Sheffield: its food, and a week to cook at home.

A steel city on seven hills, at the edge of the Peak District, with its own sauce.

The photograph is AI-generated.

What people eat here

Dishes from Sheffield

No. 1

A thin, spicy brown sauce made in Sheffield since 1885. Locals shake it on pies, chips and stews.

No. 2

Baked in very hot fat, served with the Sunday roast.

No. 3

A meat pie with mushy peas, often with a splash of Henderson's.

No. 4

A sticky oat and treacle ginger cake for Bonfire Night.

Lamb from the Peak in spring and summer. Leeks, potatoes and swede through winter.

The Peak District's hill farms, just west of the city, raise sheep and cattle. The farmland to the east grows grain and potatoes.

Seven days, seven menus

A week to cook at home that suits Sheffield and its seasons, using only recipes on this site. Each day reads in the order you eat.

Monday
- Full veggie breakfast traybakepaprika potatoes · roast mushrooms · blistered vine tomatoes
Tuesday
- Pea and mint soupsweet garden peas · fresh mint · olive oil
- Jacket potatoes with smoky homemade beanscrisp jacket potato · smoky tomato beans · chives
Wednesday
- Roast chicken thighs with leeks and potatoesgolden chicken thighs · sweet roast leeks · crisp potatoes
- Crisp roast potatoes with rosemary and garliccrackled roast potatoes · rosemary · soft roasted garlic
Thursday
- Rajma, Punjabi kidney bean curryslow cooked kidney beans · tomato and ginger · kasuri methi
- Jeera rice with toasted cumintoasted cumin · long grain basmati · fresh coriander
Friday
- Crisp hake with minty crushed peascrisp-skin hake · minty crushed peas · lemon new potatoes
Saturday
- Ghanaian groundnut stew with rice ballspeanut and tomato broth · sweet potato · rice balls
Sunday
- Leek and potato soupsilky leek and potato · snipped chives · green olive oil
- Steak with peppercorn sauce and watercressseared sirloin · cracked peppercorn cream · peppery watercress
- Golden syrup oat flapjacksgolden oats · golden syrup · chewy bars