There's a takeout van around me every now and then that does this exact thing. Serve a roast dinner stuffed into a yorkshire which is sat in a takeaway tub.
It's not a new thing! I've been doing it for years! You can even buy yourkshire pudding wraps in food places like street food halls and restaurants! Where they do lots of different fillings! Give it a go, you never know 🌮🫔
@@SlimChances17it’s part of the citizenship test here, they sit you in a room on your own with a roast dinner and sit and watch you to see if you put all items into the Yorkshire, if you do then you pass 😂
This is nothing compared to the roast dinners I’d usually have. Meat, mash, carrots, peas, cauliflower and broccoli, stuffing, Yorkshire pudding, roast potatoes, roast parsnips topped with thick gravy and mint sauce. It’s a thing of beauty
Dude, putting a lil' bit of everything into the yorkshire pud is an absolute APEX British move - props for flying over here and instinctively making the correct greedy b*stard move, it's a winner and encouraged at any table that had even a modicum of respect for the Sunday Roast! 👌
What makes a roast dinner special to me is the tradition of it. The caring mother/grandmother/whoever cooks it spends a whole afternoon getting everything ready, timing everything, doing something truly special. I've never been a huge fan of the actual flavor (roast meat) but when everyone is back home together and my mum does it, it feels like a big warm hug.
I love cooking for my family. I enjoy the whole afternoon process, as you put it. It's such a wonderful tradition that brings everyone together. Everyone has their opinion on how to do it, much like the cooked breakfast. I love that
It's the fact he talks about how he put too much mustard on his sandwich the other day and then proceeds to slab a whole teaspoon on one piece of beef 😂
33dollars? Shocking! I would make you a roast for free. You eat so well, your enthusiasm for your food would be all the payment I need, I love to cook and when I cook for someone who enjoys food - it’s payment enough.
Just finished our Sunday roast - roast chicken, mashed potato, veggies, cauliflower cheese, homemade Yorkshire puddings, homemade gravy…every Sunday. It’s the only chance we really get to sit down as a family and catch up. Glad you enjoyed it.
Lol I dated a guy who ate just like this and it actually became a point of contention in the relationship because I would be a quarter way into my meal and he would be practically licking his plate and then just sit there looking at me to offer some of my food😂 I was always thinking, does he have a parasite or something lol
@@adrimcandrew-jj8qi its from growing up without much food in the house. my mum remarried and that guy wolfed his food down like in an eating competition. turns out they rarely ate outside of meal times growing up because their parents didnt buy any sort of snack food or sandwich fillings or whatever. The mum controlled everything they ate. So whenever food was i nfront of them theyd be starving and wolf it down. He'd even crack the bones of chicken and suck out the marrow like a dog lol. But tbf to him, he didnt have hardly any fat on him. didnt work out at all but had a manual labour job and probs about 5% body fat so looked ripped.
There’s a few things that we have on a Christmas dinner that we don’t have on a roast dinner like Pigs in blankets, cranberry sauce, bottle of Buck’s Fizz, Christmas crackers and a family argument because someone is refusing to wear their paper crown 😂
Thank you Ben. You have shed a new light on our food and culture and have shown many people that our cuisine is good and matches our country well. It may not look as fancy, exotic or exciting as other cuisines, but our food warms the soul in an otherwise cold environment.
Generally we have the sage & onion stuffing with chicken, but it is delicious with a roast anyway. Yes, we love carrots (or honey roasted), parsnips (or honey roasted), peas, green beans, broccoli, cauliflower or cabbage with our roast. Lots of gravy. Duck fat was used perhaps, but apparently goose fat gives the best potatoes. Paxo is the most famous brand of stuffing here, by the way.
Pretty solid roast. Usually you’d see a few more veggies, broccoli, green beens, sprouts etc. The Yorkshire pudding is made from batter, pretty such the same as pancake batter
My mother used to make giant yorkshire puddings that would fill the plate and you could put all of your dinner in, meat, veg and potatoes, then fill the whole thing with gravy and mint sauce. Happy days 🥰
I feel like you loved it, then you added the gravy and you truly got the appeal of a roast. You’ve definitely got the best bits of a roast there but we do normally add a green veg and maybe a cauliflower cheese. And thank you for showing horseradish some love, it’s absolutely the most underrated condiment. Wasabi, mustard (you went balls deep with that colmans) & horseradish are all in the same family of Brassicaceae. They all target the same addictive nose pain 😂
Only just discovered your channel and honestly, your take on British food has been so fun to watch. I’m born and raised in London and when I went to university all I would hear is international students moaning about our food. It was either too bland, too simple or just overall wasn’t good. Seeing you come from abroad and enjoying Nando’s, Greggs, fish and chips, sunday roast… bro. Thank you 🙏 glad you enjoy and you’re always welcome here. Wish these companies would give you the shoutout you deserve cause this is the best promotion I’ve ever seen for them. All the best
What it is is that if you do British food bad it is pretty bad but if done well for me it's not even a competition. I love most cuisines but I have never found one quite like the English where it is just pure simple perfection for anyone if done well. I'll admit it's not very experimental and some of it can be bland but it fits anyone's pallet and if done well it is literal perfection on a plate that trumps pretty much any other cuisine in pretty much every way!
As a person growing up in a condensed international city where i can literally eat cuisines from all around the world with easily accessible distance, and have also tried what Ben has been tasting over these few videos, UK food are actually bland for me unfortunately. Sure fish and chips are good, but its just deep fried fish and potatoes, most british cuisines are too simple it almosts feels like its not uk-excluisive. Most of them lacks complexity that makes a dish unique to a specific culture, it gets especially worse when the part of UK i live mostly operates kebab houses, which is literally a turkish cuisine.
Beef and horseradish sauce is the quintessential Roast Meat combination, us Brits would tend to eat mustard more with cold beef in a sandwich or beef platter. English mustard is very hot because it's basically ground mustard seed with very little added to it, I think the USA's version is more like Hot Dog mustard that has mayo in it. Whatever! So pleased you enjoyed it.
Love a good sunday dinner. Glad you enjoyed it. What's strange about sunday dinner is that everyone has it different. As for Christmas dinner, it's a more elevated and "posh" version of a sunday dinner. For christmas we have what are called pigs in blankets which are mini sausages wrapped in bacon, everyone fights over those and we also have a more expensive meat. For dessert we normally have mince pies or christmas pudding which is a fermented hot fruit cake with cream.
_" we have what are called pigs in blankets which are mini sausages wrapped in bacon, everyone fights over those"_ That must be a universal truth within the UK, apart from vegans I guess. One of my absolute favourite parts of a Christmas dinner. Also I can never eat desert after a good Christmas dinner!
I first was introduced to the channel via the greggs video. And now I’m back and he’s dressed like he’s from the peaky blinders. He’s really embraced the britishness
The misrepresentation is the more modern 21st century ‘lazy cooking’ bland frozen foods cooked for 20 minutes and done. I’m so thankful my fiancée is an absolute class cook and 90% fresh ingredients it’s true british cooking.
Really love all your videos! We might not have the best cuisine in the world but you treat what we have with such love and respect that it’s heartwarming content! Thank you from a Londoner! 🙏
Gravy marries the dish together. You can add so many things to the meal and it will work. Yorkshire puddings are one of the best invention known to mankind haha. Putting stuff in it is not wild also , its very normal. Love to see people enjoying our food , internet will always say we have bad food - but realistically its pretty good.
I think Christmas roast in England is a lot bigger then our normal roast and is accompanied by famous British Christmas puddings that our grandma's may or may not of been making for the past 4 months and you can light on fire. That's what makes it special at Christmas
Mine is a little bigger on Christmas because it has more meat etc but its usually just a massive meal no matter what. Like a full mountain on a plate 😂
@@distracted5097 yea its great. I got a roast yesterday and munched it so fucking fast then had desert and was ready for passing out so had to go up to my bed 🤣
Tip when making Roast potatoes, you want to half boil them or at least boil them to a point that they slide off a small sharp knife when pushed into the potatoes, also do them into halves or quarters depending on the size of the potatoe, then you want to give them a bash inside the saucepan to fluff them up this allows hot oil to be absorbed alot easier giving it a better crisp on the outside. You also want to heat oil/duck fat in a roasting tin 20 minutes prior to adding the potatoes so it gives them a head start to crisp up, you will need the oven on gas mark 6/7 or 180/190 degrees, cook for 40 minutes take out baist the fat over the potatoes after Turning them return back to the oven for another 40 meets or until a golden colour depending on your preference then your done after that. You'll thank me later! I always use Duck fat as it tastes so much better + it has a higher burning temperature than most oils, some people prefer beef dripping.
I do my potatoes just like you mentioned, but I use oil instead of duck fat (don't think there's halal duck fat in the uk) and it has the perfect balance of crunch and softness.
I don't use a tray for the meat, put it directly on the shelf with a large tray the size of the oven on the bottom shelf to catch the dripping fat and roast the potatoes in the fat of whatever meat is cooking. Gravy is made in the tray after the roasties are done. Every video I see of a roast, the potatoes look like they have hardly been roasted at all
Just started watching this channel and loving the UK series. I'm watching this as I'm cooking my roast dinner. I will say the one you've got is a little light on the food haha, I would definitely add broccoli and cabbage as that's what I have on mine alongside the potatoes, carrots and parsnips.
@@MarshTheDarsh we had a cheeky midweek roast last night, with chicken, pigs in blankets, yorkshire puddings, mashed potato, root veg mash, cauliflower cheese and peas. Even had apple cake and custard afterwards. Did have to have an early night though 😆
I'm here crying tears of laughter and joy watching you eat british food. So wholesome and i like that you love it so much. When you start shaking your head I'm like yep he loves it hell yeah 😂👍
They way you describe stuffing as a holiday highlight is the same way I feel about pigs in blankets and sprouts at Christmas. Its somehow not the same every week
For me a Sunday Roast is something that is best enjoyed with all your family. Even if you want it every weekend it should still be a special meal. I also like how every family has its own traditions- and will have certain dishes that they always have that others might not- Cauliflower cheese, or Mashed potatoes, or Peas, or Yorkshires regardless of what meat you have, or only Yorkshires with Beef. Like most of the best traditional British food its pretty simply to cook but when cooked well it is delicious. And you are right for calling out English mustard- makes a mockery of the meme that the British don't like heat
I freaking LOVE the head shakes of disbelief, its basically what I do every time im in the UK and eat this meal, along with a full english, its so good it boggles the mind 😄
I've never understood why English food has this reputation for being bland and disgusting. Sure, it's not "exotic" but it's generally very tasty when prepared nicely.
The beauty of a roast dinner is that you can change the meet and the veg and you have a completely different meal with different flavours, which is why you can have it week on week. Yorkshire puddings are basically just pancake batter in a cup form but are essential. I think you overbaked the stuffing a little, but it's delicious (Paxo is the king of stuffing). As for mustard, I can't get enough of the stuff. Colmanns is the king and is strong! Us Brits get laughed at for having no flavour or spices, but they haven't tried Colmann's mustard!
Awesome - it's a great pleasure to share food and seeing you enjoy British food is really cool. Carry on man and spread the news and love about British classics!
Nice to see you loving British food! I dont know where it gets the bad rep (i love it!). I'm not even British so i didint grew up with it. Real ale +pub food = haven!
Missing a few green veg in there but it still looks great! The stuffing is normally cooked inside a roast chicken, tastes a lot better but still nice on its own with gravy
Nah mate. If your adding chicken to the meal then yea but if its just a roast beef dinner. Stuffing is always still there. At least where I'm from in the UK its what I have always seen no matter the meat
Growing up we had this dinner every Sunday. I could still eat it every week, a couple of times a week, got to have plenty of gravy. Yorkshire puddings are a must 😉
I have just discovered this channel and I’ve gone down a rabbit hole with the British series - being a Brit and all. Love it. Also, Toby Carvery is you want a cheap tasty roast, coz £33 is expensive 😮 you could buy all the ingredients for less.
Idk whats so fun about these videos, just great watching someone else enjoying the same food you love haha, plus this guy is great, really open minded! Subbed
I always love Ben's genuine love and reactions to the food he tries. Once in a blue moon what he tries may not be that great but he stomachs it and says how he feels and that's what I love most about him and his channel.
It's been a long time since I last had a Sunday roast, and even longer since I last had a full English breakfast. Got me craving them though with these videos 😂 cheers for trying it out Ben and glad you enjoyed it
And it never gets boring as you have a different meat and change the veg, I rarely have the same veg, leeks, peas, savoy cabbage, just whatever takes your fancy but you got to have decent thickish gravy, that’s an absolute must…great vid Ben 👍
Agree with cofusion about English food having a bad rep, I travel there for work about two times a year and I love the food. You should get a steak and ale pie with chips or mashed potatoes, gravy and mushy peas. That's where it's at.
Ben! There is a restaurant chain here in the UK called Toby Carvery, which serves a roast dinner for £7.50 with unlimited vegetables! You can go there every day of the week not just Sunday
been loving the UK vids lately! I've lived here long enough to get used to the classic british meals so seeing other foreigners tuck into food that i myself had those first time experiences with in the past is a real treat, glad to see you're enjoying what the UK has to offer.
I was waiting for you to pile everything into the Yorkshire pudding I would do that right away! So fun, thanks for DRESSING (up) for your dinner, Ben! 🎉
Smart, duck fat, yes. Those are not the same as mine, I like to go for a crispier outer. Boil potatoes until soft when stabbed with a fork, shake about in the pan to roughen edges (yours didn't look like this stage was done), move to oiled tray and season with a little salt, add a brushing of the duck fat to each. Roast for 30-45.
Just had one today :) Sunday roast is dearly treasured here in the UK. You can go outside between 4-6 on a Sunday and you will see barely anyone outside in most places. We're all preparing and getting ready to feast on a beautiful Sunday roast.
Hi BenDean, your Sunday Roast looks delicious, they should of gave you some green peas with that to complete the meal. Yes us Brits like to put the roast beef, potatoes, veg and gravy into the Yorkshire pudding and eat it for an out of this world taste. I highly recommend Paxo sage and onion stuffing around £1.00 much better than the Tesco one. Paxo is the best especially if you mix it with a bit of sausage meat and onion and bake it with your roast meal or stuff it in a whole roast chicken. In the UK we like to have a whole roast dinner anytime during the week with stuffing, roast potatoes, peas, carrots and gave on the side. You are a true Brit now BenDeen now that you tried and enjoyed our traditional tasty food. You should try pie and mash next, toad in the hole (sausage in a Yorkshire pudding batter) and Shepherds pie.
as a british person who has roast dinners every sunday i would highly recommend lea and perrins worcestershire sauce, mint sauce or cranberry sauce to go with a roast dinner. also i reccomend trying to roast potatoes in chicken fat and a bunch of garlic, i do that every time i roast potatoes and they’re absolutely lovely love the video btw❤❤
A lot of our British Food can be firmly put into the " comfort food " category, a food that you associate with home, friends and family and always have a longing for when travelling overseas and always feel the need to have as soon as possible when you get home. I spent a great deal of my life working and travelling overseas and have had the great opportunity to try some truly beautiful foods from some beautiful countries....but looking out my window now at the Welsh hills, the biting winds and the promise of rain with the winter approaching, I feel the need to make .... Sausages and Mash with onion gravy Shephards/cottage pie with the mash crisped in the oven and big slab of bread and butter A big bowl of Beef Stew/Irish Stew that has been slow cooking all day. Haggis and tatties, smothered in Gravy A crispy, golden Steak and Kidney pie Any one of the multitude of curries we have adopted
In the UK we have a sauce or two that are traditionally served with certain meats. Beef goes with horseradish or mustard (you must have gotten a mild horseradish you should get the Coleman's one. Same brand as the mustard. Horseradish is usually more of a zinger than mustard.) Lamb is served with mint sauce, chicken with bread sauce, Turkey with cranberry sauce. Pork goes with apple sauce. Gammon with mustard (yes all uncooked ham is technically gammon but here generally if it's roasted for a meal is gammon if it's boiled of cured then it's ham) . There are some regional variations to these rules but in general is the way we do it here.
Your take on British food is the best I have ever seen from a foreigner to these shores. I'm glad you seem to like most of it and I hope you are enjoying your stay here. I don't think many people have a roast dinner every week. Maybe 20 or 30 years ago but not so much today. You can have a much lighter version that is basically lean roast meat and steamed green veg and no Yorkshire pudding (still plenty of gravy) which is considerably better for you. Also - WOW - that was a lot of mustard. You handled it well.
I make a regular roast, and my roast spuds (potatoes) are like glass they are that crispy, par boil, shake and turn your oven up as high it can go, Thanks Delia Smith ❤ also Mashed carrots loaded with butter and tons of black pepper is a must.
Making a Roast Dinner sandwich out of the Yorkshire pudding is an advanced manoeuvre. Fair play.
There's a takeout van around me every now and then that does this exact thing. Serve a roast dinner stuffed into a yorkshire which is sat in a takeaway tub.
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@@viviaesSarsenthere’s that does a pizza sized yorkie, fills it with everything and rolls it closed kinda like a burrito.
We make giant Yorkshire puds with the roast dinner served inside it, with gravy.
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It's not a new thing! I've been doing it for years! You can even buy yourkshire pudding wraps in food places like street food halls and restaurants! Where they do lots of different fillings! Give it a go, you never know 🌮🫔
Ben woke up and said “good day sir” while dressing up 😂. Love the aesthetic to match the England vibes
Ay, good mornin' bruv
Nobody dresses like that in England though
@@sneer0101 back in the day they did lol
@@sneer0101🤣 yeah he better shouldve got himself a nike tech fleece then
@@sneer0101 people do.. ever seen david beckham?
I love how his first instinct is to put everything in the yorkie 😂 ive done that my whole life
That's an honorary British entitlement move 😂
@@SlimChances17it’s part of the citizenship test here, they sit you in a room on your own with a roast dinner and sit and watch you to see if you put all items into the Yorkshire, if you do then you pass 😂
This is nothing compared to the roast dinners I’d usually have. Meat, mash, carrots, peas, cauliflower and broccoli, stuffing, Yorkshire pudding, roast potatoes, roast parsnips topped with thick gravy and mint sauce. It’s a thing of beauty
It is, and I try to make sure my kids have it every Sunday, (though admittedly, through summer we went a bit Mexican).
@@adrianclarke9132 I can’t have it every week. It’s too filling. Once or maybe twice a month is enough
Yeah I was wondering where all the veggies were - still, kudos for the Yorkshire sarnie 😀
Amen.
You said it 😊
Ben has stayed in the UK for so long that he has become a Peaky Blinder. Respect.
U know!!!! He was just missing the elbow patches
He was made to wear it by order of the Peaky Blinders.
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Lol....! 😅
Just missing a Brummie accent! 😂
Dude, putting a lil' bit of everything into the yorkshire pud is an absolute APEX British move - props for flying over here and instinctively making the correct greedy b*stard move, it's a winner and encouraged at any table that had even a modicum of respect for the Sunday Roast! 👌
plus its an actual thing that's sold - yorkshire burrito in camden does a roast dinner rolled in a giant yorkshire pudding and it's delicious :)
@@lxsa.They've been doing that in York since I can remember
"APEX British move" lol, I love that phrasing.
Facts 😂😂😂
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“Coleman’s of Nor- witch” -Killed me 😂
What makes a roast dinner special to me is the tradition of it. The caring mother/grandmother/whoever cooks it spends a whole afternoon getting everything ready, timing everything, doing something truly special. I've never been a huge fan of the actual flavor (roast meat) but when everyone is back home together and my mum does it, it feels like a big warm hug.
Yeah man you're exactly right
the best atmosphere! used to spend most sundays at my nans with all my cousins! the roast dinner was the best part of the week
Yes,that’s it’s 🏴
I love cooking for my family. I enjoy the whole afternoon process, as you put it. It's such a wonderful tradition that brings everyone together. Everyone has their opinion on how to do it, much like the cooked breakfast. I love that
lol it doesn't take much time at all, just a normal weeknight meal tbh
Sunday roast should write you off for the rest of the day, big meal, nap, chill out, perfect resting day
Nothing better than "the Sunday afternoon feeling" LOL.
That’s me now I feel f**cked😂
Throw a pint into the mix and I’m down for the count 😂 guaranteed a lil nap afterwards
Five pints of bitter before tho )
The big roast at Xmas writes me off for the rest of the holidays then another big roast New Year’s Day too 😂😂 good being British
As a brit watching the amount of mustard you put onto that made my eyes water 😂 We're taught from an early age to respect the colmans.
Same! Was sitting shaking my head saying "no,,no, no,no!"
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It's the fact he talks about how he put too much mustard on his sandwich the other day and then proceeds to slab a whole teaspoon on one piece of beef 😂
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Just found you. As a UK resident, seeing you going nuts over our food is joyfull. Oh and gravy IS LIFE
"We're going to do something wild" proceeds to do what every Brit does with a Yorkshire pudding XD great video mate
i will be so sad when this series is over, it's been so wholesome and nice to see someone look at british food and genuinely enjoy it
Love how Ben says he can't believe we eat that on the reg, proceeds to inhale it in about three minutes, then says he's "not full" 😂
Not much veg on the plate
@@mariacurtis9247It was a little sparse. Not sure I'd eat stuffing from a cow either, if he'd had chicken on the plate, maybe.
@whosasking0o waiting for my chicken roast. Can smell the gravy now. Ah bisto.
@@jessewrites17792 I'm jealous, gone rogue with mine today. Enjoy 👌
I didn’t take that he meant the volume - more that it’s a great meal that we eat regularly
As a Briton who has been watching this channel for years, this is sheer joy.
33dollars? Shocking! I would make you a roast for free. You eat so well, your enthusiasm for your food would be all the payment I need, I love to cook and when I cook for someone who enjoys food - it’s payment enough.
"If i'm doing anything wrong don't _roast_ me in the comments please"
Classic Ben humor
Just finished our Sunday roast - roast chicken, mashed potato, veggies, cauliflower cheese, homemade Yorkshire puddings, homemade gravy…every Sunday. It’s the only chance we really get to sit down as a family and catch up.
Glad you enjoyed it.
Lush, am just waiting for mine now. Can hear the kettle boiling for the gravy. Ah bisto. ❤
@@jessewrites17792 ohhhh i lovveee bisto
Mmmm cauliflower cheese that’s the one 😋
I always have mine with cranberry sauce! a must-have.
I was gonna say missing out on so much! Especially peas etc
Sunday roast is an absolute staple in Britain
"Cmon now."....while stuffing your face with a filled Yorkie, what a legend...hahaha you make me laugh xxx
This kid eats like the Old Bill are booting his frontdoor in! Love it! 😂
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I dont think he's seen food before😂 nearly bite his fingers off at the end😂
Hahahhahahaha
Lol I dated a guy who ate just like this and it actually became a point of contention in the relationship because I would be a quarter way into my meal and he would be practically licking his plate and then just sit there looking at me to offer some of my food😂 I was always thinking, does he have a parasite or something lol
@@adrimcandrew-jj8qi its from growing up without much food in the house. my mum remarried and that guy wolfed his food down like in an eating competition. turns out they rarely ate outside of meal times growing up because their parents didnt buy any sort of snack food or sandwich fillings or whatever. The mum controlled everything they ate. So whenever food was i nfront of them theyd be starving and wolf it down. He'd even crack the bones of chicken and suck out the marrow like a dog lol.
But tbf to him, he didnt have hardly any fat on him. didnt work out at all but had a manual labour job and probs about 5% body fat so looked ripped.
There’s a few things that we have on a Christmas dinner that we don’t have on a roast dinner like Pigs in blankets, cranberry sauce, bottle of Buck’s Fizz, Christmas crackers and a family argument because someone is refusing to wear their paper crown 😂
That'll be me...
"Mother! I'm a 44 year old disabled war veteran; I am NOT wearing a tissue paper crown like a child..."
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i have no shame in saying that pigs in blankets are an all year round occurrence for me
That’s a lot of the things we have in the south us.
Lol, dont forget the red cabbage too!
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Thank you Ben. You have shed a new light on our food and culture and have shown many people that our cuisine is good and matches our country well. It may not look as fancy, exotic or exciting as other cuisines, but our food warms the soul in an otherwise cold environment.
Generally we have the sage & onion stuffing with chicken, but it is delicious with a roast anyway. Yes, we love carrots (or honey roasted), parsnips (or honey roasted), peas, green beans, broccoli, cauliflower or cabbage with our roast. Lots of gravy. Duck fat was used perhaps, but apparently goose fat gives the best potatoes. Paxo is the most famous brand of stuffing here, by the way.
Lard :D
Pretty solid roast. Usually you’d see a few more veggies, broccoli, green beens, sprouts etc. The Yorkshire pudding is made from batter, pretty such the same as pancake batter
Sprouts - yesss! 👍😅
When you have Yorkshire pudding you realise that’s what gravy was made for
My mother used to make giant yorkshire puddings that would fill the plate and you could put all of your dinner in, meat, veg and potatoes, then fill the whole thing with gravy and mint sauce. Happy days 🥰
I feel like you loved it, then you added the gravy and you truly got the appeal of a roast. You’ve definitely got the best bits of a roast there but we do normally add a green veg and maybe a cauliflower cheese. And thank you for showing horseradish some love, it’s absolutely the most underrated condiment. Wasabi, mustard (you went balls deep with that colmans) & horseradish are all in the same family of Brassicaceae. They all target the same addictive nose pain 😂
Can't beat horseradish on roast beef, it elevates it to the next level.
Horseradish just (only just) pips it for me on beef 👍
2 weeks living in UK be like:
Only just discovered your channel and honestly, your take on British food has been so fun to watch. I’m born and raised in London and when I went to university all I would hear is international students moaning about our food. It was either too bland, too simple or just overall wasn’t good. Seeing you come from abroad and enjoying Nando’s, Greggs, fish and chips, sunday roast… bro. Thank you 🙏 glad you enjoy and you’re always welcome here. Wish these companies would give you the shoutout you deserve cause this is the best promotion I’ve ever seen for them. All the best
give those students some colmans, some marmite, nandos xtra hot, a vindaloo, see if its bland enough for them now 🤣
What it is is that if you do British food bad it is pretty bad but if done well for me it's not even a competition. I love most cuisines but I have never found one quite like the English where it is just pure simple perfection for anyone if done well. I'll admit it's not very experimental and some of it can be bland but it fits anyone's pallet and if done well it is literal perfection on a plate that trumps pretty much any other cuisine in pretty much every way!
As a person growing up in a condensed international city where i can literally eat cuisines from all around the world with easily accessible distance, and have also tried what Ben has been tasting over these few videos, UK food are actually bland for me unfortunately. Sure fish and chips are good, but its just deep fried fish and potatoes, most british cuisines are too simple it almosts feels like its not uk-excluisive.
Most of them lacks complexity that makes a dish unique to a specific culture, it gets especially worse when the part of UK i live mostly operates kebab houses, which is literally a turkish cuisine.
Nando's isn't British, Greggs is shit, and fish and chips and sunday roast are tasty but they are plain.
@Civman-yr8lb but the food in the UK is very bland compared to other countries. I am not saying it's bad it just... Well... meh.
Beef and horseradish sauce is the quintessential Roast Meat combination, us Brits would tend to eat mustard more with cold beef in a sandwich or beef platter. English mustard is very hot because it's basically ground mustard seed with very little added to it, I think the USA's version is more like Hot Dog mustard that has mayo in it. Whatever! So pleased you enjoyed it.
Love a good sunday dinner. Glad you enjoyed it.
What's strange about sunday dinner is that everyone has it different. As for Christmas dinner, it's a more elevated and "posh" version of a sunday dinner. For christmas we have what are called pigs in blankets which are mini sausages wrapped in bacon, everyone fights over those and we also have a more expensive meat. For dessert we normally have mince pies or christmas pudding which is a fermented hot fruit cake with cream.
_" we have what are called pigs in blankets which are mini sausages wrapped in bacon, everyone fights over those"_
That must be a universal truth within the UK, apart from vegans I guess. One of my absolute favourite parts of a Christmas dinner. Also I can never eat desert after a good Christmas dinner!
Man I'd love to see Ben go to a carvery, bet that'd blow his mind
Yeah a proper pub roast. What he’s got here is the saddest looking roast I’ve ever seen 😂
imagine him at a toby
Yeah it would be much better
Ben is looking quite dapper today on this Sunday Morning. Enjoying a nice Sunday Dinner
Peaky blinders
Best quote: “If I could eat this every week, I might have to start going to church, is what I’m saying. Goddamn!” 😅
You sir are an honorary English man. I winced at the amount of mustard you had but took it like a pro. Fair play to you! 👏👏👏
I first was introduced to the channel via the greggs video. And now I’m back and he’s dressed like he’s from the peaky blinders.
He’s really embraced the britishness
Barely anyone dresses like this in Britain though
@@sneer0101 No shit, it's not 1920
@@sneer0101I do.
Unban me smh.
British food gets a lot of bad rep because people misrepresent it, I'm glad you're enjoying some of the staple dishes over here :)
The misrepresentation is the more modern 21st century ‘lazy cooking’ bland frozen foods cooked for 20 minutes and done. I’m so thankful my fiancée is an absolute class cook and 90% fresh ingredients it’s true british cooking.
No parsnips 😢
@@Aaron19987 What are you waffling about?
@@Aaron19987what are you yapping about
How do people misrepresent it? Genuine question
Really love all your videos! We might not have the best cuisine in the world but you treat what we have with such love and respect that it’s heartwarming content! Thank you from a Londoner! 🙏
Bro you're a maniac for putting that much mustard on one bite lmao
Gravy marries the dish together. You can add so many things to the meal and it will work. Yorkshire puddings are one of the best invention known to mankind haha. Putting stuff in it is not wild also , its very normal. Love to see people enjoying our food , internet will always say we have bad food - but realistically its pretty good.
yorkshire puddings are basically just the savory counterpart to pancakes
@@DilophoPut bacon and cheese in a pancake. You won't regret it
when he started explaining how much mustard he put on the sandwitch i was crying 😂😂😂
Snap! It's like when they try Marmite, on a spoon 😂😂😂
"it'll cheer you right up, you'll be feeling right as rain" 😂😂 gotta love a roast dinner.
I think Christmas roast in England is a lot bigger then our normal roast and is accompanied by famous British Christmas puddings that our grandma's may or may not of been making for the past 4 months and you can light on fire. That's what makes it special at Christmas
i saw how some old christmas puddings were made and preserved…strange to see
Mine is a little bigger on Christmas because it has more meat etc but its usually just a massive meal no matter what. Like a full mountain on a plate 😂
@jake62265 😂 that's the best hike
@@distracted5097 yea its great. I got a roast yesterday and munched it so fucking fast then had desert and was ready for passing out so had to go up to my bed 🤣
@@jake62265 😂
Tip when making Roast potatoes, you want to half boil them or at least boil them to a point that they slide off a small sharp knife when pushed into the potatoes, also do them into halves or quarters depending on the size of the potatoe, then you want to give them a bash inside the saucepan to fluff them up this allows hot oil to be absorbed alot easier giving it a better crisp on the outside. You also want to heat oil/duck fat in a roasting tin 20 minutes prior to adding the potatoes so it gives them a head start to crisp up, you will need the oven on gas mark 6/7 or 180/190 degrees, cook for 40 minutes take out baist the fat over the potatoes after Turning them return back to the oven for another 40 meets or until a golden colour depending on your preference then your done after that. You'll thank me later! I always use Duck fat as it tastes so much better + it has a higher burning temperature than most oils, some people prefer beef dripping.
I do my potatoes just like you mentioned, but I use oil instead of duck fat (don't think there's halal duck fat in the uk) and it has the perfect balance of crunch and softness.
It's also a good tip to coat your potatoes with either maize or semolina powder to really crisp them up.
@@kdlofty that actually makes sense. Will give that a go as well. Thanks for the tip 👍
@@ayb1470 You're welcome. Anytime
I don't use a tray for the meat, put it directly on the shelf with a large tray the size of the oven on the bottom shelf to catch the dripping fat and roast the potatoes in the fat of whatever meat is cooking. Gravy is made in the tray after the roasties are done. Every video I see of a roast, the potatoes look like they have hardly been roasted at all
Just started watching this channel and loving the UK series. I'm watching this as I'm cooking my roast dinner. I will say the one you've got is a little light on the food haha, I would definitely add broccoli and cabbage as that's what I have on mine alongside the potatoes, carrots and parsnips.
Yes, there should be a lot more vegetables. I think Ben would enjoy cauliflower cheese too!
@@lucyj8204 i was thinking the same thing, very veg deficient! Cauli cheese is a must, and stuffing has no place on a beef roast!
@@MarshTheDarsh we had a cheeky midweek roast last night, with chicken, pigs in blankets, yorkshire puddings, mashed potato, root veg mash, cauliflower cheese and peas. Even had apple cake and custard afterwards. Did have to have an early night though 😆
I'm here crying tears of laughter and joy watching you eat british food. So wholesome and i like that you love it so much. When you start shaking your head I'm like yep he loves it hell yeah 😂👍
They way you describe stuffing as a holiday highlight is the same way I feel about pigs in blankets and sprouts at Christmas. Its somehow not the same every week
For me a Sunday Roast is something that is best enjoyed with all your family. Even if you want it every weekend it should still be a special meal. I also like how every family has its own traditions- and will have certain dishes that they always have that others might not- Cauliflower cheese, or Mashed potatoes, or Peas, or Yorkshires regardless of what meat you have, or only Yorkshires with Beef.
Like most of the best traditional British food its pretty simply to cook but when cooked well it is delicious.
And you are right for calling out English mustard- makes a mockery of the meme that the British don't like heat
Happy Sunday, Ben! Glad you enjoyed the roastie :D
Roast potatos always made in duck fat 100%
have you tired semolina with the goose/duck fat, it always makes them extra crispy :) soo good.
love how positively you speak of our food and your research, props to you
wiping the plate down with the Yorkshire pudding - you've just earnt your UK Citizenship with that one move alone! Gz
I freaking LOVE the head shakes of disbelief, its basically what I do every time im in the UK and eat this meal, along with a full english, its so good it boggles the mind 😄
I've never understood why English food has this reputation for being bland and disgusting. Sure, it's not "exotic" but it's generally very tasty when prepared nicely.
Ben woke up today and decided to look like a Peaky Blinder character 😂
The beauty of a roast dinner is that you can change the meet and the veg and you have a completely different meal with different flavours, which is why you can have it week on week. Yorkshire puddings are basically just pancake batter in a cup form but are essential. I think you overbaked the stuffing a little, but it's delicious (Paxo is the king of stuffing). As for mustard, I can't get enough of the stuff. Colmanns is the king and is strong! Us Brits get laughed at for having no flavour or spices, but they haven't tried Colmann's mustard!
Listening to this was just great! What a guy! Everything he said was exactly what wed expect to hear much respect my brother
Now combine the full English for breakfast, a roast for lunch and watch the afternoon footy on tv. That's a proper British Sunday. Great vid.
I'm not gonna lie, these last 4 mukbangs have by far been the best ever. Amazing!! Next up, kebabs, cottage pie, meat and potato pie?
I knew that was too much mustard. That definitely cleared his sinuses 😅
Awesome - it's a great pleasure to share food and seeing you enjoy British food is really cool. Carry on man and spread the news and love about British classics!
Nice to see you loving British food! I dont know where it gets the bad rep (i love it!). I'm not even British so i didint grew up with it. Real ale +pub food = haven!
The bad rep comes from Americans who still live off the stereotype from ww2 rationing.
It's hilarious how backwards they are
Missing a few green veg in there but it still looks great! The stuffing is normally cooked inside a roast chicken, tastes a lot better but still nice on its own with gravy
Nah mate. If your adding chicken to the meal then yea but if its just a roast beef dinner. Stuffing is always still there. At least where I'm from in the UK its what I have always seen no matter the meat
Growing up we had this dinner every Sunday. I could still eat it every week, a couple of times a week, got to have plenty of gravy. Yorkshire puddings are a must 😉
I have just discovered this channel and I’ve gone down a rabbit hole with the British series - being a Brit and all. Love it.
Also, Toby Carvery is you want a cheap tasty roast, coz £33 is expensive 😮 you could buy all the ingredients for less.
your TV is on fire
Ben being in England is my dream crossover episode.
Idk whats so fun about these videos, just great watching someone else enjoying the same food you love haha, plus this guy is great, really open minded! Subbed
When you chew it,it sounds like your swooshing mouth wash.😂
I always love Ben's genuine love and reactions to the food he tries. Once in a blue moon what he tries may not be that great but he stomachs it and says how he feels and that's what I love most about him and his channel.
It's been a long time since I last had a Sunday roast, and even longer since I last had a full English breakfast. Got me craving them though with these videos 😂 cheers for trying it out Ben and glad you enjoyed it
I have never, ever found it so satisfying watching someone eat.
And it never gets boring as you have a different meat and change the veg, I rarely have the same veg, leeks, peas, savoy cabbage, just whatever takes your fancy but you got to have decent thickish gravy, that’s an absolute must…great vid Ben 👍
deffo needs some pigs in blankets, cauliflower cheese and sausagemeat stuffing to be really legit. looks tasty though
Nah pigs in blankets is for crimbo dinner
@@bigt9374nah why are you limiting yourself my guy
Makes xma ss dinner worth the wait otherwise it just another roast
That's why the sale of pigs in blankets sky rockets during xmass
@@AspiringSleeperBecause most people don't have them unless it's Christmas.
It's that simple. You don't get them on an average Sunday roast.
Agree with cofusion about English food having a bad rep, I travel there for work about two times a year and I love the food. You should get a steak and ale pie with chips or mashed potatoes, gravy and mushy peas. That's where it's at.
Yeah every Sunday lunch is still family get together tradition. And sausagemeat stuffing is where it’s at
There is something very gratifying watching someone enjoy their food as much as you do . Every british mum would love to cook for you sir.
Bro got the "fancy a spot of tea" type fit but he looking hella clean with it
A roast dinner the perfect Sunday afternoon comfort food. Especially on a chilly day like today ❤
Turning the Yorkshire pudding into a sunday roast 쌈 is a big brain move
Hearing his comments warms my heart
Ben! There is a restaurant chain here in the UK called Toby Carvery, which serves a roast dinner for £7.50 with unlimited vegetables! You can go there every day of the week not just Sunday
Just got done eating my own Sunday Roast, it's a perfect way to end off the week and get that energy for the next day.
He really swapped the beanie for a cap. Seems to be enjoying London!
Glad you got the WHOLE deal with how to use the Yorkshire Pudding at the end. Well Played!
been loving the UK vids lately! I've lived here long enough to get used to the classic british meals so seeing other foreigners tuck into food that i myself had those first time experiences with in the past is a real treat, glad to see you're enjoying what the UK has to offer.
I was waiting for you to pile everything into the Yorkshire pudding I would do that right away! So fun, thanks for DRESSING (up) for your dinner, Ben! 🎉
When I was a child it was tradition to throw everything you can into a yorkshire pudding and see who could eat it the fastest fun times
i laughed so hard when you smothered that beef in the mustard. bad call bro!!! 😂😂😂
Smart, duck fat, yes. Those are not the same as mine, I like to go for a crispier outer. Boil potatoes until soft when stabbed with a fork, shake about in the pan to roughen edges (yours didn't look like this stage was done), move to oiled tray and season with a little salt, add a brushing of the duck fat to each. Roast for 30-45.
Just had one today :) Sunday roast is dearly treasured here in the UK. You can go outside between 4-6 on a Sunday and you will see barely anyone outside in most places. We're all preparing and getting ready to feast on a beautiful Sunday roast.
the way Ben was spreading that Yorkshire pudding with his fingers finna make me act up
I try to make an effort to have a roast every Sunday! It’s something to look forward to for sure and always worth the effort. Glad you enjoyed it!
Hi BenDean, your Sunday Roast looks delicious, they should of gave you some green peas with that to complete the meal. Yes us Brits like to put the roast beef, potatoes, veg and gravy into the Yorkshire pudding and eat it for an out of this world taste. I highly recommend Paxo sage and onion stuffing around £1.00 much better than the Tesco one. Paxo is the best especially if you mix it with a bit of sausage meat and onion and bake it with your roast meal or stuff it in a whole roast chicken. In the UK we like to have a whole roast dinner anytime during the week with stuffing, roast potatoes, peas, carrots and gave on the side. You are a true Brit now BenDeen now that you tried and enjoyed our traditional tasty food. You should try pie and mash next, toad in the hole (sausage in a Yorkshire pudding batter) and Shepherds pie.
as a british person who has roast dinners every sunday i would highly recommend lea and perrins worcestershire sauce, mint sauce or cranberry sauce to go with a roast dinner.
also i reccomend trying to roast potatoes in chicken fat and a bunch of garlic, i do that every time i roast potatoes and they’re absolutely lovely
love the video btw❤❤
You eat roast dinner EVERYDAY?! Blimey
@@silentgruntlmao i just realised that mistake, i meant every sunday 🤣
I love my roast potatoes with goose fat. What type of meat do you normally add your cranberry sauce to???? I prefer it with roast chicken.
All this guy needs now is a UK passport.
He nailed the Yorkshire pudding.
A lot of our British Food can be firmly put into the " comfort food " category, a food that you associate with home, friends and family and always have a longing for when travelling overseas and always feel the need to have as soon as possible when you get home.
I spent a great deal of my life working and travelling overseas and have had the great opportunity to try some truly beautiful foods from some beautiful countries....but looking out my window now at the Welsh hills, the biting winds and the promise of rain with the winter approaching, I feel the need to make ....
Sausages and Mash with onion gravy
Shephards/cottage pie with the mash crisped in the oven and big slab of bread and butter
A big bowl of Beef Stew/Irish Stew that has been slow cooking all day.
Haggis and tatties, smothered in Gravy
A crispy, golden Steak and Kidney pie
Any one of the multitude of curries we have adopted
My mouth is watering just reading that list!
In the UK we have a sauce or two that are traditionally served with certain meats. Beef goes with horseradish or mustard (you must have gotten a mild horseradish you should get the Coleman's one. Same brand as the mustard. Horseradish is usually more of a zinger than mustard.) Lamb is served with mint sauce, chicken with bread sauce, Turkey with cranberry sauce. Pork goes with apple sauce. Gammon with mustard (yes all uncooked ham is technically gammon but here generally if it's roasted for a meal is gammon if it's boiled of cured then it's ham) . There are some regional variations to these rules but in general is the way we do it here.
im so happy with the way you pronounced yorkshire instead of people saying yorkSHIRE you actually said yorksher the proper way
Your take on British food is the best I have ever seen from a foreigner to these shores. I'm glad you seem to like most of it and I hope you are enjoying your stay here. I don't think many people have a roast dinner every week. Maybe 20 or 30 years ago but not so much today. You can have a much lighter version that is basically lean roast meat and steamed green veg and no Yorkshire pudding (still plenty of gravy) which is considerably better for you.
Also - WOW - that was a lot of mustard. You handled it well.
I make a regular roast, and my roast spuds (potatoes) are like glass they are that crispy, par boil, shake and turn your oven up as high it can go, Thanks Delia Smith ❤ also Mashed carrots loaded with butter and tons of black pepper is a must.