{"id":42,"date":"2015-04-12T14:23:18","date_gmt":"2015-04-12T14:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/intodust.org\/blog\/?p=42"},"modified":"2015-04-13T20:16:28","modified_gmt":"2015-04-13T20:16:28","slug":"homemade-sausage-rolls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/intodust.org\/blog\/homemade-sausage-rolls\/","title":{"rendered":"Homemade Sausage Rolls"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, I\u2019ve been promising all of you a blog post here since January, and thus far, I\u2019ve failed.<\/p>\n

So, I suppose I should start with my long-time love: baking.<\/p>\n

I bake a lot. Those of you who know me know it\u2019s something I do on probably a weekly basis. I make everything from savoury to sweet and (almost) everything in between. I love cooking, too, but that\u2019s a little harder to do on a big scale. Baking is great: it\u2019s the middle ground between cooking for 10+ people and making yourself exhausted and actually getting to get the satisfaction of providing food for other people: something that, I\u2019m relatively sure, is one of human nature\u2019s greatest feelings.<\/p>\n

Every time I make sausage rolls for people, I get many, many questions asked of me. \u201cWhat are those?\u201d \u201cDid you make them?\u201d \u201cThey look bizarre, but they smell so good!\u201d \u201cWhat\u2019s that thing you\u2019re putting on top?\u201d \u201cSERIOUSLY, DID YOU MAKE THOSE?\u201d \u201cI\u2019m so hungry now\u201d, etc et al.<\/p>\n

Homemade sausage rolls are one of my favourite things to make. They\u2019re SUPER easy and really really bad for you – and, truth be told – I\u2019ve really just stolen a recipe from Jamie Oliver. It\u2019s not a secret recipe at all. But it is a recipe that a lot of people are baffled by when I tell them I\u2019ve made it myself.<\/p>\n

But, all that said: here\u2019s the way I make mine.<\/p>\n

not-so-secret-super-easy-quick-sausage-rolls:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Prep time: 20min (minus the homemade filo pastry – but you can cheat and buy premade stuff).<\/em><\/p>\n

– Homemade filo pastry (one batch should be enough) – see quick recipe here<\/a>
\n– A knob of butter
\n– One red onion, diced finely (you can use a yellow onion, if you\u2019re out, but the red onion gives it some colour)
\n– Some sage & nutmeg for seasoning
\n– 6 big butcher\u2019s sausages
\n– Homemade breadcrumbs (a loaf of stale bread chucked into the food processor for a couple mins. you can also use store-bought breadcrumbs, but homemade breadcrumbs are just better – honestly!)
\n– One egg mixed with a few tablespoons of milk, for glazing<\/p>\n

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FIRST! Pre-heat the oven to 180 degrees.<\/p>\n

Melt the butter in a small pan, and chuck the red onion in, along with the sage & the nutmeg. A sprinkling of each will do! When the red onion is soft, place it into a bowl and let it cool.<\/p>\n

Take the sausages out of the casing (so you have the sausage meat), and place them into the bowl along with the red onion. Mix the red onion + the sausage meat with your hands, adding breadcrumbs in until the mixture isn\u2019t too greasy.<\/p>\n

Separate out the filo pastry into small balls, and roll it out into long, thin rectangles. They pastry should be about the thickness of a pound coin. Make sure there\u2019s no holes in the pastry, as this will make rolling the sausage rolls difficult.<\/p>\n

Place some of the sausage meat into the centre of the pastry rectangles, and then roll the pastry so it\u2019s in a roll shape.<\/p>\n

Cut the rolls up into smaller rolls (or as big as you\u2019d like it to be in order to eat it!), and glaze the top with the egg & milk mix.<\/p>\n

Place them onto a pan, chuck them into the oven for 20-25 minutes.<\/p>\n

BAM. Done. Serve with tomato sauce.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Next time, on the baking\u2026 the infamous Tardis Cookies – the gluten free taste sensation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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