Hey guys, hope you're well. So, I want to show you how to make the most beautiful
sausage rolls. Look at these absolutely incredible, amazing, color. We've got the
big sausage roll here that you can put on a board and slice up and serve. You
can do any way you like. But guys, homemade sausage rolls are beautiful.
So easy. now this is a great cheat recipe. So, while I'm here in my Test Kitchen I want
to show you how to do it. It's full of love but it's all about the shopping.
First up, let's start with the story around puff pastry. So, this is pre-bought
puff pastry. Go to the supermarket and buy all butter puff pastry that's the key. That
doesn't mean we don't care. It just means that we might be a little short of time, okay.
So, let's continue the cheats on to the meat. Normally, you get lovely minced
shoulder of pork, you know lovely free-range pig and you
mix it with herbs and seasoning and stuff like that or you could call it
mincemeat, no problem at all. But, if you want to do
it quick and easy then go and get a Cumberland sausage like this. A proper
good-quality Cumberland sausage will be made of belly, shoulder it will be made
with love, care. in an artisanal way. So, it's a really beautiful premium product.
So, we'll squeeze the meat out of the sausage like this and just load it along
the center of this puff pastry here. So, take the sausage right to the edge
because that will shrink a little bit. Let me just wash my hands. So, a
fantastic cheat with a pastry and the sausage. But now, we have the ability to
embellish it in flavor, we can add to it, ramp it up, make it even more exciting.
So, herb wise you could go rosemary, thyme, I want to go sage. So, just tear the sage
in and around the beautiful pork. What's really nice is as the fat cooks out the
sausage meat. It starts to fry the sage and the perfume and the flavor is so
good. So, you can be quite generous and then nutmeg look at that one of the
most brilliant spices. Beautiful and on a fine grater just be quite generous and
then english mustard. So I know that english mustard can blow your head off
sometimes but trust me when this cooks with the meat it just, kind of, turns into
something different, something truly delicious. What's
really nice is you can have fun with it. Make up your own combos. Make it your
very own sausage rolls not mine but yours. At this stage in the game, just
take a little egg wash and just brush the puff pastry that hasn't been filled
with flavor. Just on one side, that's all you need to do and then go to the two
corners of the pastry and go straight over like that. Of course, when the
fat comes out of the pork at the sides it starts to go back around here and
flavor the pastry, beautiful. Get a little fork and just do a simple press down
like that. So, it kind of guarantees the seal but it looks pretty splendid too.
Then, give it a nice little brush so it shines really really nice. Of course,
you can cut really thin ones, normal sized ones, chunky ones, but I just love
cooking the whole one. Then, the last thing I like to do is take a pinch of
sesame seeds. Look at that, so there you go guys. A beautiful sausage roll.
Definitely a cheap, definitely a short cut, but still full of love. Cook it for
about 25-30 minutes until golden and crispy and gorgeous and the temperature
is 180 degrees Celsius which is 350 Fahrenheit. I'm gonna ever clean down and
then I'll show you what it looks like. Let's have a look. There you go.
Really simple, really beautiful and you can just serve that straight on a
beautiful board and of course people can just cut the portion the way they want it.
So, let's have a little go. Normally, I would let this cool down a little bit
but for the sake of having to taste things for technical reasons we're gonna
do it now. Right, let's have a go.
Really nice, loads of crispy pastry, so wafer-thin and the meats juicy.
Looks amazing.
Absolutely comfort food at its best. I'm getting that hit of nutmeg,
the sage is sublime. Absolutely delicious, quick and easy, loads of fun to do, but
really juicy inside. I think, look, go out, have a go, make your own sausage
rolls at home, you know, be creative make it your own and enjoy.
Take care