Fan-Tested Hairy Bikers Recipes
For a stuffed Hairy Bikers roast pork loin, a 2kg boned joint is filled with prunes, Bramley apple and sage, then roasted for crackling. And their official website recipe serves 6 at about 870 calories each by my rough sums, in roughly 2 hours 35 minutes. From their 12 Days of Christmas book, it comes …
Hairy Bikers ratatouille isn’t the usual stew, because it’s a salad of griddled aubergine and courgette with roast pepper, tomatoes and olives. And their Mediterranean Adventure version serves 4 at about 245 calories each by my sums, in around 90 minutes. Hairy Bikers admit they’re “not great fans of stewed ratatouille”, so here all the …
Hairy Bikers fish and chips pairs haddock or cod in a crisp real ale batter with chips fried twice at two temperatures. And both are Mums Know Best recipes, together serving 4 at around 1,000 calories each by my rough sums, in 75 minutes. If the oil is right, they say, “the fish will steam …
Hairy Bikers shortcrust pastry rubs 75g of butter and 75g of lard into 300g of plain flour, then binds it with egg and iced water. So the Brilliant Bakes recipe makes about 500g, or 8 portions at roughly 290 calories each, in 45 minutes, both by my sums. Half lard is the twist, because “using …
Hairy Bikers haggis is their Burns Night plate of baked haggis, potato and swede clapshot, and a creamy whisky and mustard sauce. And from their BBC series Food Tour of Britain, it feeds 4 at 1,210 calories each and about 80 minutes, by my sums. BBC Food sums the dish up as “haggis, neeps and …
Hairy Bikers lemon drizzle cake is a buttery loaf flavoured with the zest of 2 lemons, then soaked with lemon juice and granulated sugar. So the Mums Know Best recipe serves 10 at around 335 calories a slice by my sums, taking about 2 hours with setting. Soggy is good here, because “it’s the one …
Hairy Bikers sage and onion stuffing is a simple, traditional mix of soft fried onion, fresh breadcrumbs, sage and lemon zest, bound with an egg. And you’ll find it in their Chicken & Egg cookbook, serving 4 at 130 calories each by my sums, in about an hour. This is one of “two of our …
Hairy Bikers vegetable curry simmers sweet potato, aubergine, mushrooms, cauliflower and peas in a coconut, tomato and curry leaf sauce. And the version in their Great Curries book serves 4 at around 535 calories each by my sums, in about 70 minutes. They reckon vegetable curries are “in no way second best”, since “much of …
Hairy Bikers tiramisu layers coffee-soaked sponge fingers with crushed amaretti, dark chocolate shards and a mascarpone custard lightened with whisked egg whites. And with no oven needed, their Our Family Favourites version feeds 6 at around 685 calories each by my sums, ready in 4½ hours. They swap the usual brandy for rum, “as we …
Hairy Bikers honey and mustard gammon simmers a 2kg joint with vegetables, then roasts it under a glaze of runny honey and English mustard. So the recipe from their Christmas Party special on BBC Two serves 10 in just over 3 hours, at around 325 calories a portion. Billed as “a festive classic” on BBC …