Baked Herbed Scotch Eggs are the new healthier Scotch eggs

The old fashioned idea of fried scotch eggs has long gone there are healthier ways of making Baked herbed Scotch Eggs, they are tasty as well as healthier. I tend to use a Cumberland sausage bought in a roll rather than conventional sausages. The old fashioned Scotch egg is a hard boiled egg, wrapped in Sausage meat, then dipped in egg and wrapped in dried bread crumbs, then deep fried to give them a crunch .

It is a very tactile recipe and it is difficult to get it done without getting your fingers messy, but Lorrainne Pascuale recommends that you wrap the hardboiled eggs already dipped in flour in squashed sausage meat in cling film. So baked herbed scotch eggs is less messy to make as well as healthier.

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Baked herbed Scotch Eggs

Adapted from Lorraine Pascale’s Baked Herbed Scotch Eggs

Ingredients
4 large organic eggs hard boiled (duck eggs are great)
500g of Cumberland sausage skinned
2 large handfuls of your favourite soft herbs, I Love sage, but lemon thyme, thyme, orange thyme, rosemary, mint are all good
Flour to coat the eggs with
1 beaten free range egg to dip the final sausage covered egg in
Fresh breadcrumbs from a wholemeal loaf
A low fat spray to coat the Scotch eggs in

Method for Baked Herb Scotch eggs
Hard boil the eggs dip in flour so that the sausage meat has something to stick on. Take a handful of sausage meat and herb mixture, and press the hardboiled egg into it, and press around to seal the egg. It is not as vital that the Baked herbed scotch egg because it is less likely to part company from the egg when baked. Dip the coated egg in the beaten egg then in fresh crumbs. Add a cooking spray and bake for about thirty minutes.

Baked herbed Scotch Eggs Serving suggestions

Scotch eggs are great picnic food, they transport really well for a packed lunch for the kids, a snack or a full grown picnic. They are best served at room temperature once cooled, though they can be served warm from the oven. In fact if the eggs are still runny they are perfect. Use any combination of fresh or dried herbs in the sausage meat. You can also use other flavourings such as garlic, chutney, relish or piccalilli. Baked Herbed Scotch Eggs are a great food to make a batch of on Sunday and keep in the fridge to dip into for lunch or a snack. Scotch eggs are not actually Scottish, they are English made originally by the quintessentially British departmental store Fortnum and Mason’s.

I like to eat mine for lunch with a huge bowl of green salad, but they are also great with a baked sweet potato that is crisp and covered with alioli, a garlic mayo. Baked herbed scotch eggs are also good as a brunch or supper dish or a snack, in fact there uses are only restricted by your imagination.You can add mustard to the sausage meat or any fresh relish. If you add fresh onion very finely chopped, it gives the baked herbed scotch eggs some texture as well as taste.

Variations on Baked Herbed Scotch Eggs

Use quails eggs to make tiny Baked herbed scotch eggs which are perfect with drinks and healthier than peanuts. Baked Herb Scotch eggs are perfect as an appetiser with Baked Ricotta with Olives with Baked herbed Scotch eggs. Make a mustard mayonnaise to dip the Baked herbed Scotch Eggs  in by stirring 1 tablespoons of French’s mustard into 3 tablespoons of  top quality Mayo.

Final thoughts on Baked Herbed Scotch Eggs.
Scotch eggs were very popular in the seventies, and then the idea of Scotch eggs waned when we became more aware of health issues from fried food. However by following the Baked Herbed Scotch Eggs recipe you can enjoy healthier less fatty Scotch eggs. They still have the same great taste as the conventional version, but they are Baked Herbed Scotch Eggs. Baked Herbed Scotch Eggs are also paleo friendly if you are on paleo diet.Lorraine Pascale’s Baked Herbed Scotch Eggs were made with ordinary sausage meat and not Cumberland Sausage.