Toad in the Hole

Name: Toad in the Hole
Prep time: 35 min
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 1 h 5 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 8 good-quality pork sausages; 1 cup plain flour; 3 eggs; 1 cup whole milk; 1/2 tsp salt; 3 tbsp lard or vegetable fat; fresh thyme few sprigs; onion gravy to serve

Plump pork sausages baked into a golden, puffed Yorkshire pudding batter, a great British comfort dish.

Total time

65 min

Prep

35 min

Cook

30 min

Difficulty

medium

Cuisine

British

Ingredients

8good-quality pork sausages

1 cupplain flour

3eggs

1 cupwhole milk

1/2 tspsalt

3 tbsplard or vegetable fat

fresh thymefew sprigs

onion gravyto serve

Instructions

Preheat oven to 220°C. Make batter: whisk flour and salt, beat in eggs, then gradually add milk until smooth. Rest 30 minutes.

Place lard in a deep baking tray and heat in the oven for 10 minutes until smoking.

Brown sausages in a pan 5 minutes. Place in the hot tray.

Pour batter around sausages. Scatter thyme over the top.

Bake 30 minutes without opening the oven — the batter should puff up and turn deep golden. Serve with onion gravy.

Nutrition (estimated)

Per serving, based on a standard 4-serving portion and standard nutrition references — not a lab or USDA-verified measurement. Some ingredients in this recipe couldn't be matched to a reference value, so treat this as a rough estimate.

Calories

204

Protein

9.8g

Fat

5.8g

Carbs

27g

Fiber

0.8g

Sodium

318mg

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