We have the best Yorkshire Pudding Recipe to add to your list of make ahead dinner party recipes! Our traditional Yorkshire pudding recipe is always a hit with guests, tailor-made to complement any dish with a tasty sauce or gravy, especially stew.
Yorkshire puddings even make a delicious brunch with your favorite jam or clotted cream! The list of what you can serve these puddings with is never-ending!
What is Yorkshire Pudding?
Yorkshire pudding is a popular English side dish made from a batter of flour, eggs, and milk (or water). Traditionally, you pair Yorkshire puddings with gravy of any kind.
English Yorkshire puddings are very similar to American popovers. In fact, the primary difference is simply in how they cook! Yorkshire puddings typically cook with pan drippings from a beef roast, like our Slow Cooker Chuck Roast, while popover recipes bake in molds like a muffin tin and do not cook in drippings.
Cooking in the pan drippings of a beef chuck roast means making the gravy to fill them with is even easier, too! You can make Slow Cooker Beef Gravy right along with the roast that pairs deliciously with traditional Yorkshire pudding. Yorkshire puddings are meant to be filled, and homemade beef gravy is the best way to do it!
Yorkshire Pudding Ingredients
We like to keep our puddings simple with common ingredients, like the Yorkshire pudding recipe Jamie Oliver makes. It is more like a traditional Yorkshire pudding recipe that way, and that much easier. You will most likely already have most of these ingredients on hand, if not all of them!
- 4 large eggs at room temperature
- 3 1/4 cups whole milk
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 1/2 teaspoons salt coarse
- 1/4 teaspoon black pepper freshly ground
- 4 tablespoons pan drippings reserved from beef roast, or 4 tablespoons of vegetable oil
You have plenty of options when it comes to a beef roast for drippings! While you can use vegetable oil, we really recommend pan drippings. Plus, these Yorkshire puddings pair deliciously with roast beef recipes of all kinds, and you can make the gravy with the beef for an easy, complete meal.
Here are some more suggestions (in addition to the one above our ingredients list) for roast beef recipes to make for pan drippings:
- Slow Roasted Prime Rib Recipe
- Whole Beef Tenderloin Recipe
- Standing Rib Roast Recipe
- Dutch Oven Pot Roast
- Instant Pot Pot Roast
- Beef Chuck Roast Recipe
- Boneless Prime Rib Roast
- Easy Slow Cooker Roast Beef Recipe
How to Make Yorkshire Puddings
This easy Yorkshire pudding recipe will net you either 12 luscious, eggy popovers you can enjoy for days, or an individual pudding you can bake in a 9×13″ pan. Whichever way you prefer to make them, follow the directions below for how to make Yorkshire puddings.
Making Yorkshire Pudding: Batch of 12
- Preheat the oven to 400°F. Place a sheet pan below the rack you’re using for the puddings to catch any overflow.
- Place the eggs, milk, flour, salt, and pepper in a blender, and blend on high until the mixture resembles heavy cream. This can be done several hours in advance.
- Pour a bit of pan drippings (or vegetable oil) into each popover cup, just enough to cover the bottom. Heat in oven for 2 minutes.
- Quickly and carefully pour the batter into the preheated cups, filling each about halfway.
- Put directly in the oven and DO NOT open the door. Keep the light on to watch what’s going on in there! You DO NOT need to open the door to check on them, and should not, we promise!
- Bake until puffed and golden brown, about 30 minutes (Yorkshire puddings will puff to the highest height, but not until the last 10 minutes of cooking time, so don’t worry if they don’t rise sooner than that).
Making Yorkshire Pudding: Large Individual Pudding
This batter will also bake beautifully in one 9×13″ pan. Preheat the oven to 400°F, add a couple of tablespoons of beef drippings or vegetable oil to the pan, and pour in the batter. Bake as directed above.
Yorkshire Pudding Recipe Notes
- If you do not have a popover tin, you can make this recipe for Yorkshire pudding in muffin tins.
- While we highly recommend using pan drippings from roast beef, you can also substitute another fat of your choice or use vegetable oil as listed in the ingredients.
- Traditional Yorkshire pudding filling consists of gravy, but these puddings are versatile! Try serving them with jam for brunch or even with Garlic Herb Butter. There are many different ways to enjoy them!
- The secret to the highest puffiest popovers is to have the batter at room temperature and to preheat the greased pan so that when the batter hits, the rise begins immediately (though you won’t see it right away).
- I double the batter to bake a second batch as soon as I pull the first out of the oven. It’s that delicious!
Make ahead Yorkshire pudding is perfect for holiday meals or your Sunday dinner ideas! Have you had these traditional Yorkshire puddings yet? Let us know in the comments below and with a rating! We love to hear from you.
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For more make ahead dinner party recipes, give these a try:
- Gluten Free Rolls or Gluten Free Biscuits
- Gluten Free Au Gratin Potatoes
- Baked Creamed Corn Casserole
- Gluten Free Stuffing
- Irish Mashed Potatoes
- Slow Cooker Applesauce
Yorkshire Pudding
Ingredients
- 4 large eggs at room temperature
- 3 1/4 cups whole milk
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 1/2 teaspoons salt coarse
- 1/4 teaspoon black pepper freshly ground
- 4 tablespoons pan drippings or 4 tablespoons of vegetable oil reserved from the beef roast. See note #4
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 400° F. Place a sheet pan below the rack you're using for the Yorkies to catch any overflow.
- Place the eggs, milk, flour, salt, and pepper in a blender and blend on high until the mixture is combined and resembles heavy cream. (This can be done several hours in advance.)
- Pour a bit of drippings or vegetable oil into each popover cup, just enough to cover the bottom. Heat in oven for 2 minutes.
- Quickly and carefully pour the batter into the preheated cups, filling each about halfway.
- Put directly in the oven and do not open the door; keep the light on to watch what’s going on in there!
- Bake until puffed and golden brown, about 30 minutes (the Yorkies will puff to the highest height, but not until the last 10 minutes of cooking time.)
- Serve immediately.
To Make One Big Pudding:
- This batter will also bake beautifully in one 9-by-13 inch pan. Preheat the oven to 400° F, add a couple of tablespoons of beef fat or vegetable oil to the pan, and pour in the batter. Bake as directed above.
Notes
- If you don’t use all the yorkshire pudding batter, you can refrigerate it overnight. Make a batch in the morning for a fresh-baked addition to leftovers. Muffin tins will work just fine, but for the deepest, largest puffed beauties, get a popover pan.
- The secret to the highest puffiest popovers is to have the batter at room temperature and to preheat the greased pan so that when the batter hits, the rise begins immediately (though you won’t see it right away.
- If you don’t have a popover pan, you can substitute a muffin.
Nutrition
This recipe is adapted from Jamie Oliver’s Yorkshire Pudding Recipe
This post was updated on October 4th, 2019.
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