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Hairy Bikers panang beef curry braises 1cm cubes of stewing beef in a pounded homemade paste, finished with coconut milk and diced red pepper. Since most of its 2 hours 40 minutes is braising, this Asian Adventure curry asks little of you, at about 500 calories a bowl. Thai cooks pound their pastes “with what …

This Hairy Bikers beef curry hotpot lays thin potato slices over curried braising steak and carrots, then crisps them in the oven. Since the Our Family Favourites recipe serves 4, I’d put each portion near 710 calories with the cheese, ready in about 2 hours. It grew from an earlier “cracking Indian shepherd’s pie”, which …

Hairy Bikers chestnut and mushroom pie packs 600g of mushrooms and halved chestnuts into a herby wine and stock sauce inside a buttery shortcrust case. From British Classics it feeds 6, so I reckon a slice at roughly 640 calories, and I’d allow 2 hours 20 minutes in all. On Comfort Food, Si and Dave …

Hairy Bikers beef curry is Mama’s Curry, the dish Renee cooked for her daughter’s birthday, with braising steak simmered in tomatoes, yoghurt and warm spices. As printed in Mums Still Know Best it serves 4, and I’d put each bowl at about 475 calories, ready in 2 hours 10 minutes. As Si and Dave tell …

Hairy Bikers cod wrapped in Parma ham sits on a tray of roasted peppers, courgettes and red onion under a crunchy Parmesan crumb. From chopping board to table it takes about 50 minutes, serving 4 at 224 calories a portion according to Hairy Dieters. For a diet fish supper, it’s bold of Si and Dave …

Hairy Bikers stuffed marrow is a whole marrow, halved and hollowed, then packed with beef mince, tomato, garlic, thyme and two cheeses. At 6 portions, each is about 500 calories as I tot it up, and this Mums Still Know Best recipe takes 2 hours. According to Avis Davies from Wales, it was “her first …

Hairy Bikers pork casserole, as near as their books get, is their pig’s cheek casserole, braised slowly in cider with leeks, mushrooms, bay and thyme. Though it takes over 2 hours, the Meat Feasts recipe is easy, feeding 4 at what I work out as about 550 calories a plate. There’s no stock at all, …

Hairy Bikers shakshuka is a pan for the middle of the table, with eggs set into soft peppers and onions warmed by cumin and caraway. While there are no calories listed in Chicken & Egg, I work a plate with yoghurt out at about 405, ready in 50 minutes. Shakshuka has “so many recipes”, as …

Hairy Bikers Thai green curry belongs to Auntie Daeng, a Bangkok chef who once cooked for the Thai royal family. With no times or calories in Asian Adventure, I make it about an hour for 4 bowls of roughly 570 calories each, before rice. For all the pounding, Si and Dave still call her recipe …

Hairy Bikers jerk chicken came to them from Lorenzo Richards, who cooked it at his Worcestershire restaurant with a scotch bonnet and soy marinade. And of its 2 hours, one is marinating, giving 6 portions from Chicken & Egg at around 520 calories each, at a guess. Lorenzo gave them this recipe “to spread the …