Baking Scotch eggs in a very hot oven is a healthier way to enjoy this savory treat.Frankly, it’s hard to produce a healthy rendering of a Scotch egg. But let’s give it a go, because these delicious little calorie bombs are just too tempting.
For anyone not familiar with them, a Scotch egg is a hard-boiled egg that is coated in in sausage, then deep-fried. They can be eaten cold or — to add a few more calories — hot with a side of gravy. However you eat them, the end result is a salty-savory-crunchy-tender-meaty ball of wonderful.
There’s really only one place to cut back on the calories — the frying. If you cut the egg or the sausage, it simply isn’t a Scotch egg. But the frying is a possibility, especially since eliminating it also will make Scotch eggs easier to make.
And it turned out that baking the eggs in a very hot oven works nicely, producing a perfectly crisp outer coating without overcooking the tender egg inside.
Baked Scotch Eggs
7 eggs, divided