A classic party food with a twist: what better way to entertain your guests as we enter the festive season and start enjoying those long cosy days?
Invite friends and family round and raise a glass to all that gives us cheer. Quick, easy and deliciously irresistible. These rolls with be the talk of your get together, adding variation and flavour to your table.
Ingredients: Makes 12
• 375g ready rolled puff pastry
• Flour, dusting
• 400g pork sausage meat, skins removed.
• 2 Tbsp ART’s Allotment Chutney, Sandfire Chutney or Indian Summer Chutney
• 1 egg, beaten.
• Salt
• Pepper
• 2 Tbsp sesame seeds and/or poppy seeds (optional)
Method:
Preheat your oven to 200°C. Roll the pastry out into a 35cm x 30cm rectangle on a floured surface. Trim the edge of the pastry by only a couple of mm to even it off. Cut the rectangle in half lengthways to form two long strips.
Spread a thin layer of your chosen ART’s chutney onto each pastry strip, leave a border round the edge.
Place the sausage meat into a large clean bowl add 3 tbsp of cold water, season with salt and pepper and combine the meat into a ball. Divide the meat in two and roll each half into a cylindrical sausage to fit the pastry strip.
Put each cylinder in the centre of the pastry strip leaving a border on each side, brush the border and the top of the sausage meat with beaten egg.
Fold the nearest side of the pastry over, roll to encase the meat and press the edge down with a fork to seal.
Cut each sausage strip into 5 cm long sausage rolls, arrange on a baking tray and chill for 20 minutes.
Brush the rolls with the rest of the beaten egg and sprinkle with sesame seeds.
Bake for 30-35 minutes until the pastry is golden.
Transfer to a wire rack to cool for 10 minutes.
Note: You can repeat this process depending on the number of people you are serving and vary the chutney choice for different palates. The rolls can be made uncooked and kept frozen for up to a month.
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