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.

It's not amazing, although thank you for saying so

Just chuck in whatever you've got lying around and hey presto!

Chicken here with yorkshire's ( I know it's not traditional but we love them with anything!), peas, carrots and green beans with roast potatoes and homemade gravy. I usually do cauliflower cheese too but ran out of cheese so they will have to survive without!

I generally do a basic roast.

Chicken, mash, carrots, parsnips, mashed suede and roasted onion.

Always have gravy and mint sauce!

My ultimate roast though would be all that and cheesy leeks, steamed white cabbage and yorkies and stuffing.

It's just a lot to cook when there's only ds and me at home and he has peas and broccoli instead of suede and onion!

I make a roast every week, it's our favourite meal. If we're out on a Sunday I'll often do it on the Monday to make up for it.

We have-
Meat (beef,chicken,lamb)
Roast potatoes
Mashed potato
Yorkshire puds
Honey roast carrots
Peas
Gravy
Mint sauce (meat dependent)
Occasional other veg

I always do everything homemade, especially gravy and Yorkshire's. OP are you opening the door during the cooking time? That will flatten them.

Cauliflower cheese I'm always add when I go out for a roast but I can't be arsed making it at home. It really does make the roast perfect tho

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Macaroni cheese, rice and peas are fairly standard accompaniments to a Sunday roast for people of Caribbean heritage

yorkshire with beef only, stuffing with chicken. roast potatoes, green beans or spring greens, carrots and peas. home made gravy

Always broccoli because the broccoli water is essential to the gravy.
Potatoes roasted in skins - criss cross, drizzle with olive oil and salt - no need for preboiling etc.
Peas or sweetcorn - zap in microwave.
Sometimes an oven roasted veg - cauliflower cheese (shop bought); or parsnips or courgettes depending on meat, who's eating.
Yorkshire pudding homemade usually only with roast beef, but not hardover on using shop bought if anyone wants with chicken or pork.
Mustard, horseradish for beef.
Very lazy roaster here - and get freaked out and overheated if too many pans of boiling water are required.
Don't do peeling or mashing!

I do about 2 roasts a week. I will always have meat, potatoes, veg, stuffing, gravy. Sometimes I'll make it a bit more special and do Yorkshire puddings, cauliflower cheese, pigs in blankets and mash depending on the occasion or if I can be bothered.

And the veg I do midweek is either frozen or even tinned for a quick roast.

For me a roast is just meat, roast potatoes, veg, and obviously gravy. Veg would be standard peas and carrots. Sometimes roast parsnips, sometimes cabbage/kale. I normally do a yorkshire but not always, and sometimes a stuffing but again not always.

Brocoli does not belong. Neither does sweetcorn. Both are vile with gravy. Anything cheese sauce based is wrong on two accounts 1)too filling and takes up space that could be filled with delicious roasties 2)again cheese sauce and gravy is wrong

Mash again is wasted. Too much effort, and extra washing up when roasties are nicer.

I might do a mashed swede maybe in winter.

Too many side dishes personally I feel is a waste. Everything gets mushed together which is a bit gross and you can't really enjoy the flavours. And then it's loads of prep and washing up for me to take about 2 bites of each dish.

Beef, lamb or chicken normally
Roast potatoes
3 veg and YES THIS COULD INCLUDE cauliflower cheese, otherwise a default

Peas , carrots , green beans, broccoli
Always yorkshire puds
Gravy
Sometimes if I'm doing the cauliflower cheese then I go all out including cauliflower/ broccoli cheese and rosemary, garlic potatoes , pigs in blankets
Normally Christmas day tho

There is cauliflower cheese at the local Sunday carvery, not Toby , so it's definitely a thing

I only do roasts in the winter. Not every week these days.

Usually chicken/ sausage. Sometimes lamb/ mint sauce, pork/ apple, or beef/ horseradish.

Always: Yorkies, roast potatoes, sweetcorn, broccoli, carrots, gravy.

Then a section from: spiced red cabbage, cauliflower cheese, roasted kale with salt, Brussels and chestnuts, leeks with butter and black pepper, roast parsnips, mashed carrot and swede, stuffing balls, peas, nut roast.

At Christmas I cook all of them. I LOVE Christmas.

@Teateaandmoretea yes! Our chicken lasts us several meals because it gets served with loads of veg. I use up some of the leftover meat and veg in soups and curries during the week. And some gets plated up and frozen for mini roasts that can be microwaved for quick midweek meals.

I do a roast maybe once a month in winter, never in summer.

I break all of Mum’s rules. I only eat chicken or very occasionally gammon, so never do any other meat. Yorkshires & stuffing always. Horseradish sauce AND cranberry sauce <yum>. If I’m feeling greedy for carbs, I make roast AND mashed potatoes. I also do a Caribbean version with rice & peas, stewed red peas and fried plantain alongside the traditional Brit sides.

Veggies I’m flexible on. Sometimes roast parsnips and carrots, sometimes just steamed carrots. Sometimes cauliflower, red cabbage, green beans. Always peas and broccoli.

My Mum used to do a roast every week, rotating chicken (with stuffing & redcurrant helly), beef (with Yorkshire puddings & horseradish sauce), lamb (with mint sauce) and pork (with apple sauce).

I do meat, roasted potatoes, roasted veg (sweet potatoes, parsnips, carrots, sometimes onion. Then green beans or broccoli and sometimes cauliflower cheese

Gravy with all meats then horseradish with beef and maybe also onion sauce, Yorkshire pudding
Apple sauce with pork and sage and onion stuffing
Bread sauce and stuffing with chicken

And.mint sauce with lamb

Just finished eating ours - today it was pork medallions (I can't stand fat on meat), roast potatoes, broccoli, cauli, Carrots and green beans, Yorkshire puddings and gravy (bisto best!)

I tend to do the same veg and sides no matter which meat.

People who only have Yorkshires with beef - why deprive yourself the joy?! Can't relate 😂

For Xmas I'll do pigs in Blankets, sprouts with bacon and chestnuts, roast parsnips. I always want to fancy it up a bit but never bothered before because I'd always be working shifts around Xmas and only cook for me and DH.

This is the first year I'll definitely be off over Xmas so I might start looking for ideas!

Today I cooked beef with
roast potatoes (finished in air fryer)
garlic and onion mash (after mashing put into oven to brown off)
yorkshire puddings
pigs in blankets (all my family love them)
green beans
parsnips and carrots cooked in honey
gravy
with horseradish

Meat (beef or chicken)
stuffing
roast potato
Boiled carrot
Steamed broccoli & cabbage
roast honeyed parsnips
buttered leeks
cauliflower cheese
Proper gravy
yorkshire puds
bread sauce
mustard/rowan jelly

this is the ideal dinner but any combination of the above is lovely

Always mash,roasties and Yorkshire puddings.
I like mint sauce on beef and chicken aswell as lamb

Some of these are weird and a few are just plain wrong.