Easy Sausage Rolls Recipe

This easy homemade sausage rolls recipe is the best ever! Buttery pastry filled with flavorful sausage makes this a perfect appetizer, for entertaining, as a snack or even a meal. This recipe includes how to make the pastry from scratch but you can also use store-bought puff pastry. Let me show you in easy steps plus video directions on how to make sausage rolls from scratch.

 
Sausage rolls remain one of our favorite pastries. It's just so tasty and easy to make. My husband and the children love when I make it. They all just love eating mum's super homemade sausage rolls. We have it as a main meal or snack. Usually, when it's fresh from the oven, it's the main meal then leftovers for snacking the following day. It usually doesn't last more than 24 hours in my house..we gobble it all up!

I make the shortcrust pastry from scratch just how I love it and believe me it is not hard to make. It takes less than 5 minutes to make your own pastry but if you'd rather use store-bought puff pastry, that's just fine.

This recipe is so easy to make and the only work is rolling the pastry to fill with sausage. We don't eat pork so I use chicken or beef sausages but you can go ahead and use pork sausage. 

WHY THIS IS THE BEST HOMEMADE SAUSAGE ROLLS

There are different types of sausage rolls i.e how they are made, we have British sausage rolls, Scottish sausage rolls amongst others mostly made with puff pastry. This is probably not your typical puff pastry sausage rolls but this is how I make mine and it's one of the most delicious, easiest sausage rolls recipes you will find around. Let me just hint you why it's the best sausage rolls recipe:

Easy, quick, and straightforward recipe.

Homemade pastry that is easy to make, buttery,  and absolutely delicious. 

You have control over the ingredients. You determine how much sausage you want in the pastry. Thick, average or barely there.. the choice is yours! 

Mini sausages or full size - You can make whichever size you like or make both.

No artificial preservative.

Failproof recipe.

Homemade is just the best.

SAUSAGE ROLLS RECIPE

I like to make my shortcrust from scratch but use store-bought sausages that I re-season.

Like I mentioned earlier, I don't eat pork so I use either chicken or beef sausages but you can use pork sausages for this recipe, it will work just fine. So let's get to it.

First, you'll need the below tools.

TOOLS YOU WILL NEED

Mixing bowl

Rolling pin

Pastry brush

Pizza cutter

Oven tray 

Parchment paper

INGREDIENTS

You need less than 10 ingredients for both the pastry and the sausage rolls. Detailed ingredient list, directions, and video in the printable recipe card at the bottom of this post.

Flour

Butter

Nutmeg - Optional

Salt

Egg

Water

Sausages - I use chicken or beef sausage as I do not eat pork but you can use pork or any other type of sausage.

Black pepper

Seasoning cube

CAN I USE PLAIN FLOUR FOR THIS RECIPE

Yes, you can but you will need to add baking powder. Add a teaspoon of baking powder to every 125g plain flour.

HOW TO MAKE PASTRY FOR SAUSAGE ROLLS

Now let's talk about this pastry. This pastry is not puff pastry but you can use store bought puff pastry. This is shortcrust and how I like my sausage rolls crust. It is buttery and crumbly and takes less than 5 minutes to make no lies! Here is how:

1) Add flour, salt, nutmeg in a mixing bowl. Mix well.

2) Add in butter and mix till you get crumb-like texture then add egg yolk and water. Mix together.

You only just need to mix enough to get the ingredients together. Don't overwork the dough.

3) Mold into 2 balls, put in the bowl, cover with cling film and put in the fridge to rest for 30 minutes.

The pastry will feel soft to touch don't be tempted to add more flour.

4) Now you have the pastry or your store-bought or homemade puff pastry, let's get to how to make sausage rolls.

HOW TO MAKE SAUSAGE ROLLS

1) Remove sausages from its casing and add in a bowl. Add black pepper and seasoning, mix well then set aside. 

Be careful not to make the sausages salty. Most of the sausages are pre-seasoned and you can skip this step but I like to add black pepper and seasoning cube to mine.

2) Bring out the pastry from the fridge. Cut out a section from it.

3) Put on a lightly floured surface then roll out the dough with a rolling pin to about ¼ of an inch thin. Trim dough into rectangular shape.

4) Put seasoned sausage meat in a straight line along the edge of the rectangle pastry. Roll the pastry and before getting to the edge, add egg white to the edges to seal (See visuals in videos below)

5) Cut the rolled pastry into equal or different sizes depending on how big or small you want it and place on a parchment lined tray.

6) Use a pizza cutter to makes slashes on the sausage rolls then brush with egg white for a shiny finish.

Repeat till you use up the pastry and sausage.

7) Bake in preheated oven at 160C for 25 minutes or till sausage rolls are done.

8) Bring out of the oven, serve, and enjoy.

WHAT TO SERVE WITH 

Drinks like

Sorrel drink

Infused water

Strawberry lemonade

Dalgona Whipped Coffee

HOW TO STORE

To store, put in the freezer or ziplock bags, and put in the fridge where it will last for up to 3 days. Sausage rolls freeze well and can be stored in the freezer for up to 3 months.

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