Yen Can Cook: Scotch Eggs (Air Fryer Version)
At Sam’s request, I bought a box of quail eggs last 2 weeks and instead of just boil and eat I was thinking a recipe that can associate the eggs into dish. Scotch Eggs that’s it!
Scotch egg, a classic British dish that consists of a shelled hard-boiled egg, wrapped in a sausage meat mixture, coated in breadcrumbs, and deep-fried. While the vast majority of recipes call for chicken egg & sausage meat, my version is using quail egg and minced pork which was part of my purchase from Blue Cow Butcher.
Ingredients
6 quail eggs
150g minced pork (half lean, half fat)
1 teaspoon of salt, pepper and sage leaves
Carrot, finely chopped (optional)
French beans, finely chopped (optional)
1 teaspoon salt, pepper, sage leaves
2 eggs
50g breadcrumbs
All purpose flour
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Step 1: Cook the eggs in boiling water until fully cooked, approximately 2-3 minutes, then plunge into cold water and carefully peel.
Step 2: Mix minced meat, chopped carrot, French beans, salt, pepper, sage leaves and 1 egg in a bowl, blend well and stir the mixture until become paste form. The mixture should be sticky.
Step 3: Place another egg (beaten) into a shallow bowl and bread crumbs into separate bowl.
Step 4: Roll the hard-cooked eggs in All purpose flour then mold the minced meat mixture (Step 1) around the eggs, carefully roll into a round.
Note: Purpose of roll the eggs in flour is to make the meat mixture cling better.
Step 5: Dip each egg in the beaten egg, then the breadcrumbs until fully coated.
Step 6 : Pre-heat air fryer at 180ºC. Lightly brush the grill with cooking oil. Place eggs and air fry for 10-15 minutes, flip the meat balls for even browning. Alternatively, deep fry the meat balls in heated oil for until golden brown then drain on kitchen paper before serving.
HAPPY COOKING!
This is really so attractive presentation and delicious! It is so healthy to use the Air Fryer.
Thank you TM and I like my air fryer not only it’s healthier but also the cleaning is easier and doesn’t make the whole kitchen greasy.
你将苏格兰夹心蛋的鸡蛋换成鹌鹑蛋这个点子好耶！！可以把肉团作得更小巧，同样也丰富了视觉与味觉。
I may…. need an air fryer..
Yes, if you like to cook fried food 😛 Save your time of cleaning the greasy kitchen 😛
This looks so good. My boys will eat this dipped in ketchup.
Sam don’t like ketchup, it’s quite weird as a kid =.=”
the scotch eggs turned out very nicely!
Thank you Sean 🙂
Ooo…these are mini scotch eggs. So easy to eat…just pop the whole thing into the mouth…hehe! ^_~ Didn’t try making the oozy egg yolk version? Kekeke! 😀
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