Fan-Tested Hairy Bikers Recipes
Make Hairy Bikers tuna spaghetti with fresh steaks, not a tin, and you get chilli-crusted tuna with spaghetti, tenderstem broccoli, cherry tomatoes and lemon. Then the numbers: The Hairy Dieters version serves 2 at 472 calories a portion, ready in about 25 minutes. Rather than flaking the fish through a sauce, Si and Dave sear …
Slice a Hairy Bikers scotch egg pie and you find whole boiled eggs in peppery sausage meat, sealed in a lard and butter shortcrust. With Perfect Pies serving it to 6, I make it about 1 hour 20 minutes and roughly 720 calories a slice. Their pitch is “a deconstructed Scotch egg in a pie”, …
For Hairy Bikers mustard mash, 1kg of potatoes is poached until soft, then beaten with warm single cream, butter and 2 tablespoons of grain mustard. With the Mums Know Best recipe serving 6, it takes me about 35 minutes, at roughly 220 calories a portion by my estimate. It sits right after Muriel Bell’s chicken …
In Hairy Bikers poor man’s potatoes, unpeeled Charlottes and shredded fennel fry until crisp at the edges, then take on garlic and sherry vinegar. From Mediterranean Adventure, where it’s called patatas a lo pobre, it feeds 4 in about 35 minutes at roughly 290 calories, my estimate. There’s nothing poor about it for Si and …
These Hairy Bikers beef olives roll thin slices of mustard-spread topside around a bacon and sausage meat stuffing, then braise them in red wine. And the Mums Still Know Best recipe makes 8 rolls for 4 in about 2¾ hours, at roughly 700 calories a portion by my estimate. Two for the price of one …
This big Hairy Bikers tabbouleh piles at least 200g of parsley onto just 50g of bulgur, with chickpeas, rocket and a tahini dressing. And it feeds 4 as a main in 30 minutes, at my estimate of 465 calories a bowl with the feta, from One Pot Wonders. More bulgur isn’t better, because Si and …
One pot of Hairy Bikers tapenade blitzes 200g of black olives with capers, anchovy, garlic, lemon and chilli before the olive oil goes in. With no cooking involved, the Mediterranean Adventure recipe takes about 20 minutes, at roughly 125 calories for each of 8 servings by my estimate. Wrinkled, dry black olives are the ones …
Inside this Hairy Bikers smoked haddock omelette, flaked fish sits in a creamy chive sauce, with reduced-fat Cheddar melting inside the fold. And the Eat to Beat recipe serves 2 to 3, takes me about 30 minutes, and comes to 428 calories a serving for 2. The Savoy Hotel created the original for the novelist …
With this Hairy Bikers baked bean pie, three cheeses melt over steamed potato cubes sitting on two cans of beans and buttery onions. And the Brilliant Bakes recipe serves 4 to 6, while I make it about 55 minutes and roughly 645 calories a portion for 4. Mustard is the one surprise, because Si and …
Chicken thighs carry this Hairy Bikers Brunswick stew, simmered with streaky bacon, tomatoes and potatoes before butterbeans and sweetcorn join for the last 20 minutes. So the Chicken & Egg version feeds 6 to 8 in under 2 hours, at roughly 415 calories each for 6 by my sums. Virginia’s Proclamation Stew Crew made it …