British

Ploughman's Lunch

Name: Ploughman's Lunch
Total time: 10 min
Yield: 2 servings
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 8 oz sharp cheddar cheese; 4 cooked ham, thick slices; 4 tbsp branston pickle; 2 crusty bread rolls; 1 apple; 1 tbsp butter

Margaret @margaret_yorkshire

Ploughman's Lunch is British home cooking, eaten at lunch. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

10 min Easy

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

8 oz sharp cheddar cheese
4 cooked ham, thick slices
4 tbsp branston pickle
2 crusty bread rolls
1 apple
1 tbsp butter

How to cook it

Cut the cheddar into thick slabs and arrange on plates with the ham.
Split and butter the crusty rolls.
Slice the apple and add to the plate with a generous spoonful of pickle.
Serve at room temperature with the bread alongside.

Watch how to cook Ploughman's Lunch

Someone making it start to finish, so you can see what the steps look like.

How to make a classic Ploughman's lunch - British recipes Play the video

Serve it with

A British lunch is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Ploughman's Lunch, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

What it is eaten with
- British Mashed Potatoes
  
  30 min

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Ploughman's Lunch carries dairy and gluten. It is free of the remaining 8 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Ploughman's Lunch
Allergen	In this dish	Cook this instead
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	Yes	Chicken Salad with New Potatoes
Gluten	Yes	Bubble and Squeak
Shellfish	No
Eggs	No
Soy	No
Fish	No
Sesame	No
Coconut	No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Estimated, per serving

Calories: 720 kcal
Protein: 42 g
Carbs: 48 g
Fat: 40 g
Fiber: 3 g
Sugar: 14 g
Sodium: 1350 mg
Saturated fat: 24 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Ploughman's Lunch takes about 10 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at lunch. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.