Description
Delicious homemade Scottish sausage rolls featuring flaky puff pastry filled with a well-seasoned ground beef mixture, baked to golden perfection. Perfect for appetizers or snacks, these sausage rolls have a classic blend of spices including coriander and nutmeg, and are easy to prepare and bake.
Ingredients
Scale
Sausage Filling
- 1 lb ground beef (or pork, or mixture of beef and pork, or turkey)
- 1 cup plain breadcrumbs
- 1¼ tsp salt
- ¾ tsp black pepper, freshly ground
- ¾ tsp dried ground coriander
- ½ tsp nutmeg
- about ½ to 1 cup water
Pastry
- 18 oz puff pastry (ready-made, such as Trader Joe’s)
Topping
- 1 egg white, slightly beaten
Instructions
- Preheat Oven: Preheat your oven to 400ºF (200ºC) to get it ready for baking the sausage rolls.
- Mix Seasoning and Breadcrumbs: In a large bowl, combine salt, black pepper, coriander, nutmeg, and breadcrumbs, mixing thoroughly to distribute the spices evenly.
- Add Ground Meat and Water: Add the ground beef to the seasoning mixture along with about half a cup of water. Use your hands to mix everything together until it achieves a meatloaf-like texture. Add more water if necessary, but ensure the mixture holds together and isn’t too wet.
- Prepare Puff Pastry: Lay the puff pastry flat on a clean surface. Cut it into rectangular pieces according to the desired size of your sausage rolls, whether small cocktail-sized or larger portions.
- Shape and Fill Rolls: Form the meat mixture into logs. Place a log near one edge of each pastry piece but avoid overfilling to prevent bursting during baking.
- Seal Pastry: Lightly dampen the pastry edge opposite the meat filling with water using your finger. Fold over and seal the edges together, pressing down with a fork to crimp and secure the seam.
- Prepare for Baking: Place the sealed sausage rolls on a lined baking tray (using silpat, aluminum foil, or parchment paper). Make 3 or 4 small slits on top of each pastry to allow steam to escape. Brush the tops with the beaten egg white to encourage browning.
- Bake: Bake in the preheated oven at 400ºF (200ºC) for approximately 25 minutes or until the pastry is puffed up and golden brown.
- Serve: Remove from oven and serve warm with your preferred brown sauce, such as HP Sauce.
Notes
- To make your own breadcrumbs, simply toast bread slices until dry then blitz in a food processor or crush by hand to the desired texture.
- For appetizers, cut the sausage rolls into smaller or bite-sized pieces before baking.
- Freezing tip: Bake sausage rolls but remove them from the oven 5 to 7 minutes early, cool completely, then freeze for easy entertaining.
- Reheat frozen sausage rolls by defrosting in the refrigerator, then warming in a 375ºF (190ºC) oven for 10 to 15 minutes until hot and golden.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 small sausage roll (approx. 50g)
- Calories: 180 kcal
- Sugar: 1 g
- Sodium: 320 mg
- Fat: 10 g
- Saturated Fat: 4 g
- Unsaturated Fat: 5 g
- Trans Fat: 0 g
- Carbohydrates: 15 g
- Fiber: 1 g
- Protein: 8 g
- Cholesterol: 40 mg
