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.
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 uses milk instead of cream, so you get a lighter bowl at around 215 calories a serving. And it feeds four in about 40 minutes, which makes it an easy midweek lunch with bread and butter. I have cooked through the entire Hairy Bikers cookbook collection, and …
Four tablespoons of paprika in a single pot of soup sounds like a mistake, but this Hairy Bikers goulash soup recipe from the Big Book of Baking needs every gram. Si and Dave brought it back from Hungary on the Bakeation series at around 390 calories per serving and just under three hours of slow …