Fan-Tested Hairy Bikers Recipes
The batter for Hairy Bikers toad in the hole has rubbed dried sage in it and needs to stand for an hour before it goes anywhere near the oven. It uses eight pork sausages, a large onion and 150g of flour, comes from Meat Feasts and serves four. The batter is Dave’s mum’s Yorkshire pudding …
This Hairy Bikers red cabbage is braised for fifty minutes in cider, vinegar and muscovado sugar until the liquid has gone completely. Half a cabbage feeds four at about 170 calories, and the recipe appears in both British Classics and Meat Feasts. Two books print it almost identically, which tells you they were happy with …
The salmon is only in the oven for eight or nine minutes in Hairy Bikers salmon tray bake. Everything else goes in first, sweet potato, red onion and peppers for twenty minutes, then broccoli and black beans for another twenty. The recipe is in One Pot Wonders and serves four to six at about 450 …
There is Parmesan in Hairy Bikers American meatloaf, between 50g and 100g of it, which is not something you find in a British one. It uses a kilo of minced steak, comes from Mums Still Know Best, and bakes for 50 to 60 minutes. The recipe belongs to Nancy Davis, an American living in England …
Three different meats go into Hairy Bikers meatloaf: 300g of minced beef, 300g of minced pork and 450g of good sausage meat. The recipe is in British Classics, bakes for 45 minutes and serves six at about 550 calories. They had been filming at Arnold’s Country Kitchen in Nashville, serving the famous meat and three. …
The venison is not browned first in Hairy Bikers venison casserole, and that is deliberate. A kilo of shoulder or leg goes into the pot raw, braises in ale for the best part of two hours, then gets a scone cobbler topping. The recipe is called rich venison cobbler in Perfect Pies and serves six. …
No one ever grumbles about a crumble, as they put it, and this is their classic. Hairy Bikers apple crumble uses four eating apples and two Bramleys with 50g of flaked almonds in the topping, comes from British Classics, and serves six at about 490 calories. They call apple the classic and their personal favourite, …
The topping on Hairy Bikers vegetable crumble is flour, butter, parsley and Cheddar, with no sugar and no oats anywhere. Underneath sits mushroom, butternut squash, broccoli and cauliflower in a cream and cheese sauce. The recipe is in One Pot Wonders and serves four at about 620 calories. They make the case for it plainly: …
Soggy is what usually goes wrong with rhubarb, and Hairy Bikers rhubarb crumble deals with it in one line: a tablespoon of cornflour tossed in with the fruit. The recipe is in Perfect Pies, uses 750g of rhubarb with stem ginger, and serves six at about 465 calories. They flag the cornflour themselves as a …
The fruit goes into Hairy Bikers apple and blackberry crumble in layers, not mixed together. Half the apples, a third of the cinnamon sugar, then all 300g of blackberries, then the rest of the apples on top. It comes from Mums Know Best, serves six and works out at 586 calories a portion. Si and …