British

Toad in the Hole

Name: Toad in the Hole
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 8 pork sausages; 1 cup all purpose flour; 2 eggs; 1 cup milk; 3 tbsp vegetable oil; 1 onion; 1.5 cups beef stock; 1/2 tsp salt; 1/4 tsp black pepper

Margaret @margaret_yorkshire

Toad in the Hole is British home cooking, eaten at dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

45 min Medium

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

8 pork sausages
1 cup all purpose flour
2 eggs
1 cup milk
3 tbsp vegetable oil
1 onion
1.5 cups beef stock
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 tsp black pepper

How to cook it

Whisk the flour, eggs, and milk together with a pinch of salt to a smooth batter and let rest 20 minutes.
Heat the oven to 425F and pour the oil into a roasting dish.
Add the sausages to the dish and roast until beginning to brown, about 10 minutes.
Pour the batter around the sausages and bake until well risen and golden, about 25 minutes, without opening the oven door.
Meanwhile slice the onion and cook in a small pan until soft and golden, about 10 minutes, then stir in the beef stock and simmer to a gravy, about 5 minutes.
Season the gravy with salt and pepper and serve the toad in the hole hot, with the onion gravy spooned over.

Watch how to cook Toad in the Hole

Someone making it start to finish, so you can see what the steps look like.

Toad in the hole - a British classic! Play the video

Serve it with

A British dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Toad in the Hole, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

The cooked vegetable
- Cauliflower Cheese
  
  40 min
What it is eaten with
- British Mashed Potatoes
  
  30 min

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Toad in the Hole carries dairy, gluten, and eggs. It is free of the remaining 7 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Toad in the Hole
Allergen	In this dish	Cook this instead
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	Yes	Chicken Salad with New Potatoes
Gluten	Yes	Bubble and Squeak
Shellfish	No
Eggs	Yes	Bubble and Squeak
Soy	No
Fish	No
Sesame	No
Coconut	No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Estimated, per serving

Calories: 570 kcal
Protein: 26 g
Carbs: 35 g
Fat: 36 g
Fiber: 1 g
Sugar: 3 g
Sodium: 980 mg
Saturated fat: 12 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Toad in the Hole takes about 45 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at dinner. It is at its best in winter, which is when what goes into it is worth buying.