Scotch Eggs!

The kids and I had loads of fun this weekend, cooking up brunch for their visiting pals. Rather than the usual - which in our case tends to be omelets, smoked salmon and bagels or dosas and chutney - we went with scotch eggs, vegetable soup and garlic bread. A little eclectic, but it worked.

Scotch Eggs Ingredients:

Eight hard boiled eggs

Two uncooked eggs

One and half pounds ground turkey meat

One small chopped onion

One sprig parsley
Four tablespoons flour

Breadcrumbs

Pepper to taste

2 teaspoons salt

Oil to fry

• Shell hard boiled eggs - get the kids to do this! Roll them in flour seasoned slightly with a pinch or two of salt and pepper
• Finely chop the onions and the parsley. Mix it into the minced meat with salt and pepper
• Coat the eggs with the meat mixture so that the eggs are not visible. Your goal should be to have at least a couple of millimeters of meat all around the egg
• Beat the uncooked eggs in a separate bowl
• Roll the meat-covered egg with the raw egg, then coat in breadcrumbs
• Heat the oil on a medium flame, then pop in the coated eggs
• Let the coated eggs cook to a nice golden brown
• Cut the eggs in half and set in a nice pattern, either on lettuce or with parsley springs
• The kids will wold them down! They didn't even ask for ketchup!! I had forgotten to take pictures before the meal, hence the lonely eggs shown in the picture above!