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.
Seven spices in a meatball recipe sounds like overkill until you realise this version from Mediterranean Adventure follows Moorish cooking traditions. So these Hairy Bikers Spanish meatballs use lamb with cinnamon, cardamom, cumin, and cayenne, and the dish serves 4 to 6 at around 465 calories. Every Spanish meatball recipe online uses pork or beef, …
Four anchovy fillets in a meatball recipe sounds wrong until you taste what they do to 600g of pork mince. They dissolve during baking and add a salty depth that makes these Hairy Bikers Swedish meatballs from British Classics better than anything from a flat-pack furniture store. It serves 4 to 6 at around 440 …
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 …
Look for a Hairy Bikers gammon in coke and none turns up in the 16 cookbooks I own, but their ginger beer ham comes close. So here it is from Family Favourites, glazed with tamarind, sugar and ginger, which gives 4 plates of about 640 calories in about three hours. They rate it “simple but …
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” …