Recipe created by Camille Arcese @camicooks.
Who doesn’t love delicious, eggy Yorkshire puddings? The batter is simple to make, so no need to ever make them from a packet, and there are many tasty uses for it aside from making Yorkshire puddings – like making the classic English breakfast dish, toads-in-a-hole! My toads-in-a-hole recipe features Yorkshire pudding pastry baked with Farm Boy™ Artisan Sausage and sweet balsamic-reduced onions. Whip these up for a delicious party appetizer!
Note: unless your muffin pan is non-stick you may want to brush the sides with softened butter to prevent sticking.
Directions
- PREHEAT oven to 425°F.
- WHISK to combine the flour, salt, eggs, and milk in a mixing bowl until smooth and no lumps remain. Set batter aside to rest for 30 minutes – we do this to allow the flour to fully absorb the liquids, and to relax the gluten.
- Meanwhile, HEAT a frying pan over medium. Once heated and add the olive oil, onions, salt, thyme, and bay. Cook 2-3 minutes while stirring often. Then reduce heat to medium-low and continue cooking until onion is soft almost all the way through, glossy, and naturally sweet – about 5-8 minutes. Don’t be shy to add up to 1 tablespoon more oil if your pan is looking a little dry. Next, add the brown sugar and balsamic vinegar and cook 2-3 minutes more until onion is nice and jammy. Remove from heat and discard thyme sprig and bay leaves.
- DIVIDE the sausage evenly among 18 muffin cups using kitchen scissors to cut it up into little bits. Top with approximately ½ teaspoon olive oil in each.
- HEAT muffin pan (with sausage bits and oil therein) in preheated oven for 2 minutes – do this after the 30-minute batter rest time.
- REMOVE hot muffin pan from oven after the 2 minutes and carefully top each well with ¼ cup of the batter.
- BAKE 13-14 minutes until puffed up and golden brown at the sides. Remove mini toads-in-a-hole to a serving platter and top each with jammy onions. Serve warm
Ingredients
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 tsp sea salt
- 2 Farm Boy™ Large Eggs
- 1 cup milk, whole or 2%
- 1 Farm Boy™ Artisan Sausage, your favourite flavour
- 3 Tbsp Farm Boy™ Extra Virgin Olive Oil (1 L) more or less as needed
- 1 red onion, large chopped small
- 2-3 Tbsp Farm Boy™ Extra Virgin Olive Oil (1 L)
- ½ tsp sea salt
- 1 sprig fresh thyme
- 2 fresh bay leaves (or 1 dried)
- 1 Tbsp brown sugar packed
- 2 Tbsp Farm Boy™ Balsamic Vinegar
