Fan-Tested Hairy Bikers Recipes
Find hearty and delicious Hairy Bikers main course recipes. From comforting pies and stews to quick chicken and beef dishes, discover your next family favorite.
Fifteen minutes is the whole thing for Hairy Bikers pork stroganoff, start to finish. It uses 500g of pork medallions, mushrooms, sweet smoked paprika and half-fat crème fraîche, and comes from The Hairy Dieters Make It Easy at 228 calories a serving. They write in the book that it seems quite a fancy dish, not …
Half the beetroot never makes it into the pan whole. It goes in the blender with a litre of stock first, and the rice then absorbs that liquid instead of plain stock. Hairy Bikers beetroot risotto serves four at 371 calories, in about 45 minutes. They describe it on their site as dazzlingly pink, rich …
The prawns go into Hairy Bikers seafood paella twice. They are seared at the start, lifted out, then put back at the very end so they never overcook. Everyday Winners serves four at about 460 calories, in an hour. They write in Everyday Winners that they wanted a straightforward seafood version using shellfish you can …
Nothing is wasted in Hairy Bikers smoked haddock risotto. The fish poaches in 1.5 litres of stock, then that same liquid is strained and ladled back into the rice. Everyday Winners serves four in 45 minutes at about 560 calories. They open the recipe by drawing a line: this is definitely a risotto, not a …
This Hairy Bikers pork and apple pie is a hot dinner under a shortcrust lid, eaten with a knife, fork and plenty of gravy. Perfect Pies serves eight from one 23cm tin, at about 800 calories a slice. “Pork and apple are a classic flavour combination and make a belter of a pie,” says the …
This Hairy Bikers pork pie recipe makes four proper raised pies with jelly, and the only special equipment is four jam jars. The hot water crust pastry shapes over the cold jars, sets hard in the fridge, then slips free ready to fill. “This is a proper traditional raised pork pie,” says Perfect Pies, “and …
Two full bottles of dark beer go into this Hairy Bikers shin beef stew, because its proper name is Carbonades Flamandes. The recipe comes from their official website, a Flemish beef and beer stew serving 4 at around 810 calories, with 2 hours in the oven. Belgium’s answer to our ale stews leans sweet and …
A strip of orange peel sits in the middle of this Hairy Bikers Chinese beef curry, and it belongs there. Their Asian Adventure recipe feeds 4-6 at around 500 calories, giving 1.25kg of beef shin up to 2½ hours to go completely tender. The book says Chinese curries have a character everyone knows from the …
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, …
Two of the four chillies in this Hairy Bikers beef madras never get chopped, because they go in whole with just a split down one side. That trick comes from their Eat for Life recipe, which serves 4 at a book-stated 346 calories, with the oven doing most of its 2 hours. The book files …