To rejoice Nationwide Pie Day (twenty third January), recipe field supply firm HelloFresh has revealed the UK’s prime 10 favorite pies.

Pies are one of many UK’s nationwide dishes. With a love for crispy toppings and scrumptious fillings, the UK has perfected quite a lot of pies, from savoury steak and ale to cheese and onion.

Analysing the typical variety of searches per 30 days, the information reveals that though conventional pie’s take the highest spots, fish pie at third with 40,500 month-to-month searches and hen and leek at fourth with 22,200 suggests Brits tastes could possibly be evolving, choosing new flavours over pub classics like steak and ale pie.

The info reveals that cottage pie and shepherd’s pie are ranked because the UK’s joint favorite pies with over 90,000 month-to-month searches.

The highest three favorite pies are conventional dinnertime staples which were round for a whole lot of years; nonetheless, they don’t take the type of a typical pastry pie. In actual fact, shepherd’s pie, cottage pie, and fish pie all embody a layer of mashed potatoes as their topping.

Cottage and shepherd’s pies accounted for 54% of the general month-to-month searches for the highest 10 pies within the UK, exhibiting that Brits nonetheless have a style for traditional consolation meals.

There’s a typical false impression between shepherd’s pie and cottage pie, with the straightforward distinction that shepherd’s pie makes use of lamb and cottage pie makes use of beef. 

However are the 2 hottest British pies even pies anyway? Some argue that they’re in truth potato-topped casseroles, which might doubtlessly spark an awesome pie debate forward of Nationwide Pie Day.

We are able to solely think about that almost all of Brits would dismiss any try to vary their thoughts on the matter, as pies are an enormous deal to most within the UK.

Relating to traditional pastry pies, classics like hen pie, steak and ale pie and pork pie are all featured within the prime 10.

Popping out on prime was cheese and onion pie with 9,900 month-to-month searches, adopted by homity pie, which is stuffed with potato, leeks, and onions.

Most cheese and onion pie recipes include Lancashire cheese, indicating an origin within the North West of England, whereas homity pie is believed to be from the South West coast, as additionally it is generally known as the ‘Devon pie’. Homity pie grew to become a go-to dish when vegetarianism began to realize reputation within the Sixties.

Pies are a good way to check out new flavours or benefit from leftovers and this checklist of vegetarian pies consists of some killer mixtures, together with spinach and feta and spinach and ricotta.

HelloFresh recipe improvement supervisor Mimi Morley mentioned: “It’s no shock shepherd’s pie and cottage pie are nonetheless so fashionable as staple consolation meals. If you wish to increase your vegetable consumption, strive incorporating root greens in your potato topping for added vitamins or swapping regular potatoes for candy potatoes.

“For a change on a conventional pie, strive including an Indian-inspired twist on a traditional with a curried paneer pie.

“For a vegetarian tackle shepherd’s pie, exchange minced lamb with lentils and your favorite greens for a scrumptious dinner full of protein.”

Tuck into one in every of HelloFresh’s pie recipes this Nationwide Pie Day, together with Hen Pie, Curried Paneer Dahl Pie or their very personal Shepherd’s Pie.