11 Authentic (and Simple) Scottish Recipes to Keep Scotland Close to Your Heart!
These Scottish Recipes will bring back memories for those who miss Scotland. I hope these bring you a taste of home and help keep Scotland close to your heart.
If you’re fortunate enough to have been to Scotland, or better yet, used to live there and now live elsewhere, these 11 authentic, and simple Scottish recipes are for you.
(Anyone care to guess why I chose ELEVEN? Ha ha! Freeeeeeedoooooom! Inside joke for Scots.)
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Ex-pats will know what I’m talking about, but I also know there will be some travelers out there who have had a Scottish meal, or particular food that they will crave upon returning home. I am always trying to recreate recipes from my travels, but most of the Scottish recipes here, are the ones I grew up eating.
WARNING: beware of which Scottish recipes you find on the internet. Some sites with Scottish names are simply NOT Scottish at all. 
I am horrified at some of the recipes that I see for Scottish dishes–it’s very sad that people are making them and thinking they’re authentic.
Here’s a classic Scottish soup: Scotch broth.
Luckily, Scottish food is quite simple and so are the recipes. Remember, these are just 11 recipes from my site. I have many more and am constantly adding to the list (I’ve since added a few “bonus” recipes” below! To see all of the Scottish recipes on my site, simply type “Scottish” in the search bar at the top.
Edited January 2019: I’ve just added a list of Scottish recipes for a Burns Night Supper!
Consequently, one of the reasons I started this page is to dispel the myth of “bad British food” and the stereotype of Scots only eating haggis and drinking whisky. I hope this post helps me reach my goal and dispel some of those myths. Scottish fish and chips are on a whole other level, and that’s just one example!
How can anyone say that this food is bland, boring or bad!? And by the way, there’s nothing wrong with a properly prepared haggis, or a good whisky!
Since I’m in Scotland right now, I thought it would be nice to share these with you so that you can enjoy some of the dishes I’ll be enjoying here (sometimes on a daily basis)! I hope you love them, too!
Click on the recipe name or the photos below to see the recipes in full (starting with breakfast dishes and ending with sweets).
11 Authentic (and Simple) Scottish Recipes
3. OATCAKES
4. SCOTTISH RED LENTIL (and BARLEY) SOUP
6. SHORTBREAD
9. CRANACHAN
EDITED Sept. 2021: I’ve added so many more Scottish recipes, so here are some bonus dishes for you!
So there you have it. Eleven (plus!) fabulous and authentic Scottish recipes that are so easy to make. Have you had any of them in the past? Will you be trying any of them in the future? Let me know below!
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Hi Christina! I’m so glad I found your website! We have Scottish ancestors: the Robertson’s, Mackenzie’s, Edward’s, and Lindsay’s. I visited Scotland 4 years ago with my sister and our husbands. We brought back many Scottish kilts, scarfs, and child bagpipes. We’ve decided to hold our own Scottish Highland Games for our children and grandchildren. I’ve been searching the web for some authentic Scottish food to serve and found your site. I look forward to making your recipes. My thoughts for the party are to serve cottage pies in cupcake foil liners, sausage rolls, macaroon bars, and shortbread cookies. Could you please suggest other foods that children would enjoy and that I could make ahead? I have subscribed to your site and look forward to trying your delicious looking recipes. Thanks!
When I was growing up in Scotland my Mum used to make tablet. Not the kind with condensed milk. She used butter, milk and sugar. Does anyone have this recipe.
Hi Fran, this is someone whose recipes I trust. Scottish tablet.
Fritter rolls – like the tatty equivalent of the slice sausage, stays in yer roll and it’s in batter – For you Americans, here whit a fritter is:
1. Find a huge tatty
2. peel said huge tatty
3 slice it into flat slices about 10mm thick
4. par boil (my preference) or don’t, I’m no bothered wit you do to be honest
5. make a thin batter
6 drop the big tatty slices into batter
7. fire up yer chip pan
8. chuck batter covered slices of big tatty into yon chip pan
9. butter a roll
10. take bit tatty out the chip pan, salt MALT vinegar, fire in on the roll, skelp some tomato sauce on it
11 eat it.. turn it sideways, upside doon and back to front, it disnay faw out like chips do..
12. 40 pence from the chippy – chip roll 60 pence – back in the day – drink with chateau barrs red kola
When I was at school (I’m now 54) we had these mad wee pure toffee pastry things, short crust ‘cup’ with a mr whippy looking dod of toffee, covered in custard – minted, always wondered where to fet them
Who remembers a recipe for a Jam Rolly Polly cake that looked like a ‘hard Jam Roll” and had a crumbly consistency and a hard outside?? We used to have it for dessert sometimes, with custard?? Recipes please girls and Dennis?