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.
These Hairy Bikers Italian meatballs in tomato sauce come from the Hairy Dieters and land at just 282 calories per serving. The recipe makes 24 small balls in a chunky red wine tomato sauce, and it feeds 4 without tasting like diet food. Grated carrot in the mince is the detail that separates this from …
Hairy Bikers spaghetti and meatballs from Everyday Winners uses pork mince with pine nuts and lemon zest, which gives each ball a crunch and freshness most recipes miss. The meatballs bake while the tomato sauce simmers, so everything comes together in about an hour and serves 4 at around 680 calories. Most spaghetti and meatball …
Gammon steaks take six minutes in a frying pan and the parsley sauce barely takes longer, so this is one of the quickest dinners in Meat Feasts. The recipe serves 4 at around 550 calories with 200g steaks, and the headnote says to “forget your pineapple rings” because the sauce is all you need. The …
Cola tenderises gammon in a way that water never will, because the sugar breaks the fibres down over a slow cook until the meat nearly falls apart. This Hairy Bikers gammon in coke uses that trick with the boil-then-glaze technique from British Classics, and it serves 8 at around 430 calories. No gammon in coke …
This Hairy Bikers gammon ham recipe from British Classics simmers a 2.5kg joint for two and a half hours before glazing it with bourbon and cherry conserve. It serves 8 at around 420 calories per slice, and the whole thing takes about three and a half hours. The headnote says this was “a Christmas essential …
This Hairy Bikers spinach and ricotta lasagne from One Pot Wonders is an assembly job that takes under an hour at around 900 calories per serving. Frozen spinach, precooked sheets, and jarred passata do most of the work, so there is almost no cooking before the dish goes in the oven. The headnote calls it …
This Hairy Bikers leek lasagne from the Hairy Dieters swaps every pasta sheet for blanched leek leaves at 354 calories per serving. The ragù still has red wine, mushrooms, and a cornflour white sauce though, so nothing about it tastes like diet food. The headnote says this “fools your eyes as well as your belly” …
This Hairy Bikers roasted vegetable lasagne from Veggie Feasts layers courgettes, peppers, squash, and a whole roasted garlic bulb with an infused béchamel. It serves 5 at around 700 calories and takes just under two hours with a 45-minute roast and a 30-minute bake. The headnote calls this “a great dish for a weekend feast” …
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. …
Si and Dave never published a pork goulash, but after cooking all three of their beef versions I built this Hairy Bikers pork goulash recipe using their techniques and pork shoulder instead. It takes about three hours with the slow simmer, serves 6 at 355 calories, and every method step traces back to a specific …