How do you cook a haggis?

Answer 1

When you purchase a haggis it has already been cooked but needs to be reheated in simmering hot water. The time this takes will vary depending on the size of the Haggis but you needn't worry about overcooking so you can leave a haggis in simmering water for 30-40 minutes without it spoiling. When thoroughly hot dish the haggis slicing open the casing and spoon the contents on to your plates. Serve traditionally with boiled, creamed potato and boiled mashed swede. Serve as a main course at dinner.

A non-traditional way is to remove the casing from the haggis and then to slice the solid contents into medium slices and fry in a frying pan or skillet until hot and golden brown. Very nice for breakfast with bacon and a fried egg.

Answer 2

The traditional Scottish savoury pudding dish of haggis is made by simmering a beef heart for about an hour, and then simmering a beef liver and lamb meat for twenty minutes. Then mixing these ingredients with chopped onions, Scotch whisky, egg nog, and oatmeal. Rinse a beef cap under cold water and soak them in cold water mixed with salt and vinegar for half an hour. Finally, rinse the beef cap again. Take the mixture of beef heart, liver, and lamb meat, and fill the beef cap, tying the end off with a string. Prick the haggis with a thin, sharp object, and place in a steamer for one hour and twenty minutes. The haggis is then ready to be served, typically with an accompaniment of gravy.

Answer 3

Cook it in gently simmering water for about twenty minutes to the pound of Haggis. The contents of the haggis are already precooked so this is more a matter of reheating and ensuring the contents are brought o a good hot condition.

Answer 4

To make a haggis, one needs: heart and lungs of a lamb, sheep's stomach, oatmeal and onion. Place heart and lungs into the stomach, chop the onion, place it into the stomach too along with oatmeal, then put the stomach in a pan with water and boil for three hours then take it out and serve it.

Answer 5

A Haggis is already cooked when you buy it. It simply needs to be reheated in just simmering water for approximately 15 minutes per pound of haggis.

Answer 6

when you're hungry

On Robbie Burns birthday (a famous Scottish Writer)

Answer 7

Haggis is a Scottish dish (offal, spice and oats cooked in sheep's stomach), NOT an animal. Therefore haggis do not eat anything, they are eaten!.