Haggis

[TheDevil]

Shall I boil or microwave my haggis?

What’s the best method?

[sunny-dave]

Fried left over haggis in a pitta bread with some green crap - fusion food :)

[Cloverjo]

It’s the only food I’ve eaten that has left me feeling hungry and overfed at the same time.

[Tilly2]

Have an Aberdeen Angus steak instead.

[Old_Geezer]

Left over haggis ? Surely that's as rare as left over wine (or hen's teeth).

[pastafreak]

Oh my...mine was lovely. The rest will go straight in the freezer...before I nibble away at it and it's GONE.

[Atheist]

Do any of you know what is in haggis?

[Old_Geezer]

Pluck, oatmeal. But who cares when it tastes so good ?

[sunny-dave]

"Do any of you know what is in haggis? "

I have mine specially made from the chopped innards of Vegans, wrapped in a thick skin of sanctimony ...

[Atheist]

Maybe you should explain what pluck is, OG.

[pastafreak]

// sunny-dave

"Do any of you know what is in haggis? " 

I have mine specially made from the chopped innards of Vegans, wrapped in a thick skin of sanctimony ...//

I almost lost my wine there...

[douglas9401]

What's 'in haggis' is usually but not always heather shoots and bracken.

What's on the plate should be the whole animal, plucked, shaved and de-clawed. All that should be left on the plate are bones which can be boiled up for a nourishing broth along with pearl barley, cubed turnip and tatties and a good splash of the cratur.

[Old_Geezer]

Lamb liver, heart, lungs.

No doubt herbs & spices too.

Mmmmm...

[jno]

for breakfast, just spread marmalade on it, TD. Keiller is best, still available from antiquaries. The full Scottish.

[TheDevil]

JNO that sounds horrific! haha, I fried it up as a black pudding substitute when having a big fat oily fry up on Sunday morn.

Was a right shame though, I didn't have any beans in the hoose.

[curlyhair]

When you buy haggis it has actually already been cooked, but you must heat it up and serve it hot when you take it home and there are three methods for doing this, cooking in water, the oven and in the microwave. Haggis should always be served piping hot and kept moist while cooking.

[TheDevil]

Yeah that was what the packet said Curly :) I chose to boil it because it was the longest method for cooking ,and usually this is the best method to help encase flavours and moisture.

When it was done, some of the haggis was slightly pink. I don't have it often and never notices it to have pink hues before, but I ate it still and it was scummy. I didn't think it was pink because it was under cooked more just some puck.