Traditional food of Scotland: 13 dishes

• Haggis · Main dish · Scotland

  Haggis is a savoury pudding of sheep's heart, liver and lungs, minced with oatmeal, onion, suet and spices, and traditionally cooked in the animal's stomach.

• Cullen skink · Soup & stew · Scotland

  Cullen skink is a thick, milky soup of smoked haddock, potatoes and onions from the small fishing town of Cullen on the Moray coast of north-east Scotland.

• Scotch broth · Soup & stew · Scotland

  Scotch broth is a filling soup of barley, lamb or mutton, root vegetables such as carrots and swedes, and dried split peas or lentils, with cabbage and leeks added near the end so they keep their colour.

• Cock-a-leekie · Soup & stew · Scotland

  Cock-a-leekie is a chicken and leek soup, often thickened with a little rice or barley, and traditionally garnished with prunes.

• Cranachan · Dessert · Scotland

  Cranachan is a Scottish dessert of whipped cream, fresh raspberries, toasted oatmeal, honey and whisky, layered in tall glasses.

• Arbroath smokie · Main dish · Scotland

  An Arbroath smokie is a haddock that has been salted overnight, tied in pairs with hemp twine, dried overnight and then hot-smoked over a hardwood fire in a barrel sealed with wet sacks, so it comes out golden brown, cooked through and deeply smoky.

• Stovies · Main dish · Scotland

  Stovies are potatoes stewed slowly in a closed pot with fat, usually dripping, lard or butter, and onions, with a splash of water, stock or milk, until they break down at the edges.

• Shortbread · Dessert · Scotland

  Shortbread is the classic Scottish biscuit: one part sugar, two parts butter and three or four parts flour, with no raising agent, baked pale and crumbly.

• Scottish tablet tablet · Snack · Scotland

  Tablet, taiblet in Scots, is a Scottish sweet made by boiling sugar with condensed milk and butter, boiled to the soft-ball stage and left to crystallise as it cools.

• Forfar bridie bridie · Snack · Scotland

  The bridie is a horseshoe-shaped meat pasty from Forfar in Angus: minced steak with butter and beef suet, seasoned with salt and pepper, folded into pastry and crimped along the edge.

• Dundee cake · Dessert · Scotland

  Dundee cake is a rich Scottish fruit cake of butter, sugar, eggs, sultanas, currants and orange peel, recognisable by its top, which is covered with concentric circles of whole blanched almonds instead of glacé cherries.

• Rowie · Bread & pastry · Scotland

  A rowie, also called a buttery or Aberdeen roll, is a flaky, slightly salty bread roll from Aberdeen, made with flour, butter, lard, salt, sugar and yeast.

• Scotch pie · Snack · Scotland

  The Scotch pie is a small, round, straight-sided pie of hot water crust pastry, about eight centimetres across, traditionally filled with peppery minced mutton, though today usually beef.

Other regions in the United Kingdom

• Traditional food of England: 33 dishes
• Traditional food of Wales: 6 dishes
• Traditional food of Northern Ireland: 4 dishes
• Food of the United Kingdom