How should i cook my first Haggis?

[Comfy Old Boots]

Flying visit to Glasgow weekend past for a birthday party and i bought this in the airport.

How would you suggest i cook it? My plan to cover in tin foil and put in the oven In an inch of water for 90 mins. Tatties will be mashed irish spuds and the neeps will most likely be a can of baked beans.

The picture suggests haggis can be used in more ways than i thought? Can i grill haggis?

 

[Greg Masters]

Luckily, you have a pre-plucked haggis...

 

[Auwyn]

Roast it with garlic and rosemary for 45 minutes, then throw it in the bin and go and buy something worth eating.

 

[KMD]

Roast it with garlic and rosemary for 45 minutes, then throw it in the bin and go and buy something worth eating.

 

[Comfy Old Boots]

Luckily, you have a pre-plucked haggis...

Haha, not sure i’d like to be making it myself!

 

[Comfy Old Boots]

Roast it with garlic and rosemary for 45 minutes, then throw it in the bin and go and buy something worth eating.

I’m preparing myself for the smell.

Does it smell?

 

[Comfy Old Boots]

Cheap, delicious, and pretty healthy meal!
Fab either microwaved as per instructions, or sliced and fried to get a crispy edge. Serve with mashed potato and chopped carrots & parsnips (or turnips... any root veg really!). Add a shot of whisky to your gravy or make a creamy whisky sauce to go with it. DELICIOUS. Guilty pleasure is a haggis toastie... sliced bread, cooked haggis in the middle, whack in a toastie maker or onto a frying pan and press down with a plate on each side. OMG.
5 out of 5
Written by balhamgirl
3rd November 2020


Now, fried or bbq’d? That sounds interesting. Can i treat it like a big pudding?!

 

[Big Si]

Put it in the oven with a brick.................etc etc

 

[(RIP) spike418]

Roast it with garlic and rosemary for 45 minutes, then throw it in the bin and go and buy something worth eating.

Bloody barbarian!

Local chippy has them deep fried in batter, along with similar black pudding and spam.

Food of the gods

 

[Greg Masters]

However you cook it, it will taste offal.

 

[FatAl]

I usually microwave the haggis, remove the covering (sheeps bladder or whatever) then mash it up and add a bit of branston pickle. My local butcher makes an excellent haggis (one of the best I've had) which I normally export to friends and relatives north of the border.

 

[MartinK]

Oven is definitely best, wrapped in foil, and in a casserole dish with 1 or 2 cm of water. Gives the best consistency
Love them, have them regularly, but without tatties, just with carrot/turnip mashed together and steamed broccoli on the side
Probably sacrilege, but we have gravy with ours

 

[Tinytim]

Roast it with garlic and rosemary for 45 minutes, then throw it in the bin and go and buy something worth eating.

It took some willpower for me not to click on "Like" did that.

 

[Tinytim]

Bloody barbarian!

Local chippy has them deep fried in batter, along with similar black pudding and spam.

Food of the gods

Racist!

 

[ronnie69]

wrapped in foil (in case of burstage/spillage) then immersed in boiling water and simmered gently for about an hour. Moist and luvverly. Bashed neeps, chappit tatties and whatever else you fancy. A local butcher who shoots/rolls* and hangs his own might edge MacSweens tastewise.

* Many young Scots kids are told that haggises/haggi (well, the wild ones at least) have their left legs shorter than their right (or vice versa) for running easily around steep hillsides. So one way of catching them to eat is to grab one (if you're quick enough), turn it around the other way so the short legs are on the outside, it rolls down the hill to the bottom, you stick it in the pot, Bob's yer Uncle. More humane than shooting them allegedly. Enjoy.

 

[Comfy Old Boots]

Haha! I love that bit of Scottish lore Ronnie. Genuinely bemused

 

[parkys100]

I usually wrap in Tin Foil and in the steamer for 60 mins rotating occasionally

 

[tuftywhite]

Dry fry it (maybe with a little oil) until it's crispy, then pour over a tot or two of whisky cook it off then serve.

 

[Boxed-in]

Maybe me overthinking this, but does it not have cooking instructions on the packaging?

 

[Auwyn]

It took some willpower for me not to click on "Like" did that.

Do it. Come to the dark side.