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When I was growing up Wales wasn't exactly considered a culinary haven, the mere mention of Welsh food conjured up images of pots of cockles, overcooked leeks and the pungent smell of seaweed. The identity of Welsh food in recent years seems to be gaining momentum, with an emphasis on using local and high-quality Welsh produce in restaurants, gastro pubs and in the home, to create Welsh inspired recipes.

The identity of Welsh food in recent years seems to be gaining momentum, with an emphasis on using local and high-quality Welsh produce in restaurants, gastro pubs and in the home, to create Welsh inspired recipes Click To Tweet

I've teamed up with Discover Delicious to bring you some fuss-free Welsh recipes, made using ingredients available from the Discover Delicious website. Discover Delicious want to connect foodies with local food and drink producers, many of them independent and family run businesses. Disclaimer: this is a paid for post by Discover Delicious who did not review, or approve this content.

If you live in the UK you can find Welsh recipe inspiration and buy local and artisan Welsh produce from their website, that Discover Delicious have discovered and sourced for you. Why not search their site and stock your fridge and cupboards with all manner of foodie delights that are reared, grown or crafted in Wales?

Cooking Welsh food

I think it's important to note that I am not a chef. I am somewhat of a chaotic creator of dinner dishes, very often sauce will end up on the walls, I will often forget to buy a vital ingredient and there is the occasional small fire. Therefore, I decided to create relatively simple and tasty Welsh inspired recipes for people like me, the amateur cooking enthusiast, who is also prone to the odd culinary disaster.

Welsh produce

Using many of the Discover Delicious products I have created a starter, main, dessert and drinks that you can make and enjoy at home. I have tried to create relatively straightforward Discover Delicious inspired recipes, that don't require massive amounts of culinary expertise or leave you with loads of obscure leftover ingredients in the cupboard. Turns out there are not many everyday dishes that require French sorrel or lemon basil.

Welsh rarebit in Snowdonia Ale

Starter

Ingredients [Serves 4]

4 slices of high-quality malted bread
25 g plain flour
3 tsp Lea & Perrins Worcestershire Sauce
125ml Snowdonia Ale
200g Caws Cerwyn cheese
1 tsp English mustard
25g unsalted Welsh butter

Firstly you want to preheat your oven to medium heat and immediately pour yourself a large glass of wine, or 'chef's petrol' as I like to call it. Whilst sipping a lovely glass of wine you want to warm up your butter and flour in a pan and then mix it for a few minutes into a sort of paste.

At this point it is going to look like questionable goop, fear not, it will all come together beautifully in the end. Then you want to take the goop off the heat and stir in some lovely Snowdonia Ale, a golden pale ale brewed by Welsh Brewery Purple Moose. Try and buy your malted bread from a local bakery if possible, you'll notice the difference in quality and taste and you'll be supporting a local business. I am a big fan of Pettigrew Bakery in Cardiff, they do some smashing fresh loaves.

I put around 125ml of Ale into the mixture, but feel free to add a little bit more if you would like a slightly boozier rarebit. Now add 3 teaspoons of Lea & Perrins Worcestershire Sauce, 2 teaspoons of mustard and grate some creamy Caws Cerwyn cheese into the mixture, stir well. Toast your bread for a few minutes until it is crispy, then spread your mixture over the top of your bread and cook again for a few minutes until the cheese is deliciously bubbly. If desired, liberally add more cheese on to of your rarebit, I'm not a stickler for exact measurements and I am a firm believer that there is no such thing as 'too much cheese'.

Half shoulder of Welsh Lamb with honey & rosemary

Ingredients [Serves 4]

1.2kg half shoulder of lamb
Handful fresh rosemary
5 tsp honey
Pinch of Halen Môn - Anglesey Sea Salt
2 teaspoons of olive oil
8 small potatoes cut in half
2 red onions cut into quarters
4 Carrots cut into chunks

The thing about a meaty main course is that you want to use the best quality meat you can get your hands on. I used a 1.2kg half shoulder of lamb sourced locally by Discover Delicious from the Hugh Phillips Gower Butcher. With meat this good, you don't want to mask the taste by smothering it with half the contents of your cupboard. Therefore I decided to roast with a simple covering or honey and rosemary, to really bring out the flavour.

Start by preheating your oven to 200C/180C fan, ready to roast your lamb. Then you want to start making small incisions on the skin side of the lamb and rub the oil and salt in, you can also insert rosemary into the slits or place liberally on top. Chop up your vegetables for roasting and place in the tin. I would also add a splash of water to the lamb to keep it nice and moist during the cooking process.

Cooking Welsh Lamb

There is nothing worse than serving up lamb as dry as an old boot of a Sunday, you want meaty perfection darlings! Cover with foil and roast for approximately 2.5 hours, make sure to check on it and baste every 25 minutes. About 30 minutes before the end of cooking time add the honey on top of the lamb, recover and put back in the oven. After 2.5 hours, take the foil off and push the potatoes to the side of the lamb and continue to roast for an extra few minutes until potatoes are crispy and lush.

Serving suggestion Welsh Lamb

Serve with lamb gravy if desired and a lovely bottle of red wine, I recommend a Malbec, one of my favourite reds. If you are going to have a bash at making your own lamb gravy then you will need to try and pour the fat from the roasting tin and then place it on the warm hob. Add 570m of water, a good quality lamb stock cube, a few sprigs of rosemary, a pinch of salt and pepper and 25g of plain flour. Simmer on medium heat and strain before serving to achieve a lovely smooth gravy. Reward yourself with a glass of wine immediately.

Salted caramel and chocolate mousse

Dessert

Ingredients [Serves 4]

4 tbsp Halen Môn Salted Caramel Spread
400g Sarah Bunton Chocolate, broken into pieces
1 tbsp caster sugar
8 eggs, separated
30g unsalted butter
Extra thick double cream and strawberries to serve

Welsh chocolate

When my large Sarah Bunton Chocolate block arrived, I wasn't expecting it to have 'Happy Birthday' inscribed upon it. Indeed, it seemed a shame to break up such a pretty bar of chocolate into chunks for a chocolate mousse recipe. Sarah Bunton is an artisan chocolatier [surely the best job title ever?] based in mid-Wales and her chocolate is absolutely divine. Another key component of this recipe is the deliciously moreish Halen Môn Salted Caramel Spread, which will form the heavenly bottom layer of the mousse.

How to make chocolate mousse

To start you want to break your chocolate into pieces and put it in a bowl over a pan of simmering water, add the butter and melt into a lovely mixture. Whilst the chocolate is melting, separate your eggs and try not to drop yolk all over the kitchen floor as I did. Take the chocolate mixture off the heat and when it has cooled slightly whisk the egg yolks in.

Your next task is to whisk the remaining egg whites in a separate bowl, into foam, then add sugar and whisk again into soft peaks. It was at this point I realised I had bought granulated sugar and not caster sugar. A mini, wine-induced panic ensued and husband and I ended up having to blend the granulated sugar in our smoothie maker to make caster sugar and another potential kitchen disaster was narrowly averted.

Halen Môn Salted Caramel Spread

Stir around a third of the egg whites into the chocolate mixture and then carefully fold the rest in. Now you want to add a layer of Halen Môn Salted Caramel Spread to the bottom of your glass and then add the chocolate mousse on top. Chill in the fridge for an hour and then add a dollop of thick double cream, sliced strawberries and grated chocolate to make your mousse extra tasty and Instagrammable!

Welsh Gin cocktails

Ingredients [Per drink]

50cl Dyfi Original Gin
Juice of 1 lime
15ml Simple syrup
4 strawberries
Strawberry liqueur

How to make gin cocktails

When staging a delectable 3-course meal it is important to serve equally lovely drinks for maximum dining indulgence. Lovely husband Luke is the cocktail guru in our house, so he was tasked with creating a simple gin cocktail using Artisan Welsh Gin, Dyfi Original, which is made with wild Welsh botanicals.

To create this fruity little cocktail you will need to blend strawberries with ice, lime juice and simple syrup in a blender. To make your own simple syrup just heat up equal portions of sugar and water until dissolved and leave to cool. Then strain the mixture into a cocktail shaker that contains several ice cubes, add the gin and strawberry liqueur and 'shake it off' like Taylor Swift. Pour into glass and serve with Dixieland jazz playing in the background.

Welsh Rum Coffee

Ingredients

Cariad Coffee
Barti Rum
Milk/cream/sugar to serve if desired

Welsh Rum

What better way to round the evening off than with a lovely rum coffee? Ideally, you want a good quality coffee and a decent spiced rum, to make a really flavourful cup of coffee. I used ground Cariad Coffee, a smooth blend of lovely, chocolatey tones and Barti Rum, a spiced Welsh rum infused with laver seaweed. Brew your Cariad Coffee in a filter coffee machine and when the coffee is brewed, pour and add a shot of rum to each cup. Add sugar/cream/milk to your coffee is desired and relax after a long day of cooking. You have earnt it!

What do you think of my Welsh inspired recipes post? Would you create Discover Delicious inspired dishes at home? Let me know in the comments below!

This post was sponsored by Discover Delicious.

Pip Jones is a UK travel blogger, freelance writer and travel contributor for BBC Radio. She has been shortlisted for at the Visit Holland Press Awards for Travel Journalism. Also shortlisted for a Vuelio blogging award and the UK Post Office Travel blogger of the year. She can normally be found drinking wine, typing an article and taking a selfie all at the same time.

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Welsh inspired recipes | Welsh dinner menu

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Do you want to create Welsh inspired recipes? Using many of the Discover Delicious products I have created a starter, main, desserts and drinks that you can make and enjoy at home. Try these straightforward Welsh inspired recipes and enjoy a taste of Wales at home!

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These are the companies that produce food in Wales

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Da Mhile Distillery - Teifi Traditional Farmhouse Cheese

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Many of the benefits should already be apparent as to why buying local food is so important. However if you are still not fully convinced here are the top 10 reasons supplied by circleofresponsibility.com: 1. Locally grown food tastes better Food grown in your own community was probably picked within the past day or two.

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https://www.cpre.org.uk/magazine/features/item/4204-why-you-should-buy-and-eat-local-food

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these are the companies I found who produced Welsh products

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Valley Mill | Welsh Slate House Signs | Welsh Handmade Gifts ...

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Natural Products For the Home, Hand Made In Wales

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Traditionally, the cooking styles, traditions and recipes associated with Wales are characterised by simplicity of approach and reliance on the high quality of natural produce - bread, cheese, milk, cream, bolied vegetables, roasted and stewed meats and freshwater and saltwater fish all feature heavily in traditional Welsh food.

So what on earth are faggots and rissoles, and what are they doing on the menu in this curious land where cheese on toast is the national dish, boys pin large onions to their chests once a year, and it's ok to eat seaweed instead of corn flakes?

Faggots probably vie with laverbread as one of the great unknown and probably under-tried foods of Wales. Made from offal, usually liver and perhaps a touch of heart, with herbs, suet and breadcrumbs, these savoury ducks, as they are sometimes called, are not a snack for the gourmand of faint heart or for carrot-chomping vegetarians. Formerly a miner's lunch, the balls of offally delight were served with mushy peas and either chips or mash, dosed with a good squirt of vinegar.

In the Welsh kitchen, it is not just lamb, lamb and more lamb. Opinion may still be split on whether what's more stereotypically Welsh - the rarebit or the roast lamb, but who cares when there is such a huge variety of dishes on offer throughout the small country. Whether traditional fare or award-winning modern cuisine, Wales' reputation for producing and using fine local ingredients is growing - there are hundreds of small and large Welsh farms and companies producing meat, vegetables, cheeses, even wine. Besides, Welsh rarebit, when prepared with care, is more complicated than glorified cheese on toast. With crumbly Caerphilly cheese, and Brains bitter, it can be the perfect appetiser.

The Japanese call it Nori and use it in sushi, and in Wales they call it laverbread, and this sea-speciality is often joined by cockles, in pies and quiches. Seaweed in good for you - it contains the vital minerals potassium, iron and calcium in abundance. Laverbread, or sea lettuce, is one of the edible sea vegetables to have been harvested in South Wales for centuries. Many species of seaweed grow in low water, and shiny black laver is no different, its long locks flowing underwater whilst it lies flat on rocks.

Glamorganshire sausages are an old-fashioned vegetarian version of their porky relative, with leeks and potatoes. Welsh cawl is the filling soup-stew perfect for those rainy Autumn afternoons, originally made from bacon and lamb off cuts, with the national vegetable - the leek, also used to make another popular soup in Wales - leek and potato.

As for desserts - make sure you try some tea bread, or bara brith, and of course a Welsh cake - like a squashed and condensed version of a rock cake, with sugar sprinkled on top. Sometimes eaten with jam or butter on top. Or if you're lucky - both.

There are many regional ice creams to look out for. In Aberystwyth there is honey ice cream, and in Swansea there is the famed Joe's ice cream in Mumbles. In the valleys look out for Mr Creemy, and Thayer's serve soft scoop to the luxury end of the market. Rachel's yoghurts, in West Wales, can lay claim to being one of the first to start on the organic dairy trend, with her range of products featuring cheese, yoghurt and ice cream - in all major supermarkets.

Stop when you drive past a farm shop to pick up local produce, buy regional cheeses when you see them, and go to farmers' markets. Eat out and pick the local speciality. This is only an aperitif "¦ the menu is long. I hope your appetite is whetted.

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Welsh Food | Food In Wales | Wales Cottages

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Traditionally, the cooking styles, traditions and recipes associated with Wales are characterised by simplicity of approach and reliance on the high quality of natural produce - bread, cheese, milk, cream, bolied vegetables, roasted and stewed meats and freshwater and saltwater fish all feature heavily in traditional Welsh food.

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Here is a list of 12 traditional Welsh foods

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Traditional Welsh cakes

Welsh Rarebit

Laverbread

Welsh Cawl

Welsh Cheese

Halen Môn - Anglesey Sea Salt

Conwy mussels

Welsh lamb and beef

Leek

Bara Brith

Welsh chocolate

Glamorgan sausages/ selsig morgannwg

Here is the website I found this from  https://www.dailypost.co.uk/whats-on/12-traditional-welsh-foods-you-12689302

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Companies that produce welsh food- Cariad bakery, Farm and for,k FFERM RIWBOB YNYS MÔN – ANGLESEY RHUBARB FARM, Lodge Apiaries,  Woodlands ice-cream, Pembrokeshire sea salt co, Famers food at home, Pembrokeshire chilli farm, Brooke’s Wye Valley dairy company, Myrddin, heritage Castell Gwyn cheese, Simply welsh cakes, Kind protein  

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Companies that produce welsh food- Cariad bakery, Farm and for,k FFERM RIWBOB YNYS MÔN – ANGLESEY RHUBARB FARM, Lodge Apiaries,  Woodlands ice-cream, Pembrokeshire sea salt co, Famers food at home, Pembrokeshire chilli farm, Brooke’s Wye Valley dairy company, Myrddin, heritage Castell Gwyn cheese, Simply welsh cakes, Kind protein  

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this is the website I used -  https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/howto/guide/top-10-foods-try-wales 

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this is the website I used -  https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/howto/guide/top-10-foods-try-wales 