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Food Mains Slow Cooking Traditional Scottish

Slow Cooked Haggis in a Baked Potato & served with Coleslaw

We catch the wee beasties that are the haggis family, on the heathery hills in the highlands of Scotland, where we pluck them mercilessly from their lovely life of gay abandon.

Are you buying this?

Ok, haggis is a lovely, and slightly spicy delicacy that is often said to the national dish of Scotland.

I do frequently get asked the best way to cook haggis.  That could be because I often blog about food, and, being Scottish, there is probably an assumption that we all eat haggis quite often.  A bit like the rumour mill about the deep fried mars bar that only the tourists ever try.

We  normally experience haggis as part of Burns night celebrations, to celebrate the poet Rabbie Burns, so in our family it has usually been restricted to being supplied by other people.  On Burns night, people would traditionally have haggis neeps and tatties (turnips and potatoes).

Macsween sent us one of their haggises to slow cook as a few of us had been talking about it on Twitter.  I did go out and buy another one to go with it, as I thought the 3/4 person haggis was a tad too small for us all as there are 6 of us.   In the end, I think one haggis for about 4 – 5 people would be perfect for us.

On to slow cooking the haggis.

I probably would try cooking it in the slow cooker, but inside some tinfoil next time, but the slow cooked way did work nicely and made the haggis not as dry as skirlie, which is my past experiences of it.  I have to admit, I do struggle with the contents, and as I don’t eat lamb, it’s not for me, but the man, 2 kids and grannie wolfed it down.

Here’s a nice slow cooker haggis recipe for using with a store-bought haggis that has already been cooked.  I’ve added the coleslaw recipe under the haggis one.

Slow Cooked Haggis with Butternut Squash and Baked Potatoes

Lesley S Smith
4 from 2 votes
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Prep Time 10 mins
Cook Time 3 hrs
Total Time 3 hrs 10 mins
Course Lunch
Servings 3 - 4

Ingredients
  

  • 1 Medium Macsween Haggis For 3 – 4 people
  • 1 Medium Butternut Squash or a turnip (Chopped)
  • 1 Medium Onion Finely chopped
  • 1 pint Boiled Water
  • 50 g Coleslaw To serve

Instructions
 

Haggis

  • Take off the outer skin of the haggis and the metal clip.



  • Cut the haggis into slices or chunks.



  • Put the haggis, squash, onion and water into a slow cooker and cook on high for 3 hours.



Baked Potatoes

  • Put baked potatoes in tinfoil and cook in oven at 180c

Haggis

  • Serve as filling for the baked potatoes.

  • Garnish with coleslaw on the top.

Notes

Your haggis will come already cooked, so the goal is to thoroughly reheat it, while cooking the vegetables.
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Coleslaw Salad

Lesley S Smith
Perfect as a side dish with most main meals, or to use in a salad.
4 from 2 votes
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Prep Time 10 mins
Total Time 10 mins
Course Side Dish
Servings 6

Ingredients
  

  • 200 g Carrot Grated
  • 150 g Cabbage Shredded into strips.
  • 150 g Onion Shredded into strips.
  • 2 - 3 tablespoons Mayonnaise or Thousand Island Dressing

Instructions
 

  • Simply shred the cabbage, onion and carrot.



  • Mix with mayonnaise or thousand island dressing.

  • Serve.
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Comments

  1. susie leyens says

    February 17, 2019 at 2:49 pm

    Cooking right now, seems a bit too much water though…hope it turns out ok x

    Reply
  2. Mediocre Mum says

    October 7, 2012 at 5:26 pm

    I’ve never cooked Haggis, but now I’m tempted, I’m sure my hubby would love it. Thanks for joining into Slow Cooker Sunday.

    Reply
    • Scottish Mum says

      October 7, 2012 at 7:43 pm

      You’re welcome. I had five minutes and saw you had a slow cooker sunday up, so just sneaked on x

      Reply
  3. Susan Mann (@susankmann) says

    August 22, 2012 at 5:11 pm

    mmm love haggis, will give this a go x

    Reply
  4. @JeanAked says

    August 21, 2012 at 10:02 pm

    Bookmarked … looks delicious and I love jacket potato so new idea for a filling for me.

    Reply
  5. @Kenzi14 says

    August 21, 2012 at 10:01 pm

    Looks delish !

    Reply
  6. @KirstyHollands says

    August 21, 2012 at 10:00 pm

    What did the children think of it?

    Reply
  7. @Fionacartolina says

    August 21, 2012 at 9:59 pm

    I wish we could get good haggis here 🙁 RT @Scottish_Mum: Slow cooked haggis from @macsweenhaggis http://scottishmum.com/2012/08/slow-cooked-haggis-in-a-baked-potato-served-with-coleslaw/

    Reply
  8. @HazelLCottrell says

    August 21, 2012 at 9:58 pm

    @macsweenhaggis That actually looks amazing!!!!! Must admit I did not expect it too!

    Reply
  9. @CookinginSpain says

    August 21, 2012 at 9:57 pm

    @SevillaTapas @scottish_mum @macsweenhaggis Agree- this does it for me too! Would be perfect with glass of Palo Cortado!!

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  10. @MacsweenHaggis says

    August 21, 2012 at 9:55 pm

    Check out this lovely recipe & write up from Lesley Smith aka ‘Scottish Mum’ blogger extraordinar! @Scottish_Mum http://scottishmum.com/2012/08/slow-cooked-haggis-in-a-baked-potato-served-with-coleslaw/

    Reply
  11. sarsm says

    August 20, 2012 at 11:00 am

    I haven’t had haggis in a very long time – being an expat.

    I had a friend, a long time ago who did actually used to eat deep fried mars bars. He’s the only person I knew who did. He’s unsurprisingly obese now.

    Reply
  12. Claire says

    August 19, 2012 at 7:48 pm

    4 stars
    Oh that sounds great! My 10 year old son was pretty impressed with his creation at lunchtime today – haggis toastie with cheese and sweet chilli sauce!!!

    Reply
    • Scottish Mum says

      August 19, 2012 at 8:09 pm

      Haggis toasties would suit middler pretty well.

      Reply

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