Fan-Tested Hairy Bikers Recipes
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 …
A kilo of fresh plums goes into Hairy Bikers plum crumble raw and quartered, tossed in mixed spice, cinnamon and the zest and juice of an orange. The recipe is in Perfect Pies, bakes for 45 minutes at 200°C and serves six to eight at about 400 calories. They say crumbles are among their very …
About five minutes in the pan is all the liver gets in Hairy Bikers liver and bacon, browned and then warmed through thick onion gravy. And both British Classics and Mums Still Know Best print it for 4 people, with 365 calories a plate and 35 minutes start to finish. Liver and bacon is a …
Four whole braising steaks of about 200g each, browned two at a time and then cooked slowly in the oven with onion wedges. The recipe appears in both British Classics and Mums Still Know Best, word for word the same, and feeds four at 558 calories. They call it a real old-school British classic and …
The beans do not go in until the last twenty minutes of Hairy Bikers sausage and bean casserole. Sausages, onions, butternut squash and bacon roast on their own for half an hour first, then the beans and sauce are poured around them. It is called sausage and bean supper in One Pot Wonders and feeds …
Twelve sausages go into Hairy Bikers sausage casserole, and none of them get pricked. The recipe is in Mums Still Know Best, where it is called their great sausage casserole, and it feeds six at about 450 calories in a little over an hour. They describe it as a rich-tasting casserole with a hint of …
I built this Hairy Bikers rhubarb chutney on their chilli and green apple chutney from Perfect Pies, swapping the apples for a kilo of rhubarb. The spicing stays theirs, so allspice, a cinnamon stick, ginger, red onion and dried fruit, and it makes about 1.2 litres. Their chutney already uses 500g of dried fruit, which …
The chicken gets a ten minute marinade before it goes anywhere near the wok, and that is the whole trick. Hairy Bikers chicken stir fry uses just 200g of chicken for four people, with mangetout, baby corn, cashews and pineapple doing the rest. The recipe is in Everyday Winners and works out at about 225 …
Hairy Bikers southern fried chicken is fried and then roasted, not fried all the way through. Each piece gets two or three minutes a side in oil, then fifteen minutes in the oven on a rack. The recipe is in Chicken & Egg and feeds six at about 640 calories. They cooked this on the …
Three kinds of pork go into Hairy Bikers pork and bean casserole: 500g of pork belly, eight sausages and 150g of bacon lardons. Add 500g of haricot beans soaked overnight and it is one of the richest dishes in Ultimate Comfort Food, at what I estimate is roughly 1,550 calories a serving. They call it …