What should go on a roast dinner

[Puddlewoman]

Following on from another thread and the brown sauce debate (not a chance)

What do you put on a roast dinner food and sauces/condiments does it depend on the meat? I will put yorkshires with everything and how many sides are people doing? I usually do honey roast carrots and parsnips but then its just basic boiled brocoli. Is everyone out here doing a cauliflower cheese as well? I saw someone woman on tiktok the other day did something she called creamed kale I've never bothered with a white sauce based veg dish. Plus if you go all out on a sunday roast what do you do to make it special for christmas easter etc.
Also who here is making a Sunday roast every week? I do one approx once a month but not through summer usually and never when we are having a heatwave.

Today we had:
roast chicken
Roast potatoes (freezer)
Potato wedges (freezer)
Roast parsnips (freezer)
Stuffing (freezer)
Yorkshire pudding (freezer)
Microwave carrots, sweetcorn, broccoli mix (freezer)
Gravey (home made, huzzah)

I look forward to the kids being self sufficient enough for proper cooking to take place again.

I just had our roast dinner.

Roast chicken, paxo stuffing mixed with walls sausages, made into balls, roast potatoes, auntbessies carrot and swede, green beans and broccoli all smothered in gravy.

Sorry agree with the rest but cauli cheese does belong!

I often do a roast chicken dinner during the winter. It would typically include:

Roast chicken
Roast potatoes, sometimes plain, sometimes with rosemary and garlic,
Roast carrots
Parmesan Roasted parsnips
Marrowfat peas
Sage & onion stuffing (never sausage meat- can't abide that)
Gravy
Cauliflower cheese sometimes
Cranberry sauce

We rarely do Yorkshire puddings
Never ever sweetcorn or garden peas with a roast either

If you no longer have gravy with roasties because they go soggy then I would sensitivity suggest your roasties are subpar.

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I don't eat meat - so for me I like roast potatoes, mashed potatoes, stuffing, Yorkshire pudding, horse radish sauce, cranberry sauce and gravy. Vegetables - any out of roast parsnips , carrots,
Peas, broccoli etc

Macaroni cheese has no place near a roast dinner. I do like cauliflower cheese or dauphinoise potatoes though .

Roast chicken:
roast and or mashed potatoes
Stuffing
Parsnips (roast)
Broccoli, green beans, carrots
Gravy

Roast Lamb (probably slow roast shoulder)
Roast and or mashed potato
Leeks in white sauce
peas, broccoli, carrots
Gravy
mint sauce, redcurrant jelly

Roast beef (Rib, cooked pink, Christmas only)
Roast and mash potatoes
Yorkshire pudding
Roast parsnips
Green beans, peas, carrots
gravy
horseradish

Gammon
Mash
Veg
Parsley sauce OR cauliflower cheese

Pork
Stuffing
Potato
Veg
gravy
apple sauce

I'm not a huge roast dinner fan tbh and would rather have something lighter - especially in warmer months.

DH does all the cooking as I'm disabled so today he is doing sausages, roast potatoes (I've just tried one and they are beautiful!), peas, sweetcorn and gravy.

Usually it's some sort of joint of meat and he will do potatoes and veg for him and DC and I will have cauliflower cheese or salad. We definitely don't go all out every week though.

Although I now have a craving for Jamie Oliver's braised red cabbage 😂

Oh and horseradish on every meat! I'm obsessed with the stuff!

Standard roast:

Meat - (usually chicken)
Roast potatoes
Mash potatoes
Broccoli / peas / carrots
Stuffing
Cauliflower cheese
Yorkshire pudding

Whatever sauce people want from ketchup to horseradish...

Mine would be ( only have rarely , maybe 6/7 times a year )

Homemade nut roast / or a good vegetarian alternative.
Roast potatoes
Roast parsnips
Brussel sprouts or green cabbage
Carrots
Swede
Yorkshires
Stuffing ( ok to have but not fussed if not )
Peas
Gravy

Salt/pepper . Love english mustard and horseradish sauce .
Lots of mint sauce.

We quite often have non-traditional roasts - e.g. a vaguely Chinese-style roast chicken with noodles, or dh does a lovely one with a creamy lemon and thyme sauce/gravy. All kinds of different veg. If I were doing a more traditional roast, I'd stick with the condiments etc that normally go with them. Yorkshires and horseradish with beef. Redcurrant jelly / mint sauce with lamb etc.

No it doesn’t. Cheese and gravy 🤢. Other than gammon when I would do it instead of gravy.

Yorkshires go with beef, also can’t get my head around chicken, stuffing and Yorkshire pudding. I’ve done them sometimes for visiting children who don’t eat stuffing otherwise no.

We have a roast fairly often, we all like them. Not every week. The veg etc will be what I have in, roast potatoes.

Today for our roast we had:

Chicken
Roast potatoes
Stuffing
Honey glazed carrots
Parsnips
Broccoli
Sweetcorn
Mangetout
Yorkshire puddings
Oodles of gravy.

Finished off with a pavlova.

I have mash on the rare occasion that we have a roast.....I prefer that to roast potatoes.

Pork/chicken - apple sauce
Beef - mustard
Lamb - mint sauce and mustard

My BIL puts mint sauce on any and every roast dinner!

Beef or chicken, roasties, mash, cheesy garlic potatoes, Yorkshire's, at least two veg (broccoli, carrots, peas etc), stuffing,gravy and red sauce

I rarely make a roast dinner these days, but in the past I used to make one every week.

Yorkshire puddings only with beef, served with gravy before the meat course, that's how my Mother always served it.
Vegetables depending on the season, peas in summer, parsnips in winter. Buttered leeks, braised celery, cauliflower cheese etc all are popular here.
I'd never serve sweetcorn with a roast dinner.
Extras such as stuffing, apple sauce, mint sauce, redcurrant sauce, but never brown sauce!
Roast potatoes usually, but occasionally new potatoes with lamb or colcannon with gammon.

If people have 3 types of potato plus Yorkshire puddings with roast chicken is that how the magic mumsnet chicken lasts a week?

I am really finding this thread quite bizarre. Then others saying they prefer ‘lighter meals’. A normal roast isn’t particularly heavy as meals go.

MIL’s roasts are much the same as mine, so it isn’t just me.

We like a roast dinner and they are regular over the autumn to spring.
Last week was roast chicken
Sausage meat stuffing
Mashed swede and carrot with butter
Broccoli
Fluffy roast potatoes
And gravy
Would so love that tonight but stuck at the airport waiting for a delayed flight home.....

Meat
Roast tatos
Yorkshire
Carrots
Broccoli
Cauli cheese

Optional is

Parsnips
Cabbage
Stufing

This is amazing ⭐️

I always do roast potatoes.

Stuffing with chicken and with pork
Crispy onions with lamb
Yorkshire puddings with beef

Parsnips or swedes with everything, but not every time.
Leeks in white sauce with chicken
Cauliflower cheese with gammon or lamb
Carrots with chicken or beef
Green or runner beans are a favourite.
Cabbage or red cabbage with pork, gammon or beef.
Sprouts with chicken or gammon.

Mint sauce with lamb
Horseradish and mustard with beef
Applesauce and mustard or horseradish with pork and gammon.
Bread sauce with chicken.

If I cook veg in a white sauce, I don’t make gravy.

Mine varies.

A roast light would be

meat
roast potatoes
carrots
broccoli
peas
gravy

A regular roast is as above with the addition of Yorkshire pudding and roast parsnips

A good roast is as above with stuffing and creamed leeks. Sometimes the broccoli is subbed for another green veg such as sprouts or cabbage.