Easiest Way to Cook Yummy Toad in the Hole

Toad in the Hole. Nigel Slater shares the secrets behind his perfect toad in the hole recipe: skinless sausages, red hot dripping and a few hidden extras. Toad in the hole or Sausage Toad is a traditional English dish consisting of sausages in Yorkshire pudding batter, usually served with onion gravy and vegetables. American Toad in a hole is one of the first recipes I had my children prepare when they were learning to cook.

Put the egg in the hole and salted and peppered some. Because I don't like my eggs runny I covered the pan with a lid to help cook the top of the egg some. Consisting of sausages set in a golden pillow of crispy batter, old-fashioned toad in the hole is one of the great British classics. You can cook Toad in the Hole using 8 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Toad in the Hole

1. Prepare of Batter.
2. You need 110 grams of Plain white flour.
3. It's 300 ml of Milk.
4. Prepare 2 large of Eggs.
5. It's 1/2 tsp of Salt.
6. Prepare of dish.
7. It's 6 medium of Sausages.
8. It's 4 tbsp of oil.

Pour the oil into a medium-size rectangular baking dish and put into oven to heat. In the meantime, brown sausages in skillet on both sides. Toad in the hole is one of England's most bizarrely named foods. Where did its unusual name come from?

Toad in the Hole instructions

1. Place the flour in a bowl, create a well in the centre and break in the eggs. With a wooden spoon mix to a smooth paste. Add the milk and whisk till smooth and the surface of the batter is covered in bubbles. Allow the batter to rest for half an hour..
2. Pre heat the oven to 230 c , 450°F , gas mark 8.
3. Grill or fry your sausages (veggie sausages work perfectly in this dish. My picture is of a veggie and a meat version. Both were fantastic) till they are nicely browned..
4. Add the oil to your tin and heat in the oven till the oil is smoking hot..
5. While the oil is heating, give the batter another whisking.
6. Carefully pour the batter into the tin and place your sausages..
7. Bake for about 5 to 10 mins before turning the heat down to 200 c , 400°F , gas mark 6. Cook for another 20 to 30 or untill the batter around the sausages has risen and is a deep golden brown..
8. Serve imideately as the batter will deflate a bit as it cools..

Britain is known for its oddly named delicacies, from Bubble & Squeak to Spotted Dick, but Toad-in-the-Hole really takes the biscuit for bizarrely named food with no clear reason for its label. Toad in a hole, or toad in the hole, combines two British favorites to produce what many consider to be a tasty, though certainly not fat free, dish. Essentially, it is sausage covered and baked in Yorkshire pudding. Toad in the Hole is a traditional English dish of sausages cooked in a Yorkshire pudding batter. Our version replaces the butter with oiive oil and adds grainy mustard and onion quarters to the batter.

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