These super easy, kid-friendly Homemade Sausage Rolls are crispy and delicious. They're perfect for lunch, an after school snack and make the perfect Aussie party food!
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Delicious Homemade Sausage Rolls
They may not be gourmet, but they are delicious! A crispy puff pastry shell with a seasoned beef or pork filling that doesn't last long in my house! Feel free to double the recipe and freeze some for later. Or make a double batch when you have friends over -they're the perfect game-day savoury snack and always make an appearance for the AFL Grand Final at my house.
The Best Sausage Roll Recipe
I love this Homemade Sausage Roll recipe because it's simple to make, the taste is insane and it's a great crowd-pleaser! There's nothing fancy, the pastry is store-bought and everything can be found in your local supermarket. Plus you can make a great big batch and freeze them for when you need a perfect party food favourite.
Ingredients for Easy Homemade Sausage Rolls
These sausage rolls are meant to be easy. Nothing fussy here, just a few simple staples:
Store-bought Puff Pastry: cooks up into puffy, golden and crispy deliciousness. Puff pastry sheets in Australia come in 25 x 25cm / 10 x 10" squares. Cut them in half to make 6 25 x 12.5cm / 10 x 5" rectangles.
Sausage Mince: choose either pork, beef, or a combination of both. I get mine from my local butcher, but all supermarkets carry sausage mince -just check the ingredients to make sure it's not filled with nasties
Garlic and Onion: sautéed until golden caramel, for a gorgeously sweet savoury flavour
Parsley: for flavour, but fennel or rosemary works well too
Salt and Pepper: for seasoning
Egg: 1 for binding the ingredients, plus a yolk for glazing the pastry. Use the egg white for making Meringues
Sesame Seeds: for texture, flavour and for the iconic homemade sausage roll look
Tips for making the best Homemade Sausage Rolls
Place the pastry sheets on your bench or chopping board, keeping the plastic sheet underneath. Or place the pastry onto a square of baking paper. This will be easier for you to lift the pastry when rolling
Disposable gloves make mixing the mince much cleaner and easier
Piping sausages onto the pastry is much easier and cleaner than forming logs with your hands
Cutting each sausage in half, then each half into thirds, gives you evenly sized sausage rolls
I hope this easy Homemade Sausage Rolls recipe and that they're as popular in your house as they are in mine! Save it for when you need an easy lunch or a perfect party food recipe
500gSausage MinceI buy mine from my local butcher, but pork or beef sausage mince from the supermarket is fine
1Onionfinely diced
2clovesGarlicminced
2tablespoonParsleyfresh, finely chopped
1Egg yolk
3sheetsReady made puff pastry
1Egglightly whisked, for glazing
Salt and pepperfreshly ground, to taste
1tablespoonSesame seedsfor sprinkling
Instructions
Pre-heat oven to 200°C/390°F or 180° Fan
Place frozen pastry sheets on work bench and leave aside while you make the filling (if you leave the plastic sheet underneath the pastry, it will be easier to roll it up.
In a small pan, melt the butter and sauté the onion and garlic until soft and just lightly golden (about 5 minutes)
To a mixing bowl, add the sausage mince, onion and garlic, parsley, salt, pepper and egg yolk.
Wearing disposable gloves, mix the ingredients by hand, then either divide into 6 balls or place the mixture into a large piping bag
Shape each ball into a sausage, placing it lengthways across each of the pastry rectangles. Alternatively, pipe a sausages onto each rectangle
Using a pastry brush, use the extra egg to brush along the long edge of each pastry sheet. This will seal the pastry once it's rolled up.
Tightly roll the pastry over the sausage mixture, finishing at the edge that's been brushed with the egg. Press down to seal the edges, then use a serrated knife to cut each long roll into 6 smaller sausage rolls ( or cut to desired length, for larger sausage rolls). You can use the plastic sheet under the pastry to help you form the rolls -just peel it away once you've got the roll started.
Place the sausage rolls onto a lined baking sheet and brush the rolls with the egg and sprinkle with sesame seeds.
Bake for 30-35 minutes, until golden.
Notes
Puff pastry sheets in Australia comes 25 x 25cm / 10 x 10" squares. Cut them in half to make 6 25 x 12.5cm / 10 x 5" rectangles.
I like to use a disposable piping bag to pipe the mixture onto the pastry sheets, as it's much cleaner. Once in the piping bag, cut an opening at around the 4cm mark of the bag
An easy way to cut each roll into 6 is by cutting it in half, then each half into thirds
Uncooked sausage rolls can be frozen for 3 months. Simply defrost and bake for the allocated time, or cook from frozen, allowing an extra 10 minutes to bake.
Cooked sausage rolls can also be frozen for 3 months. Defrost, then bake for about 10 minutes at 180 celsius
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