Scotch Egg

I saw the recipe "Fried Sausage Wrapped Hard Boiled Eggs" in one of the food site. It looks so easy to make and all the ingredients are  available in my kitchen including the 6 hard boiled eggs that I cooked day before that was kept in the refrigerator. I always have hard boiled eggs that I eat anytime I want. So right there and then, I prepared all the ingredients. But wait, I ran out of flour, so I used pancake mix instead of all purpose flour and the finish product was great.

I Google the recipe and found out about a handful of site with exactly the same photos and posts, I wonder who is the original poster. What amazed me was that the egg recipe is actually known as a "Scotch Egg", a popular picnic food in the UK. Scotch eggs  consist of a hard boiled egg, wrapped in sausage meat, then covered in bread crumbs and either deep fried or baked and can be served warm or cold. 

Ingredients:

1. 6 hard-boiled eggs.
2. 500g (1.1 lbs) sausage, I used Jimmy Dean pork sausage.
3. 1/4 cup pancake mix or 1/4 cup all purpose flour.
4. 2 eggs, beaten
5. 3/4 cup panko bread crumbs
6. Salt and pepper to taste.  
7. Cooking oil for deep frying

Directions:

• Boil eggs, peel and let stay in the refrigerator, chill to firm up.
• Divide sausage into 6 portions and flatten each.
• Roll each egg in pancake mix or AFP.
• Wrap eggs with sausage.
• Beat eggs well, Season with salt and pepper. Don't put too much because the sausage has a salty taste already.
• Dip sausage-wrapped into eggs and roll in panko bread crumbs.
• Heat oil over medium-high heat.
• Cook eggs until golden brown turning once in a while to cook evenly.
• Serve cold or warm with a side salad or a vinegar dip.

Cooking Tips:

• Quail or duck eggs can be used too. 
• Rolling the eggs to wet and dry ingredients can become messy,you can solve this problem by using one hand for handling the wet ingredients and one hand for the dry ones.