Fan-Tested Hairy Bikers Recipes
Hairy Bikers soup recipes from the cookbooks, from thick winter warmers to light blended bowls, each one tested and written up in full.
Hairy Bikers celeriac and apple soup pairs 750g of celeriac with three eating apples and finishes with crispy bacon. It comes from Meat Feasts, one page before their pea and ham soup, and serves six at about 310 calories a bowl. Allow an hour and a half, because celeriac takes a while to peel. They …
Hairy Bikers tomato soup with fresh tomatoes is one swap away from the tinned original, a kilo of ripe tomatoes replacing two tins. The recipe is Cream of Tomato Soup from Mums Still Know Best, with onion, garlic, dried herbs and double cream. It serves four at about 290 calories a bowl, and takes just …
Hairy Bikers parsnip and apple soup matches its parsnips gram for gram with Bramley apples, 600g of each. Most recipes call for one or two apples, so this is a much sharper, more apple-led soup. It comes from British Classics and makes six bowls at around 215 calories, in just over an hour. They write …
The mushrooms get grated, not sliced, and that is what makes Hairy Bikers mushroom soup different. It comes from Mums Still Know Best, built on 300g of mushrooms, 450ml of stock and 450ml of milk. Four bowls take 40 minutes and come to about 205 calories each. They write in Mums Still Know Best that …
Two things carry Hairy Bikers broccoli and stilton soup: 500g of broccoli and 125g of Stilton. The rest of the base comes from One Pot Wonders, which is onion, celery, a floury potato and 800ml of stock. It serves four at about 300 calories a bowl and takes 45 minutes. Blue cheese and broccoli is …
This Hairy Bikers carrot and coriander soup follows the soup method from their British Classics cookbook. It uses the same butter base, the same long fry and the same splash of milk at the end. Six bowls come to about 165 calories each. The spicing comes from their Mediterranean Adventure book, where carrots take crushed …
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 chicken noodle soup simmers a whole chicken with onions, carrots, green pepper, and egg noodles into a clear, golden broth. It comes from the Hairy Bikers Cookbook, serves 6 to 8, and it is the kind of soup that quietly fixes a bad day. There is a proper story behind this one. …
This Hairy Bikers leek and potato soup recipe comes from their Colcannon soup in Our Family Favourites, built with milk instead of cream. So you get a lighter bowl at around 215 calories, and it feeds four in roughly 40 minutes. Si and Dave call that Colcannon soup “a firm favourite for the cooler months,” …