Classic toad in the hole
For me there is no other food that says "Great English Dishes", than Toad In The Hole served with mash potato and a lovely rich onion gravy. The recipe below is just a lovely plain one, but you can tweak it by adding a teaspoonful of horseradish sauce to the batter mix, or a teaspoonful of English mustard. You could add some dried herbs like oregano, thyme or rosemary. Please experiment and let us know any tweaks that have worked for you.
Ingredients
Serves: 4
- 125g plain flour
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 2 large eggs, preferably free range
- 300ml water, milk or beer
- a twist of black pepper
- 2 tablespoons cooking oil or lard
- 6 to 8 sausages of your choice
Method
Prep:15min ›
Cook:45min ›
Ready in:1hr
- Mix the flour and salt in a large bowl. Make a hollow in the centre and add the eggs.
- Mix whilst gradually adding the liquid. Use a whisk to beat out any lumps of flour.
- Leave the batter to stand, the longer you can leave it the better, I personally make my batter the night before and then leave in the fridge overnight.
- Heat the oven to 220 C (gas mark 7). Heat the lard or cooking oil in a high sided roasting tin, add the sausages and cook for 10 minutes.
- Place the roasting tin over a high flame until the fat smokes (the pan and oil must be very hot), pour in the batter and return to the oven. Bake for 25 - 30 minutes and serve.
See it on my blog
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Brilliant recipe, I added six rashers of chopped streaky bacon, one teaspoon of English mustard and a large chopped onion and cooked it in my Dutch Oven. It came up lovely, served with cheese and butter mash, steam fried veg and onion gravy. (I have uploaded a picture.) - 20 Feb 2014
One of the best recipes I've tried for toad in the hole, although I'll reduce the salt to half a teaspoon next time. - 02 Mar 2014
Yes, this worked fine. I'm never quite sure how much of what to put in (i.e. eggs, milk, flour) and this worked really well. I was worried it was a bit thin, but actually it rose beautifully. I turned mine down after 1/2 hour as it was done by then. - 05 Feb 2012