Basically, it’s a giant Yorkshire pudding with sausages/meat-free sausages that will leave you scrapping the plate looking for more. Childhood nostalgia, a family meal or whether you are trying it for the first time – toad-in-the-hole is a dish that will make you smile.
Serves: 2
Level of difficulty: Easy
Prep time: 10 mins
Cooking time: 40 mins
Total time: 50 mins
Ingredients:
75g self-raising flour
Pinch of salt
1 medium egg
150 ml milk
10 ml melted butter
4 sausages
Serve with mash potatoes or chunky chips.
Recipe:
- Set the oven to 200°C fan.
- In a large bowl mix the flour and salt together.
- In another bowl, beat the egg and add the milk – mix together.
- Melt the butter (30 seconds in the microwave).
- Pour the butter, along with the egg and milk mix – onto the flour, all the while stirring. Keep mixing till the batter is slightly thicker than milk, and there’s no lumps.
- Using a deep oven-dish, pour in a couple of tablespoons of oil till it’s only a few millimetres deep, and place in the oven for five minutes – this is to heat the oil up.
- Taking the dish back out, evenly space four sausages apart, and put back in the oven for another 10 minutes.
- Before pouring the batter into the dish, give it a quick stir to ensure the flour hasn’t settled to the bottom.
- Taking the dish out of the oven, pour the batter in till it’s level, or slightly above the height of the sausages. Now you want to do this quickly, but safely, as the batter needs to be poured onto hot oil.
- Place back into the oven for another 20 mins.
- Reduce the heat of the oven to 180°C fan, and cook for another 10 minutes, till the outside is nice and brown, and crispy to the touch.
