Fan-Tested Hairy Bikers Recipes
Hairy Bikers ginger biscuits are crisp gingernuts with chopped stem ginger, made by melting golden syrup and butter into self-raising flour and brown sugar. And one batch makes about 24 biscuits of roughly 100 calories each in 25 minutes, from the recipe in Brilliant Bakes. They call the gingernut “a total classic”, but they add …
Homemade treacle ginger cake, black cherries, amaretti, custard and cream are the layers in Hairy Bikers ginger cake trifle, finished with slices of stem ginger. In Ultimate Comfort Food it’s called ginger cake and black cherry trifle, and it makes 8 portions of about 440 calories in roughly 3½ hours. For them, cherries and gingerbread …
Baked rather than steamed, Hairy Bikers sticky ginger pudding is a dark treacle sponge with stem ginger and red chilli, topped with hot toffee sauce. And in Great Curries, where it’s called sticky chilli ginger sponge, it makes 8 portions of about 690 calories in just over an hour. They admit “we’ve even managed to …
Four leg steaks rubbed with lemon, garlic and dried mint roast over new potatoes, broad beans and courgettes for Hairy Bikers lamb steaks. In One Pot Wonders they call it Minty Lamb Steaks, and it gives 4 plates of around 670 calories in about 1½ hours. Lamb steaks are “a really useful cut of meat, …
Curry-spiced egg noodles, roasted pork fillet and prawns make Hairy Bikers Singapore noodles, tossed with red pepper, shiitake and 10 spring onions. And their recipe in Great Curries, also on BBC Food, makes 4 bowls of around 380 calories, ready in roughly 1 hour 10 minutes. In Great Curries, Si and Dave admit its “origins …
Just 2 lamb leg steaks feed 4 in this Hairy Bikers lamb tray bake, roasted over aubergine, pepper, onion and new potatoes with feta. And it’s their Lamb and Aubergine Traybake from Meat Feasts, taking roughly 1 hour 20 minutes at about 435 calories a portion. They say the dish “smacks of sunshine and Greek …
Thin 23cm Yorkshires baked in a hot pan and folded round rare sirloin and onion gravy make these Hairy Bikers Yorkshire pudding wraps. From Route 66, their BBC road trip series, 5 wraps come to about 530 calories each in roughly 1 hour 50 minutes. On their website they admit “we tried to do this …
Dried sage in the batter and sliced onion in each hole make Hairy Bikers sage and onion Yorkshire puddings taste like stuffing and Yorkshire together. And the recipe is from their BBC series Go North, making 12 muffin-tin puddings at about 95 calories each in roughly 1 hour 40 minutes. “We still reckon Dave’s mum’s …
Dave’s mam’s recipe from Mums Know Best makes this Hairy Bikers Yorkshire pudding, with flour, 2 eggs and full-fat milk poured into smoking-hot fat. And I get 12 small puddings from it at about 90 calories each, in about 1 hour 35 minutes including the batter’s hour-long rest. “Dave learned to cook this when he …
Two tins of chickpeas make Hairy Bikers halloumi tray bake a full meal, with red onion, peppers, courgettes, halloumi and tomatoes in one tin. From One Pot Wonders, it serves 4 in about an hour at roughly 470 calories each by my count. In their words it’s a “trayful of Mediterranean magic”, because veg, carbs …