Sausage Rolls

These are a great party snack or just a snack for a random time in the day. And best of all, you can flavour them however you want, by adding different herbs and spices to the sausage meat.

What You Need

350g pork sausage meat

35cm x 32cm roll puff pastry

1 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon pepper

2 teaspoons Italian herbs

1/3 finely diced onion

1 medium egg

1/2 tablespoon water

1/2 tablespoon milk

1 teaspoon olive oil

These ingredients are enough to make 27 sausae rolls

How You Make It

Preheat the oven to 180oC and grease/line 2 baking trays. First, fry off the onions so that when they are in the sausage, they won’t be hard. To do that, heat up the oil in a small frying pan and add the onions to that. Put on a medium-high heat for 5 minutes whilst you put the rest of the ingredients in the bowl to mix.

Place the sausage meat in a small mixing bowl and add the salt, pepper, and herbs. When the onions have been in the pan for 5 minutes and have softened up a little bit, add them to the mixing bowl as well. Mix the sausage meat and the other contents of the bowl with your hands, just so they are combined.

Now roll out your pastry onto a pastry board or if you don’t have one, a clean work surface, as a chopping board won’t be big enough. Cut the pastry into 3 parts lengthways, about 1.5 inches wide, and 9 parts the other way, about 0.75 inches wide. In total, you should have 27 pieces. Make small balls of sausage meat in your hands and roll in between your fingers and place on one end of the pastry slices and repeat that for the rest of them.

Pinch the 2 short edges of each slice of pastry to seal them up and then carefully place them onto the lined tray. To help them bake better and get a more golden colour when they come out of the oven, you should brush them with egg wash. To make the egg wash, crack the egg onto a small bowl and ass the water and milk and beat together. Then get a pastry brush and dip it into the egg wash and brush onto each sausage roll; before placing them in the oven for 20-25 minutes.

When they come out of the oven, place them on a cooling rack, and as they are quite small, they will cool quickly. You could eat them hot out of the oven, or you could let them cool down and save them for later. Enjoy, whenever you eat them!!