Fan-Tested Hairy Bikers Recipes
Hairy Bikers pork recipes from the cookbooks, from gammon and sausage casseroles to pork pie and toad in the hole, each one traced to the book it came from.
This Hairy Bikers lentil and bacon soup comes from British Classics, which claims twenty minutes. It is closer to thirty, though, once you have chopped everything. It uses red lentils, smoked back bacon, sweet potato and red pepper, and serves six at 195 calories a bowl. British Classics calls it “central heating in a bowl”. …
Hairy Bikers pea and ham soup is a thick, rough blended soup of split peas and a whole ham hock. Meat Feasts calls it ham and pea soup, so a bowl lands near 300 calories after two hours, once the peas have soaked overnight. Si and Dave call it “a velvet caress for your belly”, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …