Scotch eggs
Scotch eggs are easy to make at home and you can tinker with them to add your favourite flavouring or coating.
16 sausages, 2 packs, make 8 meaty Scotch eggs.
They don't actually need to be coated with anything providing you cook them on a non-stick surface. Panko breadcrumbs work well. For this batch I used a mixture of black & white poppy seeds. sesame seeds are very good too.
After trying many varieties of sausages I have found the nicest tasting were Morrisons own brand sausages. They are also economical [from 97p to £1.65 for 454 grams - March 2018] Another advantage of these is that the sausagemeat is really easy to extract from the sausages because the skins are so loose on the uncooked sausages.
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| Servings: | Serves 8 |
| Calories per serving: | 425 |
| Ready in: | 1 hour |
| Prep. time: | 20 minutes |
| Cook time: | 40 minutes |
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| Recipe author: | Chef |
| First published: | 1st March 2018 |
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Best recipe reviewI could not stop eating these. 5/5 They were so good, and so much nicer than shop-bought Scotch eggs. |
Ingredients
Printable 🖨 shopping 🛒 list & 👩🍳 method for this recipe
- 2 packs of Morrisons own brand sausages [454 g per pack]
- 8 medium free range eggs - ensure the eggs are at least 4 days old or you will be unable to peel them easily.
- Optional flavourings and coatings
Mise en place
- Add the eggs to a pan of warm water and bring to the boil and boil for 5 minutes. Remove the pan from the heat and allow to cool.
- Peel the hard-boiled eggs using a teaspoon. Doing this under a trickle of water sometimes makes the task a little easier.
- Preheat your oven to 180° C (350° F - gas 4), [fan oven 160° C & reduce cooking time by 10 mins per hour]
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Sesame seed and poppy seed Scotch eggs, cooked
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Sesame seed and poppy seed Scotch eggs, ready to cook
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Morrisons own brand sausages - my favourite!
Method
- Squeeze the sausagemeat from 16 raw sausages into a bowl.
- If you are going to add any flavourings to the sausage meat, do this now.
- Using your hands - latex gloves make this easier - squidge the sausage meat together so it's mixed well. Especially if your using a mixture of sausages.
- Weigh out about 110g of sausage meat and make a round pattie - about 13 cm [5 inches] in diameter.
- Place a hard-boiled egg in the centre of the pattie and work it into a ball, ensuring there is no seam.
- If you are going to coat them, sprinkle your coating onto a large plate and roll the scotch eggs around in the mixture until they are completely covered.
- Place the eggs on o non-stick baking tray or a baking tray covered with grease-proof paper.
- Bake in the oven for 40 minutes, turning once.
- Allow to cool and serve.
Variations
Try coating with breadcrumbs, poppy seeds or sesame seeds.
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