Fan-Tested Hairy Bikers Recipes
Hairy Bikers chicken recipes from the cookbooks, from curries and casseroles to roasts and pies, each one traced to the book it came from.
Make this Hairy Bikers massaman curry once and you are halfway through the second, because the homemade paste deliberately makes double. Their Asian Adventure recipe serves 4 at around 490 calories in about an hour, with chicken, potato, and peanuts under the coconut milk. The book describes massaman as slightly sweet, fragrant, and gently warm, …
Hairy Bikers chicken bhuna is a deep, dryish curry, where chicken thighs and three peppers cook down in a fried onion and spice paste. It comes from their Eat for Life book at 305 calories a portion, and it takes about 55 minutes to serve 4. In the book they pitch it as “the perfect …
Hairy Bikers sticky chicken wings are baked not fried, so they come out glossy and dark in a soy, honey, and apricot glaze. That glaze comes from Our Family Favourites, where the wings serve 4 at around 320 kcal in about 50 minutes. One of the Hairy Bikers reckons he can “strip the meat off …
Hairy Bikers buffalo wings are the proper American bar snack, chicken wings fried until crisp then coated in a hot, buttery Frank’s sauce. A cool blue cheese sauce and celery come on the side, and this Chicken and Egg recipe feeds 4 in 50 minutes at 800 kcal. Si and Dave call this an American …
Forty cloves of garlic sounds like a lot, but that is exactly the point of this French classic. Si and Dave brown a whole chicken, nestle it in a casserole with all that garlic, shallots, and vermouth, then finish the pan juices with a tarragon cream sauce. It comes from their Chicken and Egg book, …
Chicken yassa is a West African classic, and Si and Dave’s version keeps all its fire. It starts with skin-on thighs marinated in a punchy mix of scotch bonnet, ginger, garlic, lemon, and Dijon mustard, then braised with deeply caramelised onions and green olives. It comes from their Ultimate Comfort Food book, serves 4 at …
The secret to Si and Dave’s chicken shawarma is patience, since the flavour is built the day before you cook. Boneless thighs sit overnight in a marinade of lemon, garlic, and warm spices, cumin, coriander, smoked paprika, and a little cinnamon and cayenne, then get grilled and sliced. It comes from their Chicken and Egg …
There is a shortcut quesadilla and there is this one, and Si and Dave went for the proper version. It starts with a big batch of Mexican pulled chicken, slow-cooked for hours in a spiced tomato sauce, then that tender, saucy meat gets loaded into tortillas with peppers, two cheeses, and avocado. It comes from …
Most chicken puttanesca just drops thighs into a jar of sauce, but Si and Dave do something cleverer. They tie each boneless thigh into a neat round parcel with string, brown it, then bake it in a punchy anchovy-and-caper tomato sauce, all served over linguine. It comes from their Chicken and Egg book and serves …
Think of everything that tastes of the South of France on one plate: white wine, olives, capers, lemon, and sweet roasted tomatoes. That is Hairy Bikers chicken provençal, a one-pan braise of crisp-skinned chicken from their Chicken and Egg book, serving 4 at around 650 kcal with soft polenta. The chicken does not stew in …