why limit it to just Sunday? Also, why is stuffing absent from this video? It’s such a staple
Strangely some of the best British quisine has been kept alive in Kolkata, India former capital of Raj. Like Fish fry, rezella, white stew, mutton cutlets
We should really go back to a sunday roast and a lot less meat during the week. That way one would also much more apprechiate a good meat meal. The British sunday roast is very tasty, but I really need some non-fatty vegetables with that. Otherwise it would be too heavy for me. That mushroom pastry looked really delicious, too.
The bakers in olden days did not bake bread on a sunday but the ovens would still be warm or hot from baking the night before. So familys used to put a tray of meat and veg into the ovens and go to church.
I grew up having a prime rib roast with Yorkshire pudding at Christmas with my family, and my mum loves a Sunday roast chicken. I finally went to the UK this spring and got a Sunday roast at a gorgeous pub in Hampstead Village - absolutely delicious and weirdly I think my favourite parts were the cabbage and the cauliflower cheese. I do love Yorkies but they're never as good at a restaurant as they are at home.
Sunday roasts in NZ mostly lamb with mint sauce roast potatoes, pumpkin and kumera, peas, carrots and a jug of gravy, desert was fruit icecream or custard. My mum made the best Sunday roast. My kids do the same as I did for them and I get to sit back and enjoy it. Yum.
People in this video talk about the taste of the Yorkshire pudding as if they ate it without gravy. But the point of Yorkshire pud is that it is meant to be eaten with loads of gravy because it stretched out a meal and filled you up if you could not afford a lot of meat.
I think people have different ways of eating most things. I remember in my youth a mate of mine, we used to go for breakfast most mornings for a fry up. He always used to eat everything clear the plate and leave the sausage till last. When I saw this I often would distract him and stick my fork in his sausage and nick it ! It became a standard form of entertainment at breakfast!
Hey! That rub for the roast is like my family’s seasonings for their beef roast. And we’re mostly German! We also roast potatoes, but cube them. I like this video.
We have some of the best Vegan roasts on offer and many meat eaters select this. I am the owner of this place, I took the view as a Vegetarian of some 30+ years that if we were to do Vegetarian/Vegan options for a Sunday roast they had to be good, I've lost count of the number of times where I have been for a roast and been disappointed in the vegan/Vegetarian offerings.
0:43 and the video description say it was filmed at Clapton Country Club in London, UK. Clapton Country Club's site says: SUNDAY ROAST CLUB *Nut Loaf (Vegan/GF)* Served with heritage carrots, parsnips, roasted potatoes, creamed leeks (oat cream), seasonal greens, Yorkshire pudding for vegetarians (optional) & onion gravy. *Roast Butternut Squash with Pomegranate and Quinoa Stuffing (Vegan/GF)* Served with heritage carrots, parsnips, creamed leeks (oat cream), seasonal greens, roasted potatoes, yorkshire pudding for vegetarians (optional) & onion gravy. *Wild Mushroom & Truffle Wellington (Vegan)* Our famous nut roast encased in golden pastry. Served with Heritage roast potatoes, seasonal vegetables & Optional Yorkshire Pudding. (Vegan) *All our roasts are available in Child Portions*
I'm Polish who have been living in UK for over 20 years; Sunday Roast is what saves British cuisine - but you do have to pick a right place for a nice experience: some pubs (like whetherspoon) use frozen food which ruins the very idea
Come on. There’s many things they do well. Puddings. Other meat dishes. Caramelised Brussels sprouts. Its like saying the only thing saving Polish cuisine is the Pierogi.
wouldn't necessarily say its what saves British cuisine, but it is along with Fish and chips at the core of our food culture. I would agree with you about picking the right place and frozen food, there are too many poor eating places serving up dross in all cuisine not just 'British'.
Kind of surprised that the plates were so piled high with food. I like a roast lunch on a Sunday as much as anyone else, but please, either get larger plates or indulge in seconds.
0:43 and the video description say it was filmed at Clapton Country Club in London, UK. Clapton Country Club's site says: SUNDAY ROAST CLUB *Nut Loaf (Vegan/GF)* Served with heritage carrots, parsnips, roasted potatoes, creamed leeks (oat cream), seasonal greens, Yorkshire pudding for vegetarians (optional) & onion gravy. *Roast Butternut Squash with Pomegranate and Quinoa Stuffing (Vegan/GF)* Served with heritage carrots, parsnips, creamed leeks (oat cream), seasonal greens, roasted potatoes, yorkshire pudding for vegetarians (optional) & onion gravy. *Wild Mushroom & Truffle Wellington (Vegan)* Our famous nut roast encased in golden pastry. Served with Heritage roast potatoes, seasonal vegetables & Optional Yorkshire Pudding. (Vegan)
Boston boy here.......I recall that some of the older better hotels had this way back when. Also an afternoon tea at the Ritz Carlton. Also cod cakes and fries on Fridays.
This is a kind of authentic British traditional cuisine but why everybody said about chicken tikka or something from abroad, this kind of meal is so appetizing for me
Soy española, y estuve recientemente en Londres. Probé el fish and chips, pero no el Sunday roast en algún pub. Tendré que volver a Londres sólo para probarlo 😋
I know it's less traditional but I love roast lamb with mint sauce for Sunday lunch. I agree with other posters about the size of the plates are too small in that video. Great to see Yorkshire puddings on DW
Im a brit who doesn't get particularly excited about a sunday roast but they are definitely nostalgic and nutrionally they are about as dense as it gets. Rather than being fancy or particularly flavoursome they are really more about family/community. A roast is a huge amount of effort tbh, ao part of the appeal is getting in the kitchen with loved ones and making it. Really lovely once in a while, but definitely overrated by many IMO just in the same way- presumably- that fried chicken or lasagne is
It is no doubt a comfort food and one done well with friends and family brings feel good . I own this place and a big part of the joy of Sundays here is seeing that buzz of feel good, we add to the ambience with live Jazz. Last Sunday we had 400 people come through, that tells you a lot of what this is about. It is a much visited necessity in peoples lives, wherever they are from. Our clientele are literally from the world over, one regular visitor is a Vietnamese family that own a restaurant in London, they love the Sundays here and that very much sums up what this is about.
I was born in the early fifties. Our family was not well-off, so we always looked forward to our roast dinner on Sunday (which my mother would slave over, while my Dad dug veg in the garden - ohhh, fresh veg, straight from the soil, nothing like it). The meat was different each week (lamb quite often, chicken rarely) and my Mum would concoct weekday meals out of the left-overs (supplementing them as necessary). Obviously, shepherd's pie. We were happy during the week, but Sunday was a physical expression of contentment. The four of us would sit round the table and listen to Round The Horne, or Family Favourites. It drew our family closer together. Then an afternoon walk. Baked potatoes under an open grate later, in winter, or salad from the garden in summer. Hmm. Feeling a little notalgic.
I agree with fresh veg from the soil, if only we could all do that. Many years back I had a workshop on a potato farm and scooped up the potatoes as they were harvested I was given some literally just plucked from the soil. To this day I would say they were the best potatoes I have ever tasted.
Lovely. Nothing like a good dinner to bring the family together. ❤
Back then lead was used in fuels as a catalyst and the emissions would settle on the soil the plants grow from. Good good would taste sweet.
Those were the days, lost to history 😊
Pretty much our routine too. Round the Horne a MUST ❤
This is as comfort food to brits as fried chicken, mashed potatoes and collard greens for us Americans. Just simply wholesome.
Black American by any chance?
@@guysalzmann9302you're a clown and a person that likes there own comment....get a life pal..
I would say at most 25-30% of Americans have had collard greens...
@@tipsysmichigander6483Cabbage in the UK.
@@guysalzmann9302 gotta love slight innuendo of racism! People of all colors enjoy comfort food.
We inherited this in Australia, but lamb's more traditional than beef. Also, people may mock British food, but Britain was so renowned for its roasting chefs that the French kings used to hire them...
And pork of course. Big slabs of roast pork. Been to a few pubs here that do Sunday roasts with all the trimmings. $29 for a roast , soft drink and a desert!
"French kings used to hire them" which one ? 🤨
In Australia we can have Sunday Roast on any day/night.
Australia has no identity of its own so its obviously going to be British staples mostly, but Yorkshire puddings is rare here however.
@@SmellsLikeNirvannaWhat a bizarre comment
I genuinely love British cuisine. It's so wholesome and unpretentious! It gets such an undeserved bad reputation because it's not particularly flamboyant but there are a lot of dishes that are packed with flavour and nutritional value. You just have to enjoy it for what it is
True. Brits have the best dishes from beef, biscuits, one of the most diverse cheese plates, whisky, tea ceremony, full english breakfast.
@@EA-ck4so whisky
That's not the reason for the bad reputation. You just made that up
@@tingispingis What's the reason?
@@tingispingis Always someone like you, unable to answer. Pathetic. It's been 3 days, explain.
I love a Sunday roast after a nice long walk with friends, hopefully with crisp weather. Build up a famish and thirst and head to a local pub for a roast and pint. Great way to see the UK.
Okay honestly... To me, that sounds like a lovely "slogan" to summarize and explain the UK. 🙂
God, I miss the UK. Been there countless times throughout my life and I regret to this day, despite Brexit, that I never fulfilled my plans to move there back when I still easily could have.
@@Michael.Blackwood Never too late mate!
@@lansvale28 True, but much more complicated now, in comparison to back then when Britain was still in the EU.
@@Michael.Blackwood Unfortunately true. Let’s hope that changes and things return to normal again.
I agree with ❤😊
Britain may not be the country of the most spices but we are the country of many herbs
Actually, with so many British citizens of Indian ancestry, I'd say it _is_ the country in Europe with the most spices!
It’s not just a meal for Brits, it’s traditional and woven into British society. Sunday roast at home with the family. It’s how our country was built.
its a nice sentiment, but our country was 'built' many thousands of years before Sunday Roast dinner!
We had that custom here in New England when I was growing up too. Sunday meant church in your best clothes then Sunday Dinner afterwards. Often a roast but no Yorkshire pudding just potatoes and carrots or green beans. Also no stores were open as we had "blue laws" so everyone was at home. How rimes have changed
@terencebates6808 that's a nonsense statement. The idea that something is relatively new historically doesn't prevent it being culturally pervasive. Nothing wrong with sentiment.
It is woven in to every society that sprung from Britain. The southern USA especially.
Everyone bangs on about the spuds and yorkies, but for me, a good parsnip makes the roast.
I've never eaten a parsnip. What does it taste like?
@@mwrkhan It's a root vegetable so similar to a carrot but more earthy.
@@mwrkhan texture of a carrot and flavour of a turnip, I reckon.
Yup duck fat roast potatoes and parsnips.
Also can be any meat. Lamb, pork or chicken instead of beef and of course also Turkey or duck or even pheasant
I'm glad the narrator pronounced Yorkshire properly.
You got to mention the following day's bubble and squeak, if you've cooked it at home. All the leftovers in mashed potato pan fried, heavenly.
Not all the leftovers... greens, but cabbage specifically
You can't just add any old veg
Nah not all the leftovers. Cut the left over roast meat in to cubes, mix into mash potatoes with a few tablespoons of spoons of left over gravy and fry in dripping. Crusty both sides. Then mix the crush into the potato again before serving . A lovely hash. Mmmmmmmmm.
One of my favorites.
@@xr6lad That's a Hash...Bubble and squeak is Spud and veg.
@@danielcrafter9349
Yorkshire Pudding with beef
Stuffing with chicken
Apple sauce with pork
Mint sauce with lamb
Yorkshire Pudding with beef - and horseradish.
I know these rules are accurate but we’ll cook yorkshire puddings with all of the above because we’re heathens….that love yorkshire puds!!!
@@nautilusshell4969 And Colemans.
Yorkshire pudding on all dinners
@@cleanerben9636 sometimes i just make yorkshire puddings and gravy, put horseradish sauce in it and drink the gravy out of the yorkshire puddings before eating them. As a standalone meal. I bloody love yorkshire puddings
I’m Canadian and my family would have Sunday rose quite often. When I discover Yorkshire pudding, it was a game changer. My recipe for Yorkshire pudding was straight out of a British cookbook and it always said to use the drippings from the roast. I couldn’t do that because we saved the drippings to make the gravy, so we just use vegetable oil in the bottom of the pan instead.
This video is making me wish I was having Sunday roast tomorrow.
I'm also Canadian and grew up with a Sunday roast every week! I still make a roast almost nearly every Sunday for myself and friends (except in summer, too hot and humid for a roast) -- and when I do, I still make it the way my grandmother did: beef, Yorkshire pudding, roasted potatoes, roasted parsnips, carrots, peas, Brussels sprouts, mashed turnip and lots of gravy.
Yorkshire pudding with gravy and mint sauce is devine, sage and onion stuffing too. I have a giant Yorkshire pudding the size of a plate and fill it with everything sometimes. I have one kid who doesn't like them so it's always more for me :-)
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“Sunday is just around the corner” - slogan of my life
I much rather Friday evenings; Sunday means Monday is ready to pounce!
@@honeytgb Feels a version of 'I Don't Like Mondays' about to burst out!
Sunday roast is absolutely crucial to our entire culture. We're not a very touchy feely people and this gives us a non-embarrassing excuse to get together each week, and it's delicious. Don't skimp on the gravy though.
Mom’s standing rib roast, mashed potatoes,peas,carrots and lots of Yorkshire puddings all smothered in endless amounts of gravy with a big dollop of extra hot horseradish! Then we watched The Wonderful World of Disney, what a perfect Sunday dinner! Miss you mom!
Mom? Who's that?
@@billythedog-309 The OP's mother?
@@Justice4Bob Nobody in Britain has a 'mom'. They have a mam or a mum.
@@billythedog-309You know people have different spellings, right? You may as well say nobody in Spain has a mum because they use "madre" or nobody in Thailand has a mum because they use แม่. Your pedantry is quite 🤣🙄
@@Justice4Bob Don't be such a stupid pillock. l never said that, did l?
I'm always surprised by foreigners who at the beginning think "Roast potatoes and mash potato?!" And after say "I get it!" ❤ from England.
Wow❤ Looks delicious! From Japan 🇯🇵
The one element in a Sunday roast that's subject to variation is the vegetable served with it. Personal favorites: peas and pearl onions, honey-roasted parsnips, cauliflower florets with cheddar cheese sauce.
This is also a tradition here in Germany. We call it "Sonntagsbraten" (literally: Sunday roast). But there are different types of roast and other side dishes like dumplings (no Yorkshire pudding though).
And the Sonntagsbraten in Germany can also be any other kind of meet and it is usually braised to make to meat so soft that it falls off the bone or can be pulled apart.
@@franktechmaniac7488 UK roasts aren't just Beef, it's just the most common one, you can do Chicken (usually without yorkshire pudding normally that's for Beef, but can add Cauliflower Cheese instead), Pork with Sage, Sausage and Onion Stuffing and Apple Sauce or the most expensive and probably the tastiest Lamb shoulder with mint sauce and cabbage.
@@123Andersonev You just reminded me Sainsbury's used to do frozen sage and onion Yorkshire puddings for chicken. Odd but not too bad ;)
@@g745-z2r it's all about getting the right herb, sauce and meat combination going 😋
I love German food. Comfort at its best
I liked this video. I'm a huge roast beef fan and this was pretty accurate and good
When done well, this is an amazing dish with a character
My favourite meal of the week.
we also used to have it when i was growing up in california - my dad was a butcher and my mum was italian - i now live in london - it does not happen very often at my house now but i love it when it does.
Cali Dad + Italian Mum = Living in London 😅
In São Paulo, Brazil, and some others cities around the country, there is specific dish for each day of the week. Off couse, you have more options, but you know that you will find that dish in that day. For e xemplo, Wednesday and saturday is "feijoada" (black beans with salted meats and sausages). Al the best!
Oh yummy! I love that idea!
@@paper601 You are welcome here!!
@@nivasantos7653 thank you! 😀
A roast dinner (or is it lunch, I can never be sure) was the one meal I craved and missed when I left home in the early 1990s. I haven’t eaten meat for over 20 years, but I still love a roast dinner at my sister’s, with Quorn Roast, all the vegetables, Yorkshire pudding and a jug of vegetable gravy and the obligatory mint sauce. One of the most comforting and delicious meals ever, and I am always starving when it is cooking, the food aromas awaken my appetite, and always ready to eat when it is placed on the table. People whinge and criticise British cuisine, but you can’t beat a good roast dinner.
If it's a question of class, according to Great British Mag: This eventually evolved into the lower classes calling their midday meal “dinner”..., while the upper classes called their midday meal “lunch”
If it's a question of time: "brunch" is a meal sometime between breakfast and lunch, then should "linner" be the meal sometime between lunch and dinner?
0:43 and the video description say it was filmed at Clapton Country Club in London, UK.
Clapton Country Club's site says:
SUNDAY ROAST CLUB
*Nut Loaf (Vegan/GF)*
Served with heritage carrots, parsnips, roasted potatoes, creamed leeks (oat cream), seasonal greens, Yorkshire pudding for vegetarians (optional) & onion gravy.
*Roast Butternut Squash with Pomegranate and Quinoa Stuffing (Vegan/GF)*
Served with heritage carrots, parsnips, creamed leeks (oat cream), seasonal greens, roasted potatoes, yorkshire pudding for vegetarians (optional) & onion gravy.
*Wild Mushroom & Truffle Wellington (Vegan)*
Our famous nut roast encased in golden pastry.
Served with Heritage roast potatoes, seasonal vegetables & Optional Yorkshire Pudding. (Vegan)
Nice one. Looks fantastic, would love to try one, one day. Greetings from Germany!
I'm from Vancouver British Columbia and the sunday roast is my favorite dish of all time. Yorkshires and gravy are a gift from heaven.
In Australia it doesn’t have to be a Sunday for a roast dinner. Usually an autumn/ winter dish, as with our climate spring and summer are BBQ and salad time !
The legendary Australian BBQ!
Christmas dinner is the king of roast dinners
That looks so good. I wish I could have that every Sunday.
The best part is all the family together
Even we here in Germany adopted the Roast. Well, we had our "Sonntagsbraten", which is a literally translation, but we added the Yorkies here for us. Our Sonntagsbraten was more often pork than beef. Last sunday i made a turkey-version.
Tourists love to eat this food when they come to UK, it's usually one of their trip highlights. The gravy is the keystone that makes a great roast not brown tasteless water which some places dish out.
The chef knew what he was doing, alright! The food looked perfectly cooked and all patrons appeared to enjoy it. What is the price for this meal?
0:43 and the video description say it was filmed at Clapton Country Club in London, UK.
Clapton Country Club's site says:
SUNDAY ROAST CLUB
*Free-Range Norfolk Roast Chicken*
w. lemon, rosemary and thyme infusion, served with heritage carrots, parsnips, roasted potatoes, creamed leeks, seasonal greens, yorkshire pudding & meat stock gravy.
£23.80
*Free-Range Scottish Prime Aberdeen grass fed Rib-Eye Roasted Beef*
Served with heritage carrots, parsnips, roasted potatoes, creamed leeks, seasonal greens, yorkshire pudding & meat stock gravy.
£28.80
*Free-Range Roast Redhill Farm award winning Pork Belly*
w. Apple & Thyme Sauce, served with heritage carrots, parsnips, roasted potatoes, creamed leeks, seasonal greens, Yorkshire pudding & meat stock gravy.
£25.80
*Nut Loaf (Vegan/GF)*
Served with heritage carrots, parsnips, roasted potatoes, creamed leeks (oat cream), seasonal greens, Yorkshire pudding for vegetarians (optional) & onion gravy.
£22.80
*Roast Butternut Squash with Pomegranate and Quinoa Stuffing (Vegan/GF)*
Served with heritage carrots, parsnips, creamed leeks (oat cream), seasonal greens, roasted potatoes, yorkshire pudding for vegetarians (optional) & onion gravy.
£22.80
*Wild Mushroom & Truffle Wellington (Vegan)*
Our famous nut roast encased in golden pastry.
Served with Heritage roast potatoes, seasonal vegetables & Optional Yorkshire Pudding. (Vegan)
£22.80
*All our roasts are available in Child Portions*
£12
Up until fairly recently, pubs had very specific opening hours in England (not sure on other parts of UK).
When I was a kid, my Dad would go down the pub from 12-2 on a Sunday, few pints and a game of cards/domino's with friends, then home for Sunday roast for 2:30/3 ish. Some family time, and then back down the pub on Sunday evening for a few more beers :)
Now pubs are open all day Sunday people tend to go out for a roast I think?
UK TV channels used to shut down in the afternoon and start broadcasting again in the early evening. That seems so strange now.
My late mother was English descent and we used to have Roast Beef prepared this way many Sunday nights. I had no idea this was a regular Sunday dinner occasion of Brits, I figured most Americans were eating like we were. Now I see this was because of my Mom's English background. She also used to prepare Pasties on cold days, which I believe came from Wales originally.
Mouth is watering. Do so miss my Yorkshire pudding. My dad wanted Yorkshire pudding with every hot meal and he came from London,
as a Briton without fail my mum makes a sunday roast i love it
We are Americans, mostly of Scandinavian descent. We had roast beef every Sunday mid-day like clockwork. My Mother would slow cook the roast for hours for about a 2pm meal after church. My Dad was a huge fan of roast beef, mashed potatoes and gravy.
I love love love sunday roast❤
I don't think Britain deserves its rep for bad food. I would argue that British cuisine is the best in Northern Europe. You just have to get over the fact that not everything has to be smothered in ghost chilies
Excessively spicy food is terrible anyway. This notion that "ethnic" cuisine is inherently tastier is bullocks.
English mustard is a very "pokey" condiment, not in the same way as a hot chilli, but still not for the fainthearted.
Always lived here in Britain and I’m pakistani. I have an aunt that makes food so spicy its inedible even to her own daughters 😂 so i agree, spicy does NOT mean better! I’d argue too much spice can make a dish lose flavour. You shouldn’t be excessive.
HAHAHAHA! That’s hilarious! Wait, you’re serious?
Doesn't make sense when you conquer half the world for spices and then don't use it
It wouldn't be a true Sunday roast without a generous spoonful of horseradish. C'mon!
Only beef..remember there are pork, chicken and lamb sunday roasts.
@@ekspatriatdon’t forget Duck. Possibly the most indulgent roast dinner of them all.
@@liamwright2510 OK then also Goose and Turkey I suppose.
its there as an optional extra not everyone likes horseradish, we try to avoid putting things on plates they would end up in the bin.
@@liamwright2510 Duck is for Christmas.
British food doesn't look bad as people say!
A great sunday meal!
The myth about British food being bad was born out of US servicemen stationed here during WW2 when rationing was in place. Traditional British dishes stand up well against any European cuisine. Try a proper shepherd's pie or a Cumberland sausage ring with English mustard.
@@justonecornetto80Those foods you mentioned aren't unique to England lol
I love English food. 🇬🇧
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To go to Mass in one of your ancient chapels or cathedrals on a crisp morning, stroll home around leafy lanes and parks, and then have a hearty meal with family on a day of Rest away from the business of the week......best of British culture and tradition. Strong families make strong nations. The warmest memories are those when you were young and around the table with your young parents.
Aussies love their SundayRoast. Favourite pub meal is Roast of the Day
Thanks, DW! This was fun to watch! What's better is that this video didn't have the roast speak to me in the first person. Boy, I hate that format!
Best meal ever created
As American I always heard of yorkshire pudding but never had it. As a k8d we had beef roast wit onions, , mashed potatoes, gravy, a veg, and Dad had to have beef noodles too. The folowing Sunday was Chicken, fried or usually roasted. I found a recipe for the yorkshire puddimg when I was 40 and made my own. Love it. I used beef drippings to make it. Roast beef on Sunday is still my favorite,but at 74 and alone I don't get to make it as often.
Love Yorkshire pudding!
I meet an English father and daughter when travelling in China a few years ago. I ended up visiting them in England for a couple of weeks. On both Sundays I was there they cooked a roast, pretty sure it was lamb. No Yorkshire pudding though (it does look yummy) I said to them we should add roasted pumpkin which to my surprise they’d never had. Obviously pumpkin isn’t big in the UK
it is in December/November we add a roast pumpkin and chestnut soup to our menu at that time.
We often have mashed roast swede its quite similar, I think that's why we don't eat very much pumpkin with our roast dinners, often people like turnips, potatoes, greens/cabbage, green beans, roast or mashed carrot, mushrooms. Just about every type of veg we have a way of roasting or steaming and mashing to have with our roast dinners.
Yorkshire pudding traditionally goes with beef so maybe that is why they didn’t do it as they cooked lamb.
I ordered a roast at a English pub in Boston MA yesterday, had no idea it was that big a deal.
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Nice with a bit of cauliflower cheese. Yum!
My family does Sunday roast here in the US. My dad is Dutch and Indonesian. I went to my uncles house on a Sunday and he makes the roast too. We usually have French bread on the side but I’d love to try a Yorkshire pudding. I was wondering what that was. My husbands Dutch family does Groente/green soup with meatballs or chicken sundays. We eat these meals in between church services. It’s sad British food gets “roasted” for being bland bc this looks amazing and so does the full English breakfast.
As if to prove my point about food culture served to the poster above... Dutch and Indonesian, some of the best chefs producing Indonesian food are located in Amsterdam. I am the owner of the restaurant featured in this video. We operate weddings and one couple had a connection to Malaysia and so I said we can do an Indonesian/South East Asian menu. Now I had some experience of this as I had dated a girl in may youth for 7 years. Her mother was Malaysian, she tough me to cook Indonesian food, Rendangs/Sambal sauces/Satay/Nasi Goreng etc To this day it is my favourite food. We absolutely nailed the food for the wedding impressing her family over from Malaysia.
A roast dinner or “Sunday roast”, though usually served on a Sunday, can be served on any day of the week. Why limit it to just Sunday? Also, why is stuffing absent from this video? It’s such a staple
There is stuffing in our pork dish
We do the chicken differently
Beef does not have stuffing nor do vegan dishes
My mother made one every Sunday.
Strangely some of the best British quisine has been kept alive in Kolkata, India former capital of Raj. Like Fish fry, rezella, white stew, mutton cutlets
Love India will check that out.
Poor Poms missing out on baked pumpkin and beans with then roast. 🤭😆🦘
We should really go back to a sunday roast and a lot less meat during the week. That way one would also much more apprechiate a good meat meal.
The British sunday roast is very tasty, but I really need some non-fatty vegetables with that. Otherwise it would be too heavy for me.
That mushroom pastry looked really delicious, too.
Nepalese Chef too. Ayo Gurkhali🇳🇵❤️🇬🇧😊
My problem with Sunday roasts is that it’s only available on Sundays 😭
The bakers in olden days did not bake bread on a sunday but the ovens would still be warm or hot from baking the night before. So familys used to put a tray of meat and veg into the ovens and go to church.
For my fellow yanks, the closest thing we have to Yorkshire pudding would be yeast rolls.
Delicious 😋
I grew up having a prime rib roast with Yorkshire pudding at Christmas with my family, and my mum loves a Sunday roast chicken. I finally went to the UK this spring and got a Sunday roast at a gorgeous pub in Hampstead Village - absolutely delicious and weirdly I think my favourite parts were the cabbage and the cauliflower cheese. I do love Yorkies but they're never as good at a restaurant as they are at home.
I LIVE IN HAWAII, IM GOING TO HAVE TO FLY OVER TO LONDON FOR THAT.
Sunday roasts in NZ mostly lamb with mint sauce roast potatoes, pumpkin and kumera, peas, carrots and a jug of gravy, desert was fruit icecream or custard. My mum made the best Sunday roast. My kids do the same as I did for them and I get to sit back and enjoy it. Yum.
People in this video talk about the taste of the Yorkshire pudding as if they ate it without gravy. But the point of Yorkshire pud is that it is meant to be eaten with loads of gravy because it stretched out a meal and filled you up if you could not afford a lot of meat.
I think people have different ways of eating most things. I remember in my youth a mate of mine, we used to go for breakfast most mornings for a fry up. He always used to eat everything clear the plate and leave the sausage till last. When I saw this I often would distract him and stick my fork in his sausage and nick it ! It became a standard form of entertainment at breakfast!
Hey! That rub for the roast is like my family’s seasonings for their beef roast. And we’re mostly German! We also roast potatoes, but cube them. I like this video.
I’m not even vegetarian or vegan, but that nut roast looked banging to be fair x
We have some of the best Vegan roasts on offer and many meat eaters select this. I am the owner of this place, I took the view as a Vegetarian of some 30+ years that if we were to do Vegetarian/Vegan options for a Sunday roast they had to be good, I've lost count of the number of times where I have been for a roast and been disappointed in the vegan/Vegetarian offerings.
The key to a good roast is the gravy.
I am watching 'Secret Eaters.' Those plates' calorie intake easily goes up to more than 1,000 kcal
Yeah, but maybe other than a light snack it's all you eat for the day.
0:43 and the video description say it was filmed at Clapton Country Club in London, UK.
Clapton Country Club's site says:
SUNDAY ROAST CLUB
*Nut Loaf (Vegan/GF)*
Served with heritage carrots, parsnips, roasted potatoes, creamed leeks (oat cream), seasonal greens, Yorkshire pudding for vegetarians (optional) & onion gravy.
*Roast Butternut Squash with Pomegranate and Quinoa Stuffing (Vegan/GF)*
Served with heritage carrots, parsnips, creamed leeks (oat cream), seasonal greens, roasted potatoes, yorkshire pudding for vegetarians (optional) & onion gravy.
*Wild Mushroom & Truffle Wellington (Vegan)*
Our famous nut roast encased in golden pastry.
Served with Heritage roast potatoes, seasonal vegetables & Optional Yorkshire Pudding. (Vegan)
*All our roasts are available in Child Portions*
Guten Abend.
I'm Polish who have been living in UK for over 20 years; Sunday Roast is what saves British cuisine - but you do have to pick a right place for a nice experience: some pubs (like whetherspoon) use frozen food which ruins the very idea
Come on. There’s many things they do well. Puddings. Other meat dishes. Caramelised Brussels sprouts. Its like saying the only thing saving Polish cuisine is the Pierogi.
wouldn't necessarily say its what saves British cuisine, but it is along with Fish and chips at the core of our food culture. I would agree with you about picking the right place and frozen food, there are too many poor eating places serving up dross in all cuisine not just 'British'.
In America, we eat the equivalent in calories every day but usually accomplish this before supper time.😂
Looks good
that gravy looks good
It’s not as popular in Scotland but it’s still enjoyed there.
I never knew that's where the term Beefeater came from.
@readymade83 The Beefeaters are the guards at the Tower of London, guarding the Crown Jewels.
@@dropperknot I knew that, it's also a brand of gin, I just never knew why they were called Beefeaters.
Kind of surprised that the plates were so piled high with food. I like a roast lunch on a Sunday as much as anyone else, but please, either get larger plates or indulge in seconds.
Just like Italian families get together on Sundays for the comfort food of pasta, gravy & meat balls
Growing up in Canada,we had roast beef dinner every Sunday,leftover beef if any,was made into a soup or stew for Monday and fish on Fridays.
Those spoiled Brits basically have Thanksgiving every Sunday….i’m so jealous
The pilgrims were British, thanksgiving is essentially just a British roast, though often with more modern American things added.
my mum made the best roastedpotatos!
Oh freaking yummy 😋
Sooooooooo nice that they have a vegetarian option 😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊
3 vegan options on the menu
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0:43 and the video description say it was filmed at Clapton Country Club in London, UK.
Clapton Country Club's site says:
SUNDAY ROAST CLUB
*Nut Loaf (Vegan/GF)*
Served with heritage carrots, parsnips, roasted potatoes, creamed leeks (oat cream), seasonal greens, Yorkshire pudding for vegetarians (optional) & onion gravy.
*Roast Butternut Squash with Pomegranate and Quinoa Stuffing (Vegan/GF)*
Served with heritage carrots, parsnips, creamed leeks (oat cream), seasonal greens, roasted potatoes, yorkshire pudding for vegetarians (optional) & onion gravy.
*Wild Mushroom & Truffle Wellington (Vegan)*
Our famous nut roast encased in golden pastry.
Served with Heritage roast potatoes, seasonal vegetables & Optional Yorkshire Pudding. (Vegan)
And any leftover meat and vegetables are used on Monday as Cottage Pie and Bubble and Squeak.
Boston boy here.......I recall that some of the older better hotels had this way back when. Also an afternoon tea at the Ritz Carlton. Also cod cakes and fries on Fridays.
I think the closest thing Americans eat routinely to Yorkshire Pudding is a popover.
This is a kind of authentic British traditional cuisine but why everybody said about chicken tikka or something from abroad, this kind of meal is so appetizing for me
The pudding looks good. The best part of this video is the origin of beefeaters. 🐄
"Roast beef of Old England. Old English roast beeeeeeeef!" (popular song 1700s) Very catchy song. We sing it before our Sunday Roast.
Soy española, y estuve recientemente en Londres. Probé el fish and chips, pero no el Sunday roast en algún pub. Tendré que volver a Londres sólo para probarlo 😋
Marjoram is great 👍.
I know it's less traditional but I love roast lamb with mint sauce for Sunday lunch. I agree with other posters about the size of the plates are too small in that video. Great to see Yorkshire puddings on DW
I am the owner of this place the portions are huge, we are renowned for a big serving
Im a brit who doesn't get particularly excited about a sunday roast but they are definitely nostalgic and nutrionally they are about as dense as it gets. Rather than being fancy or particularly flavoursome they are really more about family/community. A roast is a huge amount of effort tbh, ao part of the appeal is getting in the kitchen with loved ones and making it.
Really lovely once in a while, but definitely overrated by many IMO just in the same way- presumably- that fried chicken or lasagne is
It is no doubt a comfort food and one done well with friends and family brings feel good . I own this place and a big part of the joy of Sundays here is seeing that buzz of feel good, we add to the ambience with live Jazz. Last Sunday we had 400 people come through, that tells you a lot of what this is about. It is a much visited necessity in peoples lives, wherever they are from. Our clientele are literally from the world over, one regular visitor is a Vietnamese family that own a restaurant in London, they love the Sundays here and that very much sums up what this is about.
Sunday roast has to be on sunday, after all of the sandwiches we had during the weekdays
Britain's number 1 dish.
We need a monday roast