Toad in the Hole

[pinklillie]

We are having toad in the hole for dinner. I ask my husband what veg he would like with it. He replied it doesnt need veg it's a meal on its own.

Is it!?

I am going to have to make some mash and peas/broccoli it's going to look like half a meal isn't it!

With mash, veg and gravy here. It would be pretty boring on it’s own.

Broccoli 🥦. It needs Broccoli, or peas. But tha needs tha greens!

@IamEarthymama
bbc food website has a good one

You folk who serve potatoes with your Toad in the Hole, do you also have chips with lasagne?

@Tulipomania

You folk who serve potatoes with your Toad in the Hole, do you also have chips with lasagne?

You folk who have Yorkshire pudding on your beef roast dinner, do you also have potatoes?

We had it the other night with mash and sautéed spinach. Should have done some gravy, but forgot!
You definitely need something with it, even if just frozen peas.

Onion gravy and carrots,peas and purple sprouting broccoli in this house.

@Tulipomania

Eh?!

@TriciaMcMillan me too really, I was blatantly under egging it when I said a big bit . I'm just a bit of a piggy 🐷

Oh and OP, thanks, I now know what I'm having for dinner 👍

do yourself some veg and just serve him TiTH.

You married a man who doesn't like gravy?? No potatoes, but definitely veg.

We would definitely have potatoes and vegetables with toad in the hole.

IamEarthymama
We take a relaxed recipe:
Four eggs, about the same volume of plain flour and same volume of milk, salt and a bit of pepper in the liquidiser or whisk.
Sausages in lots of fat in a roasting tin and oven for about 20 minutes (we have 6 sausages in a big roasting tin and separate veggie sausages in a loaf tin) then pour the batter in for another twenty/twenty five minutes. It’s fairly bullet proof but use more fat in the tin(s) than you think or use a chisel to serve with.

And the law is broccoli and carrots as the carb is the hole.
And onion gravy (or bistro veg gravy if feeling lazy)

I part steam brocolli and add it in to the pan.

I’d do Savoy cabbage and lots of onion gravy. And depending on numbers and how hungry, maybe some mash too.

@mnahmnah

Just peas on the side. But we cook it with potatoes and onion in the bottom

That sounds delicious... not the peas though

Potato and onion first? Do you fry/bake them first?
And then the sausages, then batter?

Dh doesn't like Toad-in-the-hole Hole, no matter how I cook it
But the kids and I do, must try your version..

i am also making it today,
just for 2 now there are only 2 of us to cook for,

Mash peas and gravy

Got to have veg!

Also you've just inspired me to do it for dinner. I'll do it with shredded green cabbage, leeks in a cheese sauce, and onion gravy.

You don’t need mash! - you have the batter as a carb. But yes you need 2 x veg - carrots and broccoli or whatever

@IamEarthymama

I tried to make Toad in the Hole when attempting to impress my now DW with my cooking skills! Abject failure and I have never heard the end of it!

Please share your recipes!

I would serve a handful of roast potatoes (just because the oven is on ) with TitH, carrots, cabbage and onion gravy,

I think I will try it today, it’s our 25th anniversary next year, it would be good to achieve success before then!

OK my recipe - not original but I was born in Yorkshire.

Use a food processor to make the batter, this is for a large tin but you can reduce it for smaller amounts

In the food processor pur 1 pint of milk 2 eggs (1 is traditional but I always have eggs around) tip in plain flower so the amount in the processor looks to have doubled from the milk - switch on high and keep cool somewhere, the longer the better, 24 hours is good.

On the day of making Yorkshire pudding put your oven on the highest setting, put in a big metal roasting tin with about a quarter of a pack of lard or beef dripping (don't even think about using oil) in the top of the oven.

Leave for 10 mins to get the lard to at least partially melt.

Add the sausages, put back in the oven for 15 mins. If you have got cheap sausages you might need more fat, supermarket own brand Cumberland are my choice if I have not been to the butcher.

Give the batter a stir.

After 15 mins put the hob on, take the tin out of the oven and put on the hob.

Arrange the sausages, I tend to go for an artistic arrangement, my carer puts them in two lines.

Pour the batter in, put the tin back in the oven and set a timer for 15 mins.

Turn the hob off.

DO NOT OPEN THE OVEN.

After 15 mins have a look through the oven glass to see if it has risen, you might need another 2 mins.

As for having potatoes, my carer doesn't care for 'proper' meat so he might be having sausages or TiTH for a roast dinner so I will be having roast AND mashed potatoes, greeen and orange veg, gravy and possibly even mint sauce.

Mmm, you've inspired me. Might do a veggie version this evening with masked sweet potato or cauliflower and some brocoli.

*mashed. Mashed sweet potato could be a bit chewy.

@WeatherwaxOn

*mashed. Mashed sweet potato could be a bit chewy.

When autocorrect corrects its incorrect corrections and you try to put it right.

I always put onions and rosemary in my traditional toad in the hole and serve with buttery cabbage
My mid week one is normally roast Mediterranean veg and feta and then drizzled with pesto so it's a one pot meal .