Full Time Meals: Jumbo Sausage Roll
Preparation time: 30 minutes
Cooking time: 45 minutes
Ingredients
8 reduced-fat pork sausages
1 onion
4 button mushrooms (optional)
1 medium potato
1 tbsp of mustard
1 tbsp tomato ketchup
1 packet of ready rolled light puff pastry
A splash of milk
Salt and pepper
Curry powder (optional)
Brown sauce, to serve (optional)
(Serves 6)
Method
- Put the oven on at 200C. Start by slicing one end off each sausage. Next, squeeze out the meat from within the sausage skin into a bowl.
- Peel the onion, keeping it whole, and grate it. Then roughly grate the mushrooms and the potato. Add this all to a large bowl, along with the sausage meat, mustard, ketchup and a bit of salt and pepper. Give it a good mix.
- Unroll the puff pastry onto a clean flat surface, leaving the greaseproof paper underneath, so that the short side is closest to you. Spoon the sausage meat onto the pastry, leaving a gap at the bottom, and shape it into a long sausage shape that reaches the entire width of the pastry.
- Starting from the bottom, pull the pastry up and over the sausage meat to join the pastry on the other side. Using a pastry brush or your fingers, brush the join with a little milk and push it down with your finger to seal. Brush the remaining pastry with a little more milk and continue to roll the sausage over until all the pastry is wrapped around. Finally, brush the edge of the pastry with milk to seal.
- Trim the greaseproof paper with a knife and place the sausage roll on a baking tray. Brush the top of the sausage roll with a bit more milk and gently cut a row of small lines along the length of the pastry, sprinkling a little curry powder on top.
- Bake in the hot oven for 40-45 minutes, until golden brown and the sausage meat is cooked through. Take the sausage roll out of the oven and let it stand for a few minutes before slicing up. Serve with a dollop of brown sauce and tuck in!