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A simple pastry treat for vegetarians and meat-eaters alike. Who doesn’t love a good sausage roll!
Simple to make, easy to prep ahead and always the first to go at the buffet table or kids party.
I often make simple meaty sausage rolls using ready rolled puff pastry and good quality skinned sausages. I guess i’d apply the term ‘home-made’ pretty loosely since I’m not making my own pastry or grinding up my own meat mixture. But despite the measly 10 minutes or so of prep, they come out of the oven golden, flaky, crispy and way better then anything you’d get from the refrigerated aisle at the supermarket.
I wanted to be able to prepare something just as simple and quick for the non-meat eaters too, and this recipe hits the mark perfectly. In fact, I might even go so far as to say I like them better than the meaty ones!
The filling is a mix of:
- Cheese – vegetarian cheese of course, but a lot of the regular cheddar cheeses are vegetarian nowadays
- Breadcrumbs -to give stability to the mixture and to prevent the cheese just melting out of the sides in a greasy mess
- Cream – well that’s for creaminess, but also to help to bind the mixture together
- Also spring onions (scallions), black pepper and paprika for flavour and colour
So we do have a few more ingredients than the meaty sausage rolls, but we’re only talking 3 or 4 minutes extra prep to make something that I’m much more comfortable calling ‘home-made’
They make a great picnic food or kids lunch too.
I particularly like these as something the kids can make themselves with minimal help – which is a lifesaver during the summer holidays. Getting my five and eight-year-olds to make lunch (I just grate the cheese and put the rolls in the oven when they’re made -they can chop up the spring onions themselves using clean children’s scissors) is a great way to keep them entertained, and to make them feel proud of their creations. Granted, they’re not quite as neatly rolled (in fact in some cases they’re more like cheese pastry sandwiches – squashed flat with little hands!), but they taste just as good!
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Vegetarian Sausage Rolls That Meat-Eaters Love Too! Prep time 15 mins Cook time 15 mins Total time 30 mins A simple pastry treat for vegetarians and meat-eaters alike. Really easy to make at the same time as meaty sausage rolls - to keep all your guests happy. Author: Nicky @ Kitchensanctuary.com Recipe type: Appetizer Serves: 24 Ingredients 1 x 320g (11.25oz) pack of ready-rolled puff pastry 200g (2 cups) grated mature cheddar cheese 50g (1 cup) panko breadcrumbs 5 spring onions/scallions, chopped 2 tbsp double/heavy cream ¼ tsp black pepper ¼ tsp paprika 1 egg, lightly whisked Instructions Preheat the oven to 220c/425f. Roll out the pastry and cut lengthways into two rectangles. In a large bowl, mix together the cheese, breadcrumbs, spring onions, cream, black pepper and paprika. Divide the mixture into two and dot the mixture in a long strip long the length of each piece of pastry (so it looks like you have one long sausage in the center of each of the pastry lengths). Make surethe mixture reaches right up to the ends. Use your fingers to squash it into more of a sausage shape. Take one of the lengths of pastry, so it's lying on the surface, horizontally in front of you. Brush a little of the beaten egg onto the top edge of the pastry - all along the length. Then starting from the bottom edge, roll the pastry up with the cheese mixture in the middle. Try to make sure it's quite tight. The egg you brushed on should help the pastry stick together when rolled up. Repeat with the other length of pastry. Use a fork to squash down the seam of the rolls - so it sticks better, then turn the rolls over, so that the seam is at the bottom. Now brush egg wash over the length of both rolls. Cut each roll into 10-12 pieces, then prick the top of each one with a fork. Place the little rolls onto a large baking tray - making sure there's a little bit of room around each roll (as they will expand in the oven). Then place in the oven for 12-15 minutes until golden brown. Servewarm, or cold. 3.3.3077
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