Scotch eggs

Scotch eggs

Makes 10 to 12 medium-sized Scotch eggs

Sausage Filling Ingredients

½ lb mild pork breakfast sausage (loose, not link)

1/2 lb spicy pork breakfast sausage (loose, not link)

½ medium onion, very finely diced

1 Tbsp finely snipped chives

2 tsp finely snipped sage

1 Tbsp finely snipped lemon-thyme

1 Tbsp Colman’s Original English Prepared Mustard

fresh cracked pepper

Flour coating Ingredients

2 cups flour

Panko crumb coating Ingredients

2 cups all-purpose flour

2 – 3 cups panko bread crumbs

1 Tbsp mixed herbs (chive, sage, lemon-thyme)

1 tsp salt

Egg wash Ingredients

3 eggs

3 Tbsp milk

Instructions

Boil one dozen medium-sized eggs for 5 minutes. Cool in ice water for 10 minutes. Peel and refrigerate eggs.

Mix together sausage filling ingredients and chill well.

Put 2 cups all-purpose flour in a large shallow bowl . In a second large shallow bowl, mix together panko crumbs mixed herbs and salt. In a third large shallow bowl, whisk eggs and milk together.

Arrange shallow bowls assembly line style with flour first, egg wash next, panko crumbs last.

Roll your first hard boiled, peeled, chilled egg in flour.

Scoop about 1/3 cup of sausage mixture onto a square of plastic wrap on your counter.  Flatten sausage into an oval, about 1/8 inch thick. Place flour-coated egg on sausage. Lifting plastic wrap, coax the sausage around the egg and then use your hands to pat and smooth  the sausage over all of the egg, being careful to crimp all of the edges. 

NOTE: You just want to cover the egg–if it looks like you have too much excess sausage, pinch it off and save it for the next egg. You don’t want the sausage to be much thicker than ¼ inch, to ensure that the meat will cook all the way through.

Carefully roll your sausaged-egg in flour patting/shaking off excess. Lightly/quickly roll in eggwash, then in the panko breadcrumb mix, completely covering the surface. Repeat: Roll in flour, then eggwash and finally in the panko.

Repeat process to cover eggs with sausage and panko.

Using a deep-fat fryer, heat peanut oil  to 375. Place one or two of the sausage-panko-covered eggs in the fry basket and immerse for five minutes. Remove eggs and let rest on paper to blot any fat.

Slice each egg in half. Serve hot with mustard, or, Thai sweet chili sauce, cilantro and a little mesclun salad mix.

Thank you