Recipe · Sausages

Vegan Toad in the Hole

Browned sausages baked into a crisp-edged batter, served with onion gravy.

Prep
15 min
Cook
45 min
Serves
4
Effort
Medium

Vegan

A risen Yorkshire pudding batter with meat-free sausages baked into it, on a white plate
A vegetarian toad in the hole with meat-free sausages; this recipe makes a fully vegan version. Photo: Ben Sutherland, CC BY 2.0

Toad in the hole without eggs sounds like a challenge, but a batter of flour, gram flour, baking powder and soya milk poured into smoking-hot oil gives you crisp, golden edges and a soft middle. It won't tower quite like the classic, but with good sausages and a jug of onion gravy, nobody complains.

Ingredients

For 4 servings.

  • 8 vegan sausages
  • 4 tbsp vegetable oil
  • 140g plain flour
  • 3 tbsp gram (chickpea) flour
  • 1½ tsp baking powder
  • ½ tsp salt
  • 300ml unsweetened soya milk
  • 1 tsp wholegrain mustard
  • few sprigs fresh thyme (leaves picked)
  • to serve onion gravy (see our sausage and mash recipe)
  • to serve greens or peas

Method

  1. Whisk the plain flour, gram flour, baking powder and salt together. Gradually whisk in the soya milk and mustard to make a smooth batter the thickness of double cream. Rest for 15 minutes.
  2. Heat the oven to 220°C (200°C fan), gas 7. Put the oil in a roasting tin about 20 × 30cm and heat in the oven for 10 minutes.
  3. Add the sausages to the hot oil, turn to coat and roast for 10 minutes until they start to brown.
  4. Take the tin out, working quickly and carefully, and pour the batter around the sausages — it should sizzle. Scatter over the thyme.
  5. Return to the oven and bake for 25–30 minutes until the batter is golden and crisp at the edges. Don't open the oven door for the first 20 minutes.
  6. Check the sausages are piping hot, then cut into portions and serve with onion gravy and greens.

Good to know

  • The oil must be smoking hot when the batter goes in — that's what gives you crisp edges.
  • Use a metal tin rather than ceramic; it gets hotter and gives a better crust.

Check every label: stocks, sauces, breads and pastries sometimes contain milk, egg or fish. Cook until piping hot all the way through.

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