Fan-Tested Hairy Bikers Recipes
Hairy Bikers starter recipes to open a meal, from savoury tarts and sharing plates to light bites that work before a roast.
Eight big cakes come out of this Hairy Bikers salmon fish cakes recipe, from 800g of poached salmon, dry mash, dill, capers and lemon zest. With the hollandaise on, each cake comes to about 650 calories by my count, and the whole job takes me an hour and a quarter. These are folded by hand …
Cheese on toast is the base, and this Hairy Bikers Welsh rarebit recipe adds a beer sauce, an egg yolk and English mustard to it. At 150g of Cheddar over four slices, British Classics serves 4, and each slice is about 335 calories for a quarter of an hour’s work. For when you are “cold, …
Devilled means cayenne here, and this Hairy Bikers devilled kidneys recipe keeps it to one teaspoon, with sherry, stock and mustard doing the rest. In Meat Feasts eight lambs’ kidneys feed 4 on buttered toast, which takes me 20 minutes and lands near 395 calories a plate. The headnote claims they “made Dave’s tache curl”, …
Six eggs, 500g of sausage meat and a double coat of breadcrumbs make these Hairy Bikers scotch eggs, seasoned with sage, thyme and cayenne. And Mums Know Best turns that into 6 at roughly 520 calories each, in about 45 minutes from pan to picnic. “Good old-fashioned Scotch eggs are perfect for a coach trip …
One bunch of spring onions, 100g of gram flour and a spoon of oil make this Hairy Bikers pakora recipe, with warm water to bind. So Great Curries gets 12 out of it, at about 80 calories each and 25 minutes from chopping board to plate. “Who would have thought a spring onion could taste …
Potato, peas and black mustard seeds go into this Hairy Bikers samosa recipe, wrapped in a pastry you make from flour, oil and water. And Great Curries gets 9 from that, at roughly 235 calories each and an hour and a half from bowl to plate. Packet samosas and home-made are “like chalk and cheese”, …
Three onions, two green chillies and a single egg are the whole of this Hairy Bikers onion bhaji recipe, bound in 125g of gram flour. Because Great Curries makes 12 to 14 from that, at roughly 135 calories each and 35 minutes start to finish. “Home-made versions can be a bit flabby and oily, but …
The mixture for Hairy Bikers thai fish cakes is far too wet to shape, and that is not a mistake. Sea bass gets blitzed with red curry paste, galangal and lime leaf in Asian Adventure, and 500g of fish makes 18 to 20 small cakes. These started life in Great Curries and were reprinted because …
Hairy Bikers pork terrine is in two cookbooks, and they do not agree on how many it feeds. British Classics says this pork and chicken terrine serves six to eight while Chicken and Egg says four, so the version here follows British Classics at 745 calories. Si and Dave write in British Classics that a …
The Hairy Bikers cheesy custard tarts are small savoury bakes with Parmesan in the pastry and Gruyère in the filling. Brilliant Bakes designed them for handing round at parties, so the sweetness is swapped for garlic, thyme and a pinch of cayenne. Brilliant Bakes calls them “a real treat for those who don’t have a …