Making chilli Scotch Eggs

Scotch eggs - they're awesome, aren't they? Especially with chipotle chilli and chorizo in the mix - yum!


Here's the kit.

• Decent quality sausages (80%+ meat or grind your own pork shoulder or belly pork)
• Celery seeds, rock salt, black pepper
• Eggs
• Chorizo and chipotle

Boil up some eggs, but not too hard. 5 minutes is plenty. They cook more later, so the aim is the softest set egg you can get out of a shell unruptured - much less than 4 minutes and it is liable to break on shelling!


Squeeze the meat from the sausage skins...


Mashed finely chopped chorizo in with the sausage meat and wrap round the eggs


Roll into a ball...


Coat in beaten egg...


Roll in fresh bread crumbs (that is, fresh bread in a blender, not old manky dry crumbs)


Keep rolling...



Until nicely coated...


Put on an oven tray...


Season with salt, pepper, chipotle and ground celery seed



and BAKE!

needs about 30 minutes, turning as required to cook evenly