Fan-Tested Hairy Bikers Recipes
Five cauliflower cheese recipes sit across five Hairy Bikers cookbooks, and this one from Chicken and Egg is the version I always come back to. It bakes golden in about 50 minutes at around 310 calories, so it works as an easy comfort food side for four to six. Si and Dave write in British …
This Hairy Bikers leek and potato soup recipe uses milk instead of cream, so you get a lighter bowl at around 215 calories a serving. And it feeds four in about 40 minutes, which makes it an easy midweek lunch with bread and butter. I have cooked through the entire Hairy Bikers cookbook collection, and …
This Hairy Bikers beef stifado recipe is a slow-braised Greek beef stew of chuck steak and whole pickling onions in spiced red wine. And it comes from Meat Feasts, feeding six at about 510 calories a serving, with roughly 2 hours 30 minutes total. Si and Dave note that stifado “always contains loads of little …
Every other meatball recipe on this site mixes the meat by hand, but this Hairy Bikers kofta curry blitzes the lamb in a food processor with garam masala, green chillies, and ginger. The paste marinates overnight, and that long chill is what the headnote calls the secret to “golden balls of heaven.” The sauce gets …
Aubergine is the base of these Hairy Bikers veggie meatballs from Veggie Feasts, not lentils or beans like most vegetarian meatball recipes use. Finely diced aubergine gets browned with onion and tapenade, then mixed with cheese, smoked paprika, and toasted pine nuts before baking at 200°C. The headnote says “the aubergine gives them a good …
Seven spices in a meatball recipe sounds like overkill until you realise this version from Mediterranean Adventure follows Moorish cooking traditions. So these Hairy Bikers Spanish meatballs use lamb with cinnamon, cardamom, cumin, and cayenne, and the dish serves 4 to 6 at around 465 calories. Every Spanish meatball recipe online uses pork or beef, …
Four anchovy fillets in a meatball recipe sounds wrong until you taste what they do to 600g of pork mince. They dissolve during baking and add a salty depth that makes these Hairy Bikers Swedish meatballs from British Classics better than anything from a flat-pack furniture store. It serves 4 to 6 at around 440 …
These Hairy Bikers Italian meatballs in tomato sauce come from the Hairy Dieters and land at just 282 calories per serving. The recipe makes 24 small balls in a chunky red wine tomato sauce, and it feeds 4 without tasting like diet food. Grated carrot in the mince is the detail that separates this from …
Hairy Bikers spaghetti and meatballs from Everyday Winners uses pork mince with pine nuts and lemon zest, which gives each ball a crunch and freshness most recipes miss. The meatballs bake while the tomato sauce simmers, so everything comes together in about an hour and serves 4 at around 680 calories. Most spaghetti and meatball …
This Hairy Bikers pease pudding from Meat Feasts uses the traditional muslin method where blitzed split peas get wrapped and simmered in stock for over an hour. It serves 6 at around 250 calories with butter, nutmeg, and a beaten egg folded through before the cloth goes on. The headnote says “split peas and bacon …