British

Welsh Rarebit

Name: Welsh Rarebit
Total time: 20 min
Yield: 2 servings
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 2 cups shredded cheddar; 2 tbsp butter; 1 tbsp all purpose flour; 1/2 cup milk; 1 tsp mustard powder; 4 slices sandwich bread; 1/4 tsp black pepper

Margaret @margaret_yorkshire

Welsh Rarebit 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.

20 min Medium Vegetarian Pescatarian

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

2 cups shredded cheddar
2 tbsp butter
1 tbsp all purpose flour
1/2 cup milk
1 tsp mustard powder
4 slices sandwich bread
1/4 tsp black pepper

How to cook it

Melt the butter in a small saucepan and whisk in the flour, cooking for a minute.
Gradually whisk in the milk and simmer until thickened, about 3 minutes.
Remove from the heat and stir in the cheddar and mustard powder until melted and smooth, then season with pepper.
Toast the bread and heat the oven grill (broiler) to high.
Spread the cheese mixture thickly over the toast, place on a tray, and grill until bubbling and golden, about 3 minutes.
Serve hot.

Watch how to cook Welsh Rarebit

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

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Serve it with

A British lunch is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Welsh Rarebit, 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. Welsh Rarebit carries dairy and gluten. It is free of the remaining 8 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Welsh Rarebit
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: 700 kcal
Protein: 34 g
Carbs: 32 g
Fat: 48 g
Fiber: 2 g
Sugar: 5 g
Sodium: 1110 mg
Saturated fat: 30 g

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

When to cook it

Welsh Rarebit takes about 20 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at lunch. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.