Fan-Tested Hairy Bikers Recipes
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”, …
Fifteen minutes of mixing and twenty in the oven is all the Hairy Bikers rock cakes ask for. One bowl makes eight craggy buns full of sultanas and glacé cherries, at about 345 calories each. Si bakes these thinking of “the tiny house in Team Valley, near Gateshead, where my Auntie Hilda and Uncle George …
This Hairy Bikers pork and apple pie is a hot dinner under a shortcrust lid, eaten with a knife, fork and plenty of gravy. Perfect Pies serves eight from one 23cm tin, at about 800 calories a slice. “Pork and apple are a classic flavour combination and make a belter of a pie,” says the …
This Hairy Bikers pork pie recipe makes four proper raised pies with jelly, and the only special equipment is four jam jars. The hot water crust pastry shapes over the cold jars, sets hard in the fridge, then slips free ready to fill. “This is a proper traditional raised pork pie,” says Perfect Pies, “and …
This Hairy Bikers eccles cakes recipe comes from their Perfect Pies cookbook, and it makes 10 to 12 little currant pastries. Each one is about 250 calories, and the whole batch is done in 45 minutes. The same recipe also appears word for word in their Mums Know Best book, so they clearly trust it. …
Wrapped in pleated paper and foil, twisted at the ends like a Christmas cracker, the Hairy Bikers jam roly poly bakes inside its own parcel. What comes out is a risen suet sponge with jam spiralled through every slice. British Classics keeps it to “simple store-cupboard ingredients”, just flour, suet, sugar, milk and jam. Si …
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 …
A custard tart is the plainest bake in the British repertoire, and the Hairy Bikers custard tart keeps it that way on purpose. Crisp pastry, silky vanilla cream and a roof of grated nutmeg, and nothing else gets in. Brilliant Bakes jokes that it is “much too good for throwing at anybody”, a wink at …