Fan-Tested Hairy Bikers Recipes
Hairy Bikers Moroccan chicken pie is their pastilla, filled with saffron-spiced chicken, soft scrambled egg, dates and ground almonds in buttery filo. And their Chicken & Egg recipe serves 4 in about 2 hours 20 minutes, including cooling, at around 1,000 calories each by my sums. “Pastilla, or bastilla, is a Moroccan pie, which looks …
Hairy Bikers curried chicken pie fills turmeric shortcrust with chicken in a spiced yoghurt and onion sauce, plus spinach, almonds and coriander. And their Brilliant Bakes recipe serves 6 in about 3 hours, with marinating and cooling, at around 700 calories each by my sums. “You can’t beat a chicken pie,” they write, and this …
Hairy Bikers chicken and chorizo pie is their Basque oilasko pastela, with paprika-rubbed thighs, chorizo and peppers in tomato under a crisp pastry lid. So their Big Book of Baking recipe serves 4 to 5 in about 1¾ hours, at 760 calories each for 4 on BBC Food. “Some say that Basque food is the …
Hairy Bikers Caribbean chicken curry is their chicken and pumpkin curry, with skinned thighs marinated in scotch bonnet, lime and allspice, then simmered with pumpkin. So their British Classics recipe feeds 4 in about 3½ hours, including 2 hours of marinating, at around 300 calories each by my sums. They can’t guarantee it’ll make you …
Hairy Bikers chicken curry is a Punjabi recipe from Harjinder, a mum featured in the book, with chicken in a cumin, garlic and ginger tarka. And in Mums Know Best it serves 6 in just over an hour, at around 290 calories each by my sums. Her tarka masala sauce is described as “the base …
Hairy Bikers Cumberland sausage pie is their take on Cumberland pie, with sausage balls simmered in red wine gravy under a cheesy spring onion mash. So the Everyday Winners version feeds 4 in about 1 hour 50 minutes, at around 950 calories a portion by my sums. Cumberland pie “is very similar to shepherd’s pie”, …
Hairy Bikers cod and chorizo stew is the dish they call cod with chorizo and white beans, made all in one pan. So in One Pot Wonders, cod steams over chorizo, cabbage and cannellini, serving 4 in an hour at 425 calories each, by my sums. In the headnote, they write that “chorizo and red …
Hairy Bikers onion gravy is a rich beef gravy of onions caramelised in butter, then simmered with red wine, thyme, bay and beef stock. And their Everyday Winners cookbook version serves 4, taking about an hour at around 170 calories each, by my sums. This version reduces 100ml of red wine by at least two-thirds …
Hairy Bikers Bakewell tart is a raspberry Bakewell: an almond shortcrust case spread with jam, then filled with ground almonds, sugar and six eggs. So the BBC Food recipe makes one 23cm tart, or 10 slices of about 550 calories, in roughly 2 hours by my timings. On BBC Food, their recipe is described as …
This Hairy Bikers roast pork and tumbet is a Spanish roast from Mallorca: spiced pork shoulder with a layered bake of aubergine, courgette and potato. So, with the tumbet doubled, this Mediterranean Adventure meal feeds 8 in about 4 hours at around 1,100 calories each by my sums. For the tumbet, they write that “we …