I won't claim that all of these dishes are originally British but they are definitely of the most popular in Britain, particularly England, which is where I'm from.
These dishes are particularly my personal favourites.
Breakfast
Crumpets, toasted and served with butter, sometimes jam.
Traditional English breakfast
Fried bread or toast, some people will have both.
Bacon
Lincolnshire sausage
Mushrooms (fried) with a bit of butter
Half of a fried tomato
Baked beans
Egg, either fried, srambled or poached. Some may like it boiled.
Black pudding. (not for me)
Beans on toast. Never met a single Brit who doesn't enjoy this.
Starters
Soup (pictured below is chicken, vegetable soup)
Others favourites are chicken noodle or tomato
Typically served with bread and butter
Pate and toast
Beef pate and liver pate are both popular choices
Prawn cocktail
Prawns in seafood sauce (tomato ketchup and mayonnaise mixed) served with a salad garnish and lemon
Lunch and Dinner/Tea (depending where you're from)
Chicken tikka curry served with rice and naan bread
Shepherds /cottage pie
Its beef or lamb minced meat, peas, carrots, onions, beef stock (I use oxo cube) mashed potato and cheese on top
Pies. Popular ones include steak and onion, steak and kidney and chicken and vegetable, served with chips or mash and gravy.
Toad in the hole.
Sausages cooked in a Yorkshire pudding, usually served with various vegetables and mashed potato
Fish and chips.
Battered cod or haddock served with chips, mushy peas, lemon and tartar sauce
Roast dinner. Typically served on a Sunday. Popular meats include chicken, beef, pork or lamb. Served with various vegetables, mashed or roast potato, stuffing, Yorkshire pudding and gravy
Desserts/puddings
Strawberry Swiss roll. A sweet cake served cold or hot with custard
Spotted dick. Warm cake with currants, served with custrad
Battenberg. A very sweet cake with marzipan on the outside
Vienese whirls, shortbread with cream and jam in the middle
Victoria sponge cake with jam and cream in the middle
Egg custard
Mince pies. Typically served at Christmas time. Spiced currants in a pie served cold or hot with custard
Snacks
Pork pie. Pork in a jelly in a crusty pastry pie.
Sausage roll. Sausage in a crusty pastry
Scotch egg. Boiled egg in a sausage case with breadcrumbs
Cornish pasty. Beef and veg in a pastry pocket
Biscuits
I'd argue that a jaffa cake is not a biscuit but They are amazing. A cake base with orange jelly in the middle and chocolate on top.
Of course there's a lot more British foods that I've missed off but this is a list of my personal favourites and also a popular list of other Brits favourites
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