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.
“Throw away those jars of instant chasseur sauce and discover the real thing” is how the Mums Still Know Best cookbook opens this Hairy Bikers chicken chasseur. Eight skin-on thighs, 300ml of white wine, mushrooms, and banana shallots do the rest, serving 4 at around 620 kcal in under an hour. Chasseur means hunter in …
Fresh mango is the twist in this Hairy Bikers coronation chicken recipe, and it replaces the usual sultanas with something brighter and juicier. The chicken gets steamed rather than poached, which keeps it tender, and the whole thing serves 4 at around 650 kcal. The Chicken and Egg cookbook calls this “an oldie but a …
Lime is the surprise in this Hairy Bikers chicken korma, and it changes everything. Six chicken thighs sit in a ginger, garlic, and lime paste for an hour, then cook in a ground almond sauce for 25 minutes at around 425 kcal. The Ultimate Comfort Food cookbook calls this “Our new chicken korma” and says …
This Hairy Bikers chicken Normandy is really a chicken cider casserole dressed up in French clothes, because 300ml of dry cider and a brandy flambé do all the work that wine and stock would in a standard braise. Four bone-in chicken legs cook in it for about 30 minutes, and the whole thing serves 4 …
Most beef stroganoff recipes start with paprika, but this Hairy Bikers version skips it entirely and uses Dijon mustard and brandy instead. The 600g of fillet steak cooks in about a minute, so the whole dish is ready in under 25 minutes at around 400 kcal. The Meat Feasts cookbook calls this “a fast version …
A full bottle of red wine goes into this Hairy Bikers beef bourguignon, and you can taste every drop in the finished sauce. The 1.6kg of well-marbled chuck braises with it for about three hours alongside bacon lardons, baby onions, and mushrooms, serving 6 at around 700 kcal. Well-marbled beef is non-negotiable here, and the …
This Hairy Bikers chicken and leek pie recipe fills a shortcrust case with poached chicken, ham and leeks in a creamy white wine sauce. And it comes from Chicken and Egg, serving six at around 770 calories in about an hour and forty minutes. Si and Dave call this their “last supper pie” in the …
This Hairy Bikers beef stifado recipe is a slow-braised Greek beef stew of chuck steak and whole pickling onions in spiced red wine. And it comes from Meat Feasts, feeding six at about 510 calories a serving, with roughly 2 hours 30 minutes total. Si and Dave note that stifado “always contains loads of little …
Every other meatball recipe on this site mixes the meat by hand, but this Hairy Bikers kofta curry blitzes the lamb in a food processor with garam masala, green chillies, and ginger. The paste marinates overnight, and that long chill is what the headnote calls the secret to “golden balls of heaven.” The sauce gets …
Aubergine is the base of these Hairy Bikers veggie meatballs from Veggie Feasts, not lentils or beans like most vegetarian meatball recipes use. Finely diced aubergine gets browned with onion and tapenade, then mixed with cheese, smoked paprika, and toasted pine nuts before baking at 200°C. The headnote says “the aubergine gives them a good …