Welsh food

Today's recipe for Welsh Onion Cake is a traditional Welsh recipe, where the humble potato takes centre stage along with onions and butter.

Get your potatoes to brown just like this and we'll call you Nigella. This filling, one-pot hot-pot can be ready in under two hours and will serve a hungry table of friends or family. Recipe here.

Classic Welsh Rarebit is a comforting dish to make for lunch or dinner.

When the theme “Sweet as Pie” was announced for this months Sweet Adventures Blog Hop hosted by KC of the Capers of a Kitchen Crusader… apple pie came to mind. Warm apple pie with…

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Known in Welsh as "bara lawr", lavercakes are a combination of the traditional Welsh delicacy, laver seaweed, and rolled oats, fried in bacon fat. Usually, they're eaten as part of a full Welsh breakfast. While the Welsh tend to disagree on the exact components of our national breakfast, generally, we'd expect to see bacon, eggs and Laverbread on the plate, at the very least, although some believe that a true Welsh breakfast also includes fresh cockles (Penclawdd cockles, ideally), sausages…

Welsh cakes are incredibly easy to make and if you don’t have a traditional griddle, then a heavy cast iron frying pan can be used instead. Sometimes called Bakestones, this recipe was taken from an old Be-Ro cookbook and I've changed the measurements into metric for today's bakers.

Welsh cakes are a sweet, quick bread, spiced and studded with currants. The thin rounds of dough were traditionally cooked on a heated bakestone over an open fire, which led to alternative names of bakestones, griddle cakes or pics (from the Welsh term picau ar y maen meaning ‘cakes on the stone’). Delicious served hot or cold, they are often dusted with sugar.

These Welsh corned beef rissoles are just like the ones you can find in traditional fish and chip shops in Wales. But what makes Welsh rissoles "Welsh", exactly? While international variations of the rissole use ground or minced beef, lamb, or pork, authentic Welsh rissoles call for corned beef. Crisp, burnt orange balls crammed with creamy mashed potato flecked with salty corned beef and soft, golden onions, it's no wonder they're such a popular Welsh comfort food. Best of all, they'll be…

This traditional Welsh pudding is delicious served hot or cold with a generous amount of cream.