Thought I'd share some of the party food from today with you all.
These are Haggis Bon Bons. Haggis is a traditional Scottish dish made from sheep offal mixed with spices, oatmeal and onion. It's really really tasty - but due to being made from offal, many people write it off before tasting for some reason.
Haggis can be pretty hard to get hold of here in England - though it is starting to appear in the shops from about now until January (when Scots celebrate Robert Burns who was a very well known poet of bygone years). I didn't actually buy haggis on this occassion, I received a massive box from my dad earlier in the week containing black pudding, lorne sausage and haggis. Most of it is now in the freezer.
Haggis Bon Bons are ideal party finger food and very easy to make.
Take some uncooked haggis and roll into approx 1" diameter balls.
Roll the balls in flour and then in beaten egg before coating in breadcrumbs.
I make my own bread crumbs with the halogen oven by cooking slices of bread at a low temperature for quite some time to dry it out but also keep it pale. After cooling, I then blitz this with my Bamix into fine crumbs.
After making the balls, refridgerate until required. Shortly before you need them, heat some oil about 1/3 deep in a pan. Drop in the balls and fry until golden (about 5 mins)
If you want to make these several hours in advance to save messing around with oil later - you can deep fry and then set aside. Pop on the baking tray into your halogen oven on top rack at about 200deg C for about 5 mins to reheat. They'll take at least 10mins plus preheating in a normal fan oven.
They freeze well too after coating with the breadcrumbs - so easy preprepared party food !
oh you have done it perfectly and wonderful finger food, have to try it soon :)
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