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13 Comments This easy version of a toad in a hole is absolutely not traditional. I might try my hand at an actual ‘real’ toad in a hole recipe but for now I have a paleo proof version of the original. Since toad in a hole is more or less a hidden sausage in pastry this is a hidden (well not so well hidden) sausage in an egg mixture.
Toad in a hole recipe
So let’s start by explaining a little bit what toad in a hole really is. No it is not an actual toad (yuck! Imagine that!) but traditionally this English dish is sausages baked in Yorkshire pudding batter. Which I’m sure is delicious, but I wanted to make something similar that was also gluten free and lactose free. So I ended up with this paleo version of the toad in a hole. Which is nothing like the original but also strangely similar. Just with different ingredients.
Hiding the sausages
This recipe is really quite simple. You use good sausages, that is step one. And you pour an egg mixture around the sausage while baking it all in the oven until done. Traditionally toad in a hole is served with onion gravy and vegetables. I made caramelized onions to go with it. And roasted vegetables, which you do not see in the photo. But imagine they are there!
Tasty and easy
While this dish doesn’t look all that sexy, it is actually quite tasty and delicious. Especially combined with the sweet onions this is a good dish to serve for breakfast, lunch or dinner. It’s pretty flexible as I would say a lot of the paleo recipes are. And this one is no exception.
Toad in a hole recipe (paleo version)
Ingredients
- 8 pcs pork sausages of good quality or chipolata sausages
- 4 eggs
- 1 tsp mustard powder
- 50 ml coconut milk
- 150 gr green peas
- 1 red chili very thinly sliced and deseeded
- 2 tbsp olive oil
For the onion gravy:
- 20 gr coconut oil
- 2 onions sliced in thin rings
- 1 clove garlic thinly sliced
- 50 ml chicken stock
- 100 ml balsamic vinegar
- few drops of tobasco
Instructions
- Preheat oven at 200°C/400˚F. Pour the olive oil in a shallow baking tray and cover the bottom of this tray with a thin layer of oil. Place the sausages in the tray and cook for ten minutes in the oven.
- Mean while whisk the eggs with the mustard powder, salt and pepper and add some coconut milk.
- Get the baking dish out of the oven and gently pour the egg mixture next to the sausages. Then carefully drop the peas and chili slices in the egg mix. Put back in the oven and let it cook till the egg mix is firm. After 15 minutes check every five minutes if the egg is set.
- When the 'toad in the hole' is cooking make the Onion gravy. Melt the coconut oil in a frying pan. Toss in the onion rings and garlic, add salt and pepper to taste and sauté in medium heat for about 10 minutes. Pour in the balsamic vinegar and let it simmer for a few minutes. Stir and add chicken stock now and let the it reduce until you got a nice and thick gravy. Finish off by adding salt, pepper and tabasco to taste.
- Get the baking dish from the oven and serve with the onion gravy and some boiled vegetables on the side.
Nutrition Information per portion:
Disclaimer:
The nutritional values above are calculated per portion. The details are based on standard nutritional tables and do not constitute a professional nutritional advice.
That is a pretty good supplant for sausage and Yorkshire pudding with works! 🙂 I love your Tuesday posts! Since, I am largely grain free (because of wheat allergy), I love giving my guy ideas from you, so, he can pamper me.. hehe
Hi Asha. Glad to have been of service. 🙂
Let your dude surf to this column every Tuesday and 9 out of 10 times he will make dinner for the both of you 😉
I feel your pain Tom!! When is summer ever going to arrive?? Friends in Switzerland had SNOW not two weeks ago. Snow. In May. WTF?? But until the warmer weather arrives and the dudes can throw hunks of meat on the fire, this (astonishingly!) Paleo-friendly toad in the hole will do very nicely, thanks 😉
Glad to have been of service. 🙂
If you like this Paleo dish, you should definitely watch me go all ‘bazongas’ if the sun kicks in and I can do my Caveman thing on the BBQ.
Yes it’s great you have found a paleo version of this Tom. I love Toad in a hole and this looks awesome.
Thanks! And it’s also quite tasty… for a diet dish 😉
Tom was very sad that you thought he ‘found’ the recipe… Lol.. He has been painstakingly creating the recipe himself, taking all my do’s and don’t into account!
I tried a whole paleo menu, it was a fine dining in London, sometime ago. I must admit the savory dishes were quite tasty, but the desserts were a little bit a let down. Your recipe looks very appetizing. R
Desserts and paleo don’t make a match indeed. If you are lucky, you’ll end up with a dried apple for dessert, LOL!
But then again, no dessert leaves more room for main course, hehe….
One of my favorite dishes! This paleo version looks delicious.
Cheers,
Rosa
It also tastes delicious 😉
I don’t really ‘get’ this paleo diet fad thang – but this does look good. I haven’t had toad-in-the-hole for an absolute age; time to rectify I think.
I can’t understand anything from everything with the word ‘diet’ in it, but for now it’s like the saying: If life gives you lemonade…
Only in this case it goes like:; If life give you diets, you gotta make toad in the hole LOL.