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Scotch Eggs

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Scotch Eggs

Soft-boiled eggs encased in spiced pork sausage and fried in crispy breadcrumbs. Chilling the peeled soft-boiled eggs before wrapping them in sausage meat makes them firm enough to handle without breaking the yolk.

Total time
35 min
Prep
25 min
Cook
10 min
Difficulty
hard
Cuisine
British

Ingredients

6eggs
500gpork sausage mince
1 tspdried thyme
1 tspdried sage
1/2 tspnutmeg
1 tspDijon mustard
1/2 cupplain flour
2eggs, beaten
1 cuppanko breadcrumbs
vegetable oilfor frying
salt and pepperto taste

Instructions

1

Boil 4 eggs for 5 minutes (soft-boil), 2 remaining eggs hard-boil. Peel all and chill.

2

Mix sausage mince with thyme, sage, nutmeg, mustard, salt and pepper.

3

Flatten sausage meat, wrap around each soft-boiled egg, pressing firmly.

4

Dredge in flour, then beaten egg, then breadcrumbs.

5

Deep-fry at 170°C for 8-9 minutes until deep golden. Drain and rest 2 minutes.

Nutrition (estimated)

Per serving, based on a standard 4-serving portion and standard nutrition references — not a lab or USDA-verified measurement.

Calories
259
Protein
15.9g
Fat
10.3g
Carbs
24.8g
Fiber
1.3g
Sodium
230mg

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