One of my favourite parts of Christmas is the party food and festive treats. I especially love a warming sausage roll – delicious! Each year I like to make my own to have around Christmas and add some festive flavours too.
These cheat sausage rolls use ready-made puff pastry and sausages to save time and still deliver on flavour. At the end of the day, this time of year is always so busy!
Makes 8 sausage rolls
Ingredients
- 400g pork and apple sausages (or you can sub for veggie sausages)
- 30g dried stuffing mix
- 2 tbsp cranberry sauce
- 1 medium egg
- Sesame seeds to garnish
Method
- Put the stuffing mix in a small bowl. Add 60ml boiling water, mix well and set aside to cool.
- Place your sausages in a bowl and mash with a fork. Add the cooled stuffing and mix well.
- Unroll the puff pastry sheet. Cut in half lengthwise.
- Form the meat mixture into long sausages along the length of each of the pastry rectangles slightly to the right of centre.
- Dot the cranberry sauce over the sausages.
- Brush a small amount of the egg mixture around the edge of both rectangles.
- Fold the pastry over the meat to create the sausage roll shape.
- Press lightly all along the edges with a fork. Trim the edges with a sharp knife to neaten up, if necessary.
- Brush all over the sausage rolls with egg, then scatter with sesame seeds.
- Preheat the oven to 200°C.
- Place the rolls in the fridge for 10 minutes to firm up.
- Trim the ends, as minimally as possible, then slice each of the sausage rolls into four to create eight sausage rolls in total.
- Place on two lined baking sheets, well spaced. Bake for 25 – 30 minutes or until they have turned a deep golden brown.
- Enjoy!
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