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Home made Sausage Rolls

We had an awesome weekend doing a wine trail in Martinborough on our push bikes with some good friends. Great way to see the Wairarapa. Called in at Scotty's to buy some beautiful meat and had a blast cooking them on the barbecue. I thought we could never get through the pile of food, but the boys gobbled up the very last morsel. Good one, Scotty!

What has this to do with sausage rolls? Meat and summer. Sausage roll is a must have at every party and picnic. It's not exactly caviar but it never pretends to be. Sausage rolls are unassuming and down to earth but can be easily jazzed up with just a few ingredients.

Home made sausage rolls


Ingredients:
1/4 Onion
12 Sausages*
1/4 cup Parsley
1 clove Garlic
2 sheets Flaky puff pastry
Chili flakes to sprinkle
Fennel seeds to sprinkle
Sesame seeds to sprinkle
1 Egg

Steps:
1. Turn oven on to 220 degrees celsius.
2. Chopped onion and garlic finely.
3. Chop parsley roughly.
4. Beat egg lightly with a fork.
5. Cut off the ends of the sausages so that they are flat.
6. Cut pastry sheet into half (or wide enough to wrap a piece of sausage with 1 cm overlay).
7. Sprinkle pastry with onion, parsley, garlic, chili flakes and fennel seeds.
8. Lay sausages on the pastry. Cut pastry according to the length of the sausages.
9. Dab the sides of the pastry with egg. Roll the pastry over the sausage and press hard to seal the edges.
10. Cut sausage roll into an inch thick (or however thickyou like). Glaze sausage rolls with egg. Sprinkle sesame seeds on top.
11. Bake in oven for 20 mins or until golden brown.

* I used precooked sausages but any type would work.

Tips:
Don't chuck out the ends of the sausage rolls. Chop them up and use in pizzas. Or, simply fry them in a pan till crispy. Makes a nice snack.
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