Fan-Tested Hairy Bikers Recipes
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 the richest thing in Ultimate Comfort Food, at roughly 1,300 calories a serving. They call it a cross between a cassoulet and …
Only 200g of lamb mince goes into Hairy Bikers keema rice, because the rice is the main event here rather than the meat. It comes from Everyday Winners, cooks in one pan with 200g of basmati and 300g of peas, and feeds four at about 415 calories. They call it a cross between a pilaf, …
Swapping lamb for turkey is the whole idea behind Hairy Bikers turkey keema peas. It comes in at 270 calories a serving, uses 600g of turkey thigh mince with reduced-fat coconut milk and 250g of petits pois, and the recipe is in Eat to Beat Type 2 Diabetes. They are clear that the traditional dish …
Mince and peas is a northern English habit and a northern Indian one too, which is the joke behind Hairy Bikers keema peas. The recipe is in One Pot Wonders, made with 500g of lamb mince, 300g of peas and a splash of coconut milk, and feeds four at about 455 calories. They say it …