Homemade Sausage Rolls

Now this isn’t the healthiest of meals but I like doing better variations of bad foods because the man of the house lives for junk. I also want this blog to be a true reflection of me and my family life.

Most of the cooking I do is with the “help” of a toddler. Even though it takes way longer and we make a huge mess it’s one of her favourite things to do and now that we’ve added photography, her other favourite thing she couldn’t be happier. 

This is such a basic recipe and is entirely customisable, they’re great with cheese, bacon, more/different veggies, herbs, anything you want.

So, before I keep blabbing, this is how you do it.

You only need 5 ingredients; puff pastry, sausage meat (or mince if you’d prefer), carrot, egg and garlic.

Grate the carrots and crush the garlic and mix all ingredients together, this is the reason I hate making these cause the only way to mix them properly is to get your hands in there, kids are normally a blessing here cause they’ll love to help. But alas, my child inherited my aversion to being dirty so she used a spoon.

Once it’s all mixed in wash your hands really well and lay out the pastry sheets, put the mixture onto the pastry.

And then all that’s left to do is roll them up and poke a few holes in the top for decoration, or let your toddler destroy them with a fork, like so.

Then you just need some eggwash to brown the tops and throw them in the oven for 20 minutes.

Sausage Rolls

Prep: 10mins               Cook: 25 mins                    

Makes:24

Ingredients:

•    5 sheets of puff pastry
• 2 carrots
•  2 cloves garlic
•  1 roll sausage meat
• 1 egg, more for wash

Method:

1. Grate carrot and crush garlic
2. Hand mix all ingredients (except pastry) in a large bowl
3. Put rolls of sausage mix on pastry sheets
4. Roll and hold together with eggwash
5. Eggwash top of each roll
6. Poke rolls with a fork for decoration
7. Cut each one into 5 pieces and bake for 20-25 minutes
8. Let cool and enjoy