Fan-Tested Hairy Bikers Recipes
This Hairy Bikers beef curry hotpot lays thin potato slices over curried braising steak and carrots, then crisps them in the oven. Since the Our Family Favourites recipe serves 4, I’d put each portion near 710 calories with the cheese, ready in about 2 hours. It grew from an earlier “cracking Indian shepherd’s pie”, which …
Hairy Bikers chestnut and mushroom pie packs 600g of mushrooms and halved chestnuts into a herby wine and stock sauce inside a buttery shortcrust case. From British Classics it feeds 6, so I reckon a slice at roughly 640 calories, and I’d allow 2 hours 20 minutes in all. On Comfort Food, Si and Dave …
Hairy Bikers pilau rice is white basmati simmered in stock with butter, onion, turmeric and lightly pounded whole spices. From Great Curries it feeds 5 to 6, while I count a sixth of the pan at about 280 calories, ready in 40 minutes. The 5-minute stand at the end is the bit the bikers won’t …
Hairy Bikers beef curry is Mama’s Curry, the dish Renee cooked for her daughter’s birthday, with braising steak simmered in tomatoes, yoghurt and warm spices. As printed in Mums Still Know Best it serves 4, and I’d put each bowl at about 475 calories, ready in 2 hours 10 minutes. As Si and Dave tell …
Hairy Bikers millionaire shortbread layers a buttery base, a condensed milk caramel and a thin coat of chocolate in one square tin. So I cut 16 squares of about 275 calories from the Mums Know Best recipe, and with my setting times it’s ready inside 3 hours. It’s billed as “a truly decadent treat”, with …
Hairy Bikers cod wrapped in Parma ham sits on a tray of roasted peppers, courgettes and red onion under a crunchy Parmesan crumb. From chopping board to table it takes about 50 minutes, serving 4 at 224 calories a portion according to Hairy Dieters. For a diet fish supper, it’s bold of Si and Dave …
Hairy Bikers stuffed marrow is a whole marrow, halved and hollowed, then packed with beef mince, tomato, garlic, thyme and two cheeses. At 6 portions, each is about 500 calories as I tot it up, and this Mums Still Know Best recipe takes 2 hours. According to Avis Davies from Wales, it was “her first …
Hairy Bikers pork casserole, as near as their books get, is their pig’s cheek casserole, braised slowly in cider with leeks, mushrooms, bay and thyme. Though it takes over 2 hours, the Meat Feasts recipe is easy, feeding 4 at what I work out as about 550 calories a plate. There’s no stock at all, …
Hairy Bikers shakshuka is a pan for the middle of the table, with eggs set into soft peppers and onions warmed by cumin and caraway. While there are no calories listed in Chicken & Egg, I work a plate with yoghurt out at about 405, ready in 50 minutes. Shakshuka has “so many recipes”, as …
Hairy Bikers Thai green curry belongs to Auntie Daeng, a Bangkok chef who once cooked for the Thai royal family. With no times or calories in Asian Adventure, I make it about an hour for 4 bowls of roughly 570 calories each, before rice. For all the pounding, Si and Dave still call her recipe …