Is a roast dinner a roast dinner if it hasnt got

[Eliza9917]

Roast potatoes?

Roast meat
Roast potatoes
Veg 1
Veg 2
Stuffing
Yorkshire puddings

Is what makes a roast dinner imo.

Roast meat
Mash
Veg in w/e quantities
Maybe Yorkshire pudding/stuffing

Aibu to think this is not a roast dinner?

‘Is acceptable if’...

If you’ve got roasted meat/ nut loaf it’s a roast regardless if there are roast potatoes or not .. IMO of course !

It has to have roast potatoes, my favourite vegetables - peas and carrots - and gravy.

I could do without stuffing and yorkshire puddings but I would be over the moon if someone gave them to me. Cauliflower cheese is also very welcome and I've belatedly got into parsnips roast in honey. They are a useful dam holding back the gravy from the cauliflower cheese because I agree that cheese and gravy doesn't mix.

I still remember the shame and outrage on roast day at primary school when I asked for a yorkshire to go with my chicken. The dinner lady told me you don't have yorkshires with chicken like she was etiquette expert to the Queen. I said we always had that at home and she laughed at me.

It still burns. She was lucky I didn't tell my mum. I don't know why I didn't. I was a snitch and my mum was known as 'that mum' at school.

Well I’m vegetarian and I love a roast dinner, it’s all about the roast potatoes as far as i’m concerned. Then one green veg and a least one other. And gravy. And a nut roast or some other vegetarian ‘centrepiece’.

No way is white mash acceptable. Sweet potato mash as one of the veg accompanying roast potatoes is acceptable.

ps the worst roast is pork.

Roast Meat/Chicken
Roast potatoes
Mash
Roasted parsnips and carrots
Red cabbage
Green beans
Yorkshire's
Gravy

but I still don't think cheese and gravy should be on the same plate

Eliza9917 you need to try the Canadian unofficial national dish, poutine. It's basically chips, cheese and gravy, and it's wonderful. Even Burger King sell it there.

Roasted quality meat
Roast potatoes
Yorkie pudding (even though I’m a Lancastrian)
Veg
Lashings and lashings of gravy

Dictated by milo the dog, typed by his human mum

ps the worst roast is pork

No! I love roast pork with crackling. And I like mash made with potatoes, which I think is what you mean by white mash. Sweet potato mash is also acceptable in its place but sweet potatoes are not potatoes - they are a very distant relation to the potato. I think it's important to preserve that distinction.

Next thing you'll be saying mashed swedes are potatoes, which would be madness.

Roast dinner needs roast potatoes.

DH and I disagree on the need for peas with a roast dinner. IMO peas have no place in a roast.

Stuffing doesn't belong unless it's at least theoretically possible that it came out of the meat. So de-boned joint rolled around stuffing and roasted, OK. Leg of beef with little stuffing balls on the side, not.

I know they tell you to cook the stuffing separately from the turkey or chicken, but you can transform a piece of meat with an appropriate stuffing.

Mash and gravy is great comfort food. Especially with peas.

It fits in a roast dinner perfectly and you get to make a dam to stop the gravy tipping off the plate

Cow face - totally agree.

the Canadian unofficial national dish, poutine. It's basically chips, cheese and gravy

That does sound good. I'm very unlikely to go to Canada, and probably not just to eat the chips, but if I see it in the UK I'll try it

We’ve just eaten

Roast chicken
Roast potatoes
Stuffing
Cauli cheese
Carrots
Sprouts
Broccoli
Gravy

We only have Yorkshires with beef.

My Mum always did mash and roast potatoes.
I don't bother with mash, but it's definitely not a roast without roasties and Yorkshire puds in my house.

At my in laws it has to have baked beans, same rule applies to Christmas dinner, I'm guessing this is very outing

There are different roast dinner with different accompaniments.

All roasts need a roast meat or veggie equivalent. Most would be very disappointed with roast potatoes and gravy is almost always served unless it's a small meal and no-one likes it.

Beef - yorkshires and horseradish sauce
CHicken - stuffing
TUrkey - stuffing, pigs in blankets and cranberry sauce
Lamb- mint sauce
pork - cracklings and apple sauce

Lots of people love yorkshires or one of the sauces and have it with all roasts, but I don't think you could be surprised if you didn't get yorkshires with chicken or meats other than beef.

I'd say you'd want 2 veg but am flexible on what they are. More choice of veg always good - can be roasted veg, carrots, peas, broccoli,cheesy leeks, cauliflower cheese, green beans, sweet potato mash,msweets mash.....whatever you like really.

Fine to have mash or boiled potatoes as extras. Most visitors would be disappointed if they were instead of roast potatoes though.

And for me, the meat is my least favourite part. Would never say 'no' to pigs in blankets though!

Cauliflower, lightly boiled or steamed, is lovely as a veg with a roast.
Cauliflower cheese is a separate meal, best with broad beans and boiled new potatoes.
Like others I baulk at cheese sauce and gravy. I think it probably started in restaurants as a way to use up leftover cauliflower cheese. It also disguises manky caulis.

What about other countries that do roast dinners but don’t tend to have roast potatoes? Or Yorkshire pudding? Can their roast dinners truly qualify as roast dinners?

Went to a restaurant last year and dd threw a complete wobbler as the cauliflower cheese touched the gravy.

Stuffing and yorkshire puddings should not ever appear in the same meal. Either you're having pork or chicken, in which case stuffing is appropriate, or you're having beef (or possibly lamb), in which case yorkshire puddings are appropriate.

I would side-eye a roast dinner without roast potatoes, but I wouldn't say it was absolutely disqualified.

Roasted chicken or pork with mash is nicer than with roast potatoes, IMO , if the gravy is good. Little new potatoes, semi squashed and roasted with olive oil, garlic and rosemary ( Delia? Jamie? ) with lamb. Roast beef maybe roast potatoes but probably no potatoes at all but definitely Yorkshires.

We only really have roast potatoes with the Xmas turkey and it’s the roasted parsnips that everyone really likes.

No.

Roast dinners have roast potatoes.

Nope, that's a disappointment not a roast.