Fan-Tested Hairy Bikers Recipes
Four leg steaks rubbed with lemon, garlic and dried mint roast over new potatoes, broad beans and courgettes for Hairy Bikers lamb steaks. In One Pot Wonders they call it Minty Lamb Steaks, and it gives 4 plates of around 670 calories in about 1½ hours. Lamb steaks are “a really useful cut of meat, …
Curry-spiced egg noodles, roasted pork fillet and prawns make Hairy Bikers Singapore noodles, tossed with red pepper, shiitake and 10 spring onions. And their recipe in Great Curries, also on BBC Food, makes 4 bowls of around 380 calories, ready in roughly 1 hour 10 minutes. In Great Curries, Si and Dave admit its “origins …
Just 2 lamb leg steaks feed 4 in this Hairy Bikers lamb tray bake, roasted over aubergine, pepper, onion and new potatoes with feta. And it’s their Lamb and Aubergine Traybake from Meat Feasts, taking roughly 1 hour 20 minutes at about 435 calories a portion. They say the dish “smacks of sunshine and Greek …
Thin 23cm Yorkshires baked in a hot pan and folded round rare sirloin and onion gravy make these Hairy Bikers Yorkshire pudding wraps. From Route 66, their BBC road trip series, 5 wraps come to about 530 calories each in roughly 1 hour 50 minutes. On their website they admit “we tried to do this …
Dried sage in the batter and sliced onion in each hole make Hairy Bikers sage and onion Yorkshire puddings taste like stuffing and Yorkshire together. And the recipe is from their BBC series Go North, making 12 muffin-tin puddings at about 95 calories each in roughly 1 hour 40 minutes. “We still reckon Dave’s mum’s …
Dave’s mam’s recipe from Mums Know Best makes this Hairy Bikers Yorkshire pudding, with flour, 2 eggs and full-fat milk poured into smoking-hot fat. And I get 12 small puddings from it at about 90 calories each, in about 1 hour 35 minutes including the batter’s hour-long rest. “Dave learned to cook this when he …
Two tins of chickpeas make Hairy Bikers halloumi tray bake a full meal, with red onion, peppers, courgettes, halloumi and tomatoes in one tin. From One Pot Wonders, it serves 4 in about an hour at roughly 470 calories each by my count. In their words it’s a “trayful of Mediterranean magic”, because veg, carbs …
A Hairy Bikers sausage plait is sausage meat, raw chopped onion and mixed herbs laid on homemade pastry, then wrapped in criss-crossed strips. From Mums Know Best, it cuts into 8 slices at about 695 calories each, and it’s ready in 80 minutes. They reckon the sausage roll is “the most abused item in British …
In Hairy Bikers prawn and chorizo orzo, prawns each threaded with a slice of cooking chorizo sit on saffron orzo with orange and fresh herbs. And on their BBC series Comfort Food they cooked it by eye, so I’ve weighed it out: 2 plates, 625 calories each, 40 minutes. “I think the link is orange”, …
These Hairy Bikers prawn tacos are chipotle, ancho and cocoa glazed prawns on warm tortillas, with jalapeño coleslaw underneath and mango salsa on top. From Ultimate Comfort Food, the recipe makes 16 small tacos for 4 people, at 725 calories a person and 65 minutes start to finish. “You’ll find it hard to stop eating …