Favourite Sunday roast

[AmericasTorturedBrow]

Friends over for Sunday dinner next weekend (they're American and we live in LA), so we've promised a full on Sunday roast cos it's looking like a chilly 17degrees C

It's literally been YEARS, thinking I'll prob do chicken but then I bloody love Yorkshire pudding so should prob do beef non? Roast tatties, parsnips, carrots, gravy.....thoughts and opinions on your fav Sunday roast plus all trimmings (and pud)

[Anabundanceof]

Pork with crackling

[Quitelikely]

Roast beef, Yorkie puds with creamy mash pots. Mmmmm

[tshirtsuntan]

We have yorkies with chicken, I love em! Chicken, roasties, yorkies, stuffing, cauli cheese, carrots and something green...the best

[trixymalixy]

Lamb. Studded with rosemary and garlic and served with mint sauce.

[Koalafications]

Beef or chicken
Roasties
Yorkshires
Cauliflower cheese
Carrots
Broccoli
Parsnips

[AmericasTorturedBrow]

Lamb sadly is a no as you can't get the decent welsh stuff here

Glad to hear everyone agrees you can have Yorkshire no matter the meat.

What does everyone normally like for their green? I think we usually do green beans

Pud?

[AmericasTorturedBrow]

Crumble?!

[CogitoErgoSometimes]

As it's (almost) spring, lamb might fun. I've got one prepped up for the oven just now smothered in garlic and rosemary. Can't wait

[CogitoErgoSometimes]

Sorry... missed the part about you not being able to get hold of lamb. And I always think of the US as a place where everything is available. Don't they have frozen lamb?

[AmericasTorturedBrow]

Not welsh sadly - not that I've found anyway

[KiteKit]

My fav is roast chicken with really crispy skin, breadcrumb and herb stuffing, roast potatoes, carrots, marrowfat peas, cauliflower cheese, gravy

Followed by proper traditional sherry trifle made with jelly!

In fact I would LOVE that dinner right now!!

[kentishgirl]

Yorkies go with anything. My perfect roast would be

Pork with perfect crackling, home made tart apple sauce, roast potatoes,carrots and parsnips, and a couple of green veg like runner beans/cabbage/brocolli/spring greens.

[pregnantpause]

Yorkies only go on a roast or as a hole. The meat doesn't matter

I love pork with crackling, and beef with horseradish but let's be honest- chicken is the king of roast dinner- it's not your poshest so never comes across as try hard, it comes with stuffing, it's definitely the easiest and the smell of roast chicken is home. Can't beat it.

With roasties, carrots, cauliflower cheese, green beans, Yorkshires, stuffing and gravy. Yum

[pregnantpause]

And a an apple crumble or treacle pudding for desert.

[AmericasTorturedBrow]

I'm surprised how many people have cauliflower cheese for a side?

[trixymalixy]

Oh we always have cauliflower cheese as a side. Always have carrots and broccoli too. Sometimes roasted sweet potato and butternut squash.

[pregnantpause]

Cauli cheese in roast sounds wrong, but it's sooo right

[CogitoErgoSometimes]

How about NZ lamb? It's a lot better than it used to be

[Spatial]

If chicken, then carrots, broccoli, roast potatoes and gravy.
If (rare) beef, then carrots, Savoy cabbage, roast potatoes, Yorkshire pudding and gravy. Mustard and horseradish on the side.

Can't bear lamb, and pork IMO is only good pulled, or very slow roasted, not carved and served like a roast IYKWIM.

Pudding should involve pastry or crumble and custard. For example, Apple and blackberry pie, rhubarb crumble, Bakewell tart etc.

[TheNothingGirl]

Yorkies with anything here too! My fave Sunday dinner is roast chicken, roast potatoes (par boiled, drained, fluffed up a bit and cooked in meat fat), savoury cabbage (savoy, bacon bits, onion-stir fried), roasted carrots and parsnips, garlic sausagemeat stuffing with extra onions, yorkshire puds and red wine gravy....I'm starving now lol

[AmericasTorturedBrow]

I'm not sure about NZ lamb - although it has been years and years since I tried it. I'm nervous about over cooking beef. Would love to do pork belly and crackling but again I so often seem to have soggy cracklings that has to stay in the oven way beyond everything else is eaten

[AmericasTorturedBrow]

Ok best stuffing recipes please

[Spatial]

Beef is easy. No faffing about with different oven temperatures .Got some cash to splash get a rib. Room temperature. 220degrees C. Hot, hot oven. Beef on the bone needs 30 mins per kilo (15 mins per 500g), or boned joint 25 mins per kilo. I've cooked it this way for years and it's always perfect - rare in the middle, better done at the ends.

Best stuffing recipe....depends what you like. I like a crunchy one with nuts and apple in. I find dense mainly sausage ones too overpowering with chicken.

[AmericasTorturedBrow]

Yeah I'm not keen on meaty stuffings to be honest (I don't really eat meat or dairy anyway so all this roast meat stuff is for everyone else, I would like to partake of stuffing though)