Monday 2 December 2013

Making chilli Scotch Eggs

Scotch eggs - they're awesome, aren't they? Especially with chipotle chilli and chorizo in the mix - yum!
Finished, cooked Scotch eggs

Here's the kit.

  • Decent quality sausages (80%+ meat or grind your own pork shoulder or belly pork)
  • Celery seeds, rock salt, black pepper
  • Eggs
  • Chorizo and chipotle
Scotch egg ingredients

Boil up some eggs, but not too hard. 5 minutes is plenty. They cook more later, so the aim is the softest set egg you can get out of a shell unruptured - much less than 4 minutes and it is liable to break on shelling!
Boiled egg

Squeeze the meat from the sausage skins...
Scotch eggs - squeezing out sausage meat

Mashed finely chopped chorizo in with the sausage meat and wrap round the eggs
Shaping Scotch eggs

Roll into a ball...
Shaping Scotch eggs

Coat in beaten egg...
Scotch eggs - applying egg wash for breadrumbs

Roll in fresh bread crumbs (that is, fresh bread in a blender, not old manky dry crumbs)
Scotch eggs - applying breadrumbs

Keep rolling...

Scotch eggs - applying breadrumbs

Until nicely coated...
Scotch eggs - applying breadrumbs

Put on an oven tray...
Raw Scotch eggs coated not seasoned

Season with salt, pepper, chipotle and ground celery seed
Raw Scotch eggs coated and seasoned


and BAKE!

needs about 30 minutes, turning as required to cook evenly


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