Making Baked Scotch Eggs is not as hard as some may think and makes such a great dish for either breakfast or for any other time of the day. They can be a great picnic dish or party snack as well. Can be made in various sizes using either chicken eggs or smaller quail eggs. The classic scotch eggs are deep-fried but baking them makes them a bit healthier and they turn out very well.
For this dish, it is very important to use good quality sausage meat as is one of the main ingredients. I have coated the scotch eggs with both breadcrumbs and cornflakes and I enjoyed the cornflakes ones best. Feel free to choose the coating that you best like. These baked scotch eggs look and taste amazing and are best served warm with your favorite dipping sauce, pickles, or cheese.
How to make baked Scotch Eggs
Put the eggs into a medium pan, cover them with cold water, and bring to a boil. Boil for 4 minutes, then transfer them to a bowl of ice-cold water. Peel the eggs when they have cooled.
In a medium bowl, combine sausage meat with nutmeg, mustard, parsley, chives, salt, and pepper. Divide the mixture into four parts.
Take one piece of sausage mixture, form a ball, and flatten it into a patty. Roll the egg in flour and shape the sausage patty around the egg. Repeat this step with the remaining eggs.
Preheat the oven to 400°F (200°C). Roll each meat-wrapped egg into flour, then dip it into beaten eggs and coat it with either breadcrumbs or crushed cornflakes.
Place the eggs on an ungreased baking sheet and bake for 35 minutes until the sausage is completely cooked. Let them rest for 5 minutes before serving.
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Recipe slightly adapted after JamieOliver
Baked Scotch Eggs
Ingredients
- 4 eggs
- 1 pound (450g) good quality sausage meat , casing removed
- 1/2 tsp (2g) nutmeg
- 1 tsp (5g) mustard
- 1/4 cup (14g) parsley
- 1/2 cup (14g) chives
- Salt and freshly ground black pepper
For coating
- Flour
- 2 eggs , beaten
- Bread crumbs or crushed cornflakes
Instructions
- Put the eggs into a medium pan, cover with cold water and bring to the boil. Boil for 4 minutes, then transfer to a bowl of ice cold water. Peel them when cooled.
- In a medium bowl combine sausage meat with nutmeg, mustard, parsley, chives, salt and pepper. Divide the mixture into four parts.
- Take one piece of sausage mixture, form a ball and flatten into a patty. Roll the egg in flour and shape the sausage patty around egg. Repeat this step with the rest of the eggs.
- Preheat oven to 400F (200C).
- Roll each meat wrapped egg into flour, then dip into beaten eggs and coat with either breadcrumbs or crushed cornflakes.
- Place on ungreased baking sheet and bake for 35 minutes until sausage is completely cooked.
- Rest for 5 minutes before serving.
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This looks really delicious. I do it slightly different though.
I freeze the eggs the day before and then peel them and wrap them in the meat.
That way they will cook in the oven and the flavors of the meat and eggs will mingle during cooking.