Recipe : Primrose Hill Scotch Eggs

Despite what the name suggests, Scotch Eggs are not actually Scottish. In fact they are credited to having been invented by Fortnum and Mason in 1783 right here in London. Scotch eggs are the perfect picnic food but seeing as the seasons are changing and picnics are no longer really an option, we thought they would be better suited to Sunday brunch.

Take a look at the recipe to find out how Mr. Greedy Cochon made these fabulous looking Scotch Eggs.

Ingredients :

800g Sausage meat (ours was from the wonderful London butcher The Ginger Pig)

2 Small onions

4 Garlic cloves

12 Eggs

Breadcrumbs

Plain flour

Method :

- Boil the eggs for 6 minutes (or more if you would like a hard boiled scotch egg), and then place them into cold water.

- Peel the eggs gently, they must stay intact.

- Take the meat out of the sausages, press in the garlic, add the finely chopped onions, season with salt and pepper and mix together.

HINT : After mixing your meat together, fry a small ball of the mixture and see how it tastes. This way you can then make any amendments necessary to the seasonings before it's too late.

- Now comes the tricky part, 'wrapping' the eggs in the meat. Spread a ball of the meat out flat into a square of roughy 10 x 10mm and 5-8mm thick.

- Place an egg in the centre and wrap the meat around it slowly and carefully.

- Prepare three bowls, one with flour, one with a lightly whisked egg and one with the breadcrumbs. 

- Firstly, lightly cover the ball in flour.

- Then place it in the egg bowl. To avoid the any cracks in your scotch eggs, work the egg into the meat as best you can so that the surface is smooth and there are no gaps.

- Finally, coat the ball in breadcrumbs.

- Heat up some frying oil (to around 180 degrees) in a pan and pop in you scotch egg.

- Fry for 5 minutes until the breadcrumbs are golden.

- Place on kitchen roll to soak up the surplus grease.

- Et voila!

TIP : If like Mr. Greedy Cochon you made far too much meat, never fear! You can buy some puff pastry and make some mini sausage rolls. Yum!