Fan-Tested Hairy Bikers Recipes
Hairy Bikers beef recipes from the cookbooks, from stews and steak pies to stroganoff and braising steak, each one traced to the book it came from.
Most beef stroganoff recipes start with paprika, but this Hairy Bikers version skips it entirely and uses Dijon mustard and brandy instead. The 600g of fillet steak cooks in about a minute, so the whole dish is ready in under 25 minutes at around 400 kcal. The Meat Feasts cookbook calls this “a fast version …
A full bottle of red wine goes into this Hairy Bikers beef bourguignon, and you can taste every drop in the finished sauce. The 1.6kg of well-marbled chuck braises with it for about three hours alongside bacon lardons, baby onions, and mushrooms, serving 6 at around 700 kcal. Well-marbled beef is non-negotiable here, and the …
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 …
This Hairy Bikers beef lasagne recipe from British Classics drops the béchamel and layers ricotta, mozzarella, and Parmesan between the sheets instead at around 780 calories per serving. It takes about two and a half hours with a one-hour stovetop ragù and a 45-minute bake, and the three-cheese swap means one fewer saucepan to wash. …
Four tablespoons of paprika in a single pot of soup sounds like a mistake, but this Hairy Bikers goulash soup recipe from the Big Book of Baking needs every gram. Si and Dave brought it back from Hungary on the Bakeation series at around 390 calories per serving and just under three hours of slow …
Most goulash recipes you find online skip the dumplings, but this Hairy Bikers Hungarian goulash recipe from One Pot Wonders puts them front and centre. Braising steak simmers with sweet and hot paprika for nearly two hours at 525 calories per serving, so the meat falls apart before the suet dumplings even hit the pot. …
Hairy Bikers chilli salad bowls are spiced beef mince in crispy baked tortilla bowls with lettuce, tomatoes, Cheddar, and crème fraîche, and they come from The Hairy Dieters cookbook at 397 calories. The whole thing takes about 40 minutes since the tortilla bowls bake while the chilli simmers. Si and Dave call this “one of …
Hairy Bikers chilli con carne is a slow-cooked beef chilli with both mince and diced braising steak, three types of chilli heat, and dark chocolate stirred in at the end. It comes from Meat Feasts and feeds 6-8 in about three hours with kidney beans and black-eyed beans in a rich spiced sauce. Si and …
This Hairy Bikers cottage pie from Perfect Pies tops 500g beef mince in red wine gravy with a golden Cheddar mash crust. And it comes in at around 680 calories for four, so it works as a midweek dinner or a weekend batch cook. Si and Dave call this “one of our very favourite pies,” …