Monday
- Porridge with warm berries and toasted seedscreamy oats · warm berries · toasted seeds
- Leek and potato soupsilky leek and potato · snipped chives · green olive oil
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Scotland: its food, and a week to cook at home.
Oats and barley, soft fruit, beef and lamb from the hills, and fish and shellfish from cold seas. Scottish cooking is warm, filling and built on what the land and sea give.
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What people eat here
Dishes from Scotland
No. 1
Haggis, neeps and tatties
Haggis served with mashed swede (neeps) and mashed potato (tatties) is the meal of Burns Night, held on 25 January, the birthday of the poet Robert Burns.
No. 2
Cullen skink
A thick soup of smoked haddock, potato and onion, named after Cullen, a fishing town on the Moray coast.
No. 3
Cranachan
Whipped cream, raspberries, honey and toasted oats layered in a glass, often with a little whisky. It began as a dish for the end of the harvest.
No. 4
Scotch broth
A slow soup of barley, root vegetables and lamb or mutton, made to last a few days.
What grows here, and when
Summer brings raspberries and strawberries. Autumn and winter bring swede, kale, leeks and potatoes, the base of broths and stews.
Raspberries and strawberries grow well in the long, cool summer days of Perthshire and Angus. The Arbroath smokie, a whole haddock smoked over hardwood, is a protected food name. Oats have been the everyday grain for centuries, in porridge, oatcakes and stuffing.
Seven days, seven menus
A sample week from our recipes
A week to cook at home that suits Scotland and its seasons, using only recipes on this site. Each day reads in the order you eat.
Tuesday
- Smoked mackerel pâté with toastsmoked mackerel · lemon and chive · sourdough toast
- Crisp hake with minty crushed peascrisp-skin hake · minty crushed peas · lemon new potatoes
Wednesday
- Roast chicken thighs with leeks and potatoesgolden chicken thighs · sweet roast leeks · crisp potatoes
- Garlicky spring greens with lemonspring greens · golden garlic · lemon
Thursday
- Pea and mint soupsweet garden peas · fresh mint · olive oil
- Steak with peppercorn sauce and watercressseared sirloin · cracked peppercorn cream · peppery watercress
Friday
- Miso glazed salmon with sesame greenswhite miso glaze · grilled salmon · sesame greens
- Steamed jasmine ricefragrant jasmine rice · steamed under the lid · fluffed with a fork
Saturday
- Tomato and black pepper rasamtamarind broth · cracked black pepper · curry leaf
- Pakistani chicken karahitomato-seared chicken · green chilli · ginger threads
- Jeera rice with toasted cumintoasted cumin · long grain basmati · fresh coriander
Sunday
- Roasted tomato soup with basilslow roasted tomato · sweet garlic · basil oil
- Mushroom ragu with soft polentaslow mushroom ragu · soft golden polenta · rosemary and olive oil
- Apple and blackberry crumblebramley apple and blackberry · golden oat crumble · warm custard
We have no recipe yet for haggis, Cullen skink, cranachan or Scotch broth.
Meal plans that suit Scotland
Cities in Scotland
Facts checked on 27 October 2026.