Fan-Tested Hairy Bikers Recipes
This date slice recipe sandwiches a thick paste of dates, coffee, vanilla and cinnamon between an oaty wholemeal base and a crumbly topping. And it cuts into 8 generous slices of roughly 450 calories, taking about 2½ hours, though most of that is cooling. The coffee is the surprise here, because a splash of it …
This Hairy Bikers bread rolls recipe needs just strong flour, fast-action yeast, salt, a tablespoon of sugar, honey or malt extract and tepid water. So Brilliant Bakes makes 8 to 16 from it, and I cut 12 at about 155 calories a roll, in roughly 4 hours, mostly waiting. A freshly baked roll is, to …
This prawn puri recipe spoons cooked prawns in a quick tomato, chilli, ginger and lemon sauce onto big homemade puris, fried until puffed. So 6 people get roughly 390 calories a plate, and the hour it takes goes mostly on rolling and frying the bread. Prawn puri, spelled poori or even puree on some takeaway …
This lamb shashlik recipe soaks cubes of lamb shoulder in white wine, cider vinegar, onion, garlic and bay before searing them on skewers. So it feeds 4 to 6, at about 550 calories each across 6 servings with both sauces, and takes 2 hours 50 minutes including marinating. Shashlik is the kebab of Eastern Europe …
This lamb tikka recipe marinates cubes of lamb leg in yoghurt, garlic, ginger and freshly toasted spices, then grills them on skewers until charred. So 400g of lamb serves 6 as a starter at about 145 calories a serving, with 20 minutes’ work plus at least 6 hours marinating. Unlike lamb tikka curry, these are …
This Greggs-style steak bake recipe wraps finely chopped braising steak in a red wine, mustard and onion gravy, sealed inside egg-glazed puff pastry. So it makes 4 big bakes at about 610 calories a bake, in roughly 3 hours 40 with an hour of chilling the filling. Here you get a homemade take on the …
Parched peas are carlin peas, also called black peas, simmered in stock with cider vinegar until starchy, then eaten with salt and malt vinegar. So 500g of cooked peas serves 4 at about 170 calories a mug in 25 minutes, or add a soak and 45 minutes from dried. North East families eat them on …
Milk jelly is a packet of orange or strawberry jelly melted in just-boiled water to the 200ml mark, then set with milk over tinned fruit. So split 4 ways it comes to about 205 calories a bowl, after 15 minutes of work and 4 to 6 hours chilling. It was a kids’ favourite in the …
Hairy Bikers Dutch apple cake is a whisked butter sponge baked in a shallow dish under thin Bramley slices, flaked almonds and cinnamon sugar. And their Big Book of Baking recipe serves 8 to 12, while I make it 65 minutes and 405 calories a slice cut 10 ways. They ate it at a bakery …
Roast venison haunch is a boned, rolled back leg of deer rubbed with juniper and pepper, then topped with streaky bacon and served with quince. So a 2kg joint feeds at least 8 people at about 440 calories a serving, and I allow just over 2 hours for medium-rare. It starts with 20 minutes at …