

You can even prepare these the day before and keep them in the fridge until you want to serve them. The timing of the eggs to keep them runny is crucial and cooling them under cold running water is a must or they continue cooking. Image and recipe for Sausages and bubble & squeak with onion gravy from is a great way to serve a duck or hen’s egg, a bit like egg mayonnaise with a crisp texture. So why not lighten the load by substituting the baked spud for bubble & squeak?

Mix and freeze: While your leftovers are still warm, chop the larger cooked vegetables and fold them into the mashed potato, adding any other tasty bits and pieces you've got in the fridge (meat, fish, etc).You have a little cold fish? Fold it in! Green peas and roasted parsnips? Perfect! Even cold Brussels sprouts can sit happily in the mix. It's an equal opportunities dish: Only got some cold mashed potato and cabbage? No problem.In fact, bubble & squeak, so named for the lovely noises it makes while cooking, isn't a purely British phenomenon – it has culinary relatives around the world, such as bauernfrühstück (Germany), stovies (Scotland), roupa velha (Portugal), hash (USA) and biksemad (Denmark)! Yes, we're talking leftovers – primarily mashed potatoes, greens and other vegetables – all mushed together and shallow fried to crisp perfection, but when a dish is this tasty, there's no room for gastronomic snobbery. First mentioned in an 1806 recipe book by Maria Rundell, the classic British dish known as bubble & squeak is a thrifty and hugely tasty classic that's a real Christmas must-have, especially served as a Boxing Day breakfast with a lovely runny organic egg and some toast soliders!
