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.
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. …
“Who needs a carry-out?” is how Si and Dave introduce their Hairy Bikers sweet and sour tofu recipe in the Veggie Feasts cookbook. It is fully vegan at 220 calories and 30 minutes, which makes it the lightest sweet and sour in their entire collection. The sauce skips ketchup and uses sweet chilli sauce with …
No ketchup, no deep-frying, no heavy batter. This Hairy Bikers sweet and sour pork recipe from Meat Feasts takes a different path, using marinated fillet strips and a dark soy sauce with pineapple juice at 265 calories per serving and 55 minutes including the marinade. The trick that makes it work is the ginger juice …
This Hairy Bikers sweet and sour chicken recipe uses fresh pineapple, ginger, and a homemade sauce at around 280 calories per serving. It comes from the Chicken and Egg cookbook and takes just 30 minutes, so the Friday takeaway can wait. Si and Dave wrote that you can beat any takeaway “with nice fresh pineapple …
These Hairy Bikers lamb chops come from their Meat Feasts book, fried with lamb’s kidneys, golden smothered onions and a splash of Marsala. They serve four at around 760 calories, ready in about 45 minutes and finished with crispy sage leaves. What makes this more than a plain chop is the pairing of lamb with …
This Hairy Bikers lamb kofta comes from their Hairy Dieters Eat Well book, and it skewers spiced lamb mince with hidden lentils for a lighter kofta. It serves four at 390 calories, with a saffron tahini dressing and herby wholemeal couscous, after a quick half-hour chill. The clever twist here is blending cooked lentils into …
This Hairy Bikers lamb kebab is their Dieter’s Doner from the Eat for Life book, a homemade version of the post-pub favourite. It blitzes lean leg steak and mince into a smooth kebab that fries in minutes, serving four at 361 calories with garlic sauce and salad in warm pitta. The trick that makes it …
This Hairy Bikers lamb pasanda from their Great Curries book is a mild, creamy curry made with flattened leg meat in an almond and yoghurt sauce. It serves six at around 550 calories a portion, with at least an hour of marinating before it cooks. The name says it all, since pasanda means “liked” or …
Rogan josh is a Kashmiri classic, and this Hairy Bikers lamb rogan josh from their Great Curries book does it properly. Slow-melted onions and kashmiri chilli build a deep red sauce. Lamb leg, potato and spinach make it a one-pot meal for six at around 450 calories. The colour is the giveaway with a good …
This Hairy Bikers lamb dopiaza comes from their Great Curries book. It cooks yoghurt-marinated leg meat in a spiced onion sauce, finished with onion wedges, and serves five at around 560 calories a portion. Dopiaza means “double onions”, and that is the trick. Some onions are sliced thin and cooked down to a soft, browned …