This easy homemade sausage rolls recipe is the best ever! Buttery pastry filled with flavorful sausage makes this a perfect appetizer, for entertaining, as snack or even a meal. This recipe include 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.
Add flour, salt, nutmeg in a mixing bowl. Mix well.
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..
Mold into 2 balls, put in the bowl, cover with cling film and put in the fridge to rest for 30 minutes.
HOW TO MAKE SAUSAGE ROLLS
Remove sausages from it's 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 thie step but i like to add black pepper and seasoning cube to mine.
Bring out pastry from the fridge. Cut out a section from it.
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.
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).
Cut the rolled pastry into equal or different sizes depending on how big or small you want them (mini sausages or full size) and place on a parchment lined tray.
Use pizza cutter to makes slashes on the sausage rolls then brush with egg white for a shiny finish.
Bake in preheated oven at 160C for 25 minutes or till sausage rolls are done.
Bring out of the oven, serve and enjoy.
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