Fan-Tested Hairy Bikers Recipes
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 …
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 …