Fan-Tested Hairy Bikers Recipes
Hairy Bikers Christmas cake is a last-minute fruit cake of dried pineapple, apricots, cherries and cashews soaked in white port, in a cardamom-spiced batter. So from British Classics you get 12 slices in about 10 hours, soaking and cooling included, at my estimate of 985 calories each. A Christmas cake traditionally “has to be made …
Hairy Bikers meat and potato pie encases lean minced beef, Maris Piper potatoes, carrot and celery in lard shortcrust, baked in a 20cm square tin. And from Perfect Pies it serves 6 in about 2 hours 25 minutes, counting my hour of cooling, at my estimate of 645 calories each. “All Northerners have their favourite …
Hairy Bikers cheese and onion pie wraps diced potato, onion, Lancashire and mature Cheddar in a lard and butter crust, baked free-form on a tray. So it’s a pie for 4 from British Classics, taking about 1 hour 40 minutes, at my estimate of around 1,125 calories a quarter. Dave ate “two cheese and onion …
Hairy Bikers mince and onion plate pie packs 750g of minced beef and two onions inside a butter, lard and baking powder crust. And in Perfect Pies it’s a pie for 6, roughly 3 hours including cooling, at my estimate of around 775 calories a slice. The filling is Si’s mam’s method, which they say …
Hairy Bikers frangipane mince pies skip the pastry lid, so an almond sponge with flaked almonds bakes over the mincemeat in a nutty shortcrust case. With the Everyday Winners recipe you get 24 at about 225 calories each, in roughly 1¼ hours with chilling. Half the pastry is the point, because in Everyday Winners they …
Hairy Bikers mince pies are orange and cranberry ones, with marmalade and brandy in a same-day mincemeat under lemony sweet shortcrust. From Perfect Pies, the recipe makes 12 Christmas pies at about 195 calories each, in roughly 2¼ hours including cooling and chilling. Marmalade is the twist, because Si and Dave add it to make …
Hairy Bikers Christmas pudding trifle layers chunks of Christmas pudding and Madeira cake with ginger wine, mango, pineapple, custard and whipped cream. From their Go North Christmas episode on BBC Food, it takes 30 minutes plus 2 hours chilling and makes about 8 portions of 560 calories. Half the ginger wine goes on first, because …
Hairy Bikers Christmas pudding is a dark suet pudding of sultanas, prunes, glacé cherries and candied peel, soaked overnight in rum, stout or Marsala. And it steams for 3½ hours, then at least 2 more on the day, giving 8 portions of about 540 calories from British Classics. For Si and Dave, “Christmas isn’t Christmas …
Hairy Bikers nut roast is a festive loaf of mixed nuts, chestnuts, spinach and grated parsnip, served with a creamy sherry mushroom gravy. And the British Classics recipe takes about 1 hour 50 minutes, while a slice with gravy is about 340 calories when cut into 8. In British Classics it is the roast that …
Hairy Bikers rabbit stew is an old-fashioned braise of rabbit, smoked bacon and Chantenay carrots in dry cider, with peas stirred in last. And it takes about 3 hours 30 minutes, serving 6 at roughly 460 calories a portion, from the recipe in Mums Still Know Best. Cider, bacon and stock do the work in …