UK’s favorite dish is not hen tikka masala any extra – as traditional takes crown
Chicken tikka masala has misplaced its title as Britain’s most beloved ‘national dish’ – with fish and chips regaining the crown.
The spicy dish, invented within the Nineteen Sixties by Bangladeshi chef within the UK, recurrently comes high in polls of our favorite dish. In 2001, former Foreign Secretary Robin Cook – who died in 2005 – declared it a’ true British nationwide dish’.
He stated: “Chicken tikka masala is now a real British nationwide dish, not solely as a result of it’s the most well-liked, however as a result of it’s a excellent illustration of the best way Britain absorbs and adapts exterior influences.
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“Chicken tikka is an Indian dish. The masala sauce was added to satisfy the desire of British people to have their meat served in gravy.”
The dish, nevertheless, has been changed because the nation’s favorite in a wide-ranging ballot of two,000 Brits – who voted for fish and chips to re-take the crown.
The battle for the nation’s tastebuds is recurrently fought over, with roast hen, pie and mash, sausage and mash, shepherd’s pie, spaghetti bolognese battling for high spot alongside tikka masala and fish and chips.
Researchers discovered that hen tikka masala and fish and chips had been high of the tree extra instances than some other dish over the previous 25 years – however that fish and chips was now the clear frontrunner.
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The 2024 vote put fish and chips high, with 44%, adopted by a roast dinner, with 38%, full English, with 23%, pie and mash, 19%, and hen tikka masala simply 9%.
A spokesman for Yorkshire Handmade Pies – to mark the celebration of British Pie Week, which kicks off tomorrow (Monday, March 4) – stated that pies had been ‘flying up the league’, regardless of dropping out to fish and chips this 12 months.
He stated: “Chicken Tikka Masala is no longer the UK’s favourite dish, but the pie industry has really taken off and is now worth £1.65bn, with more than 900 pies entered into the 2023 British Pie Awards.”
James Sturdy, founding father of Yorkshire Handmade Pies stated: “It’s no shock pies have labored their means again into the nation’s hearts to grow to be a agency foodie favorite.
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“Comforting to eat and delicious, when made with quality and local ingredients they can be also elevated into a gourmet dish that can surprise and delight.
“As the cost of living continues to loom, pies are also an affordable luxury treat making them a great option for those who want to indulge.”
In the previous 25 years, fish and chips has come high six instances, beating the 5 instances hen tikka masala got here out high, with the highest dishes over the previous two-and-a-half many years as follows;
- Fish and chips – six titles
- Chicken tikka masala – 5 titles
- Roast dinner – 4 titles
- Pie and mash – three titles
- Full English – three titles
- Shepherd’s pie – two titles
- Sausage and mash – one title
- Spaghetti Bolognese- one title
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