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Winning sausage rolls
- Preparation and cooking time
- Prep:
- Cook:
- Easy
- Makes 12 sausage rolls
Ingredients
- 500g sausage meat
- 2/3 finely chopped sweet apple
- 2 finely chopped small chillis
- 2 finely chopped cloves of garlic
- 2 finely sliced spring onion stalks
- 1/2 teaspoon of ground black pepper
- readymade puff pastry
- one beaten egg
Method
- STEP 1Finely slice as small as possible garlic, apple, chilli and spring onion stalks
- STEP 2Add black pepper and mix by hand thoroughly with the sausagemeat
- STEP 3Roll the pastry to 2mm thickness
- STEP 4put the sausage mix into a piping bag and pipe filling onto pastry about the size of a 10p piece - in a line down the pastry
- STEP 5On a separate piece of pastry - cut lines with gaps (not cutting a whole line down the pastry) to make a perforated pattern. Do about 8 rows of this - alternating in a 'brick layout' pattern
- STEP 6Cut a strip to the length of the sausage line... open up the holes from the cuts ans place as the 'roof' of the sausage roll
- STEP 7Cut the edges clean - releasing the spare pastry - and use a fork to crimp the edges
- STEP 8Brush the mixed egg on the whole pastry for colouring
- STEP 9Bake at 180C for 15 minutes
- STEP 10Let cool for 5mins I then use a serrated knife to cut the individual sausage rolls