Fan-Tested Hairy Bikers Recipes
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 …
Hairy Bikers Christmas pudding vodka steeps dried fruit, cinnamon, cloves and orange zest in a bottle of vodka with just 75g of sugar. Then it needs 3 days in the fridge to make about 500ml, or 20 shots at 65 calories each, from their recipe on BBC Food. Their BBC recipe page says to “keep …
This Hairy Bikers game pie recipe is a cold picnic pie, with venison, mixed game and bacon in red wine under a puff pastry lid. So set aside 4 hours 15 minutes plus cooling, and the Perfect Pies recipe gives 6 generous slices at roughly 1,490 calories each. Built for carrying, they pitch it as …
Hairy Bikers ginger biscuits are crisp gingernuts with chopped stem ginger, made by melting golden syrup and butter into self-raising flour and brown sugar. And one batch makes about 24 biscuits of roughly 100 calories each in 25 minutes, from the recipe in Brilliant Bakes. They call the gingernut “a total classic”, but they add …
Homemade treacle ginger cake, black cherries, amaretti, custard and cream are the layers in Hairy Bikers ginger cake trifle, finished with slices of stem ginger. In Ultimate Comfort Food it’s called ginger cake and black cherry trifle, and it makes 8 portions of about 440 calories in roughly 3½ hours. For them, cherries and gingerbread …
Baked rather than steamed, Hairy Bikers sticky ginger pudding is a dark treacle sponge with stem ginger and red chilli, topped with hot toffee sauce. And in Great Curries, where it’s called sticky chilli ginger sponge, it makes 8 portions of about 690 calories in just over an hour. They admit “we’ve even managed to …