"I
know how to make sausage rolls"
I hear you say... "sausage mince in pastry - easy".....
(To be honest this is adapted from my Aunt's recipe, which was her desperate attempt to get her kids to eat some form of vegetable matter!)
Ingredients: Pastry
sheets (Puff pastry - I buy this, making it is too hard)
Method: 1). Get your frozen pastry out and let it defrost while you make the filling. 2). Chop and fry the onion until soft. Finely chop garlic and add this to the onion, fry until garlic and onion just start to brown. (Garlic cooks quicker than the onion so don't add them at the same time or the garlic will burn). If you want to add some capsicum feel free.. 3). In a mixing bowl, put the sausage mince, cooked garlic and onion (capsicum is desired) and grated zucchini and carrot. If you have other vegies you want to add, feel free. The zucchini and carrot are enough though, they give a moisture and just a hint of something better than your normal sausage roll - without making you think you are eating a vegetable roll. 4). Mix this really well. 5). Take your pastry sheets and cut them in half. Spread a line of mixture along the length of the pastry (in the middle), and roll the pastry over to seal it in. I can't explain that well, but I am sure you know what I mean. 6). Brush the pastry gently with a pastry brush and milk mixed with egg. Put them in the oven to cook. 7). They should go in a hot oven (pastry needs to cook in a hot oven or it just goes bleerrgh instead of crispy), cook until the pastry is browning. Probably about 10-15 mins? These can be eaten straight away, or allowed to cool and put in the fridge for the following day and reheated (If you are intending to reheat them, I'd advise only half cooking them, so that they don't burn in the oven when being reheated). I find they can be frozen (the garlic might make your fridge smell, so seal them up well), and they can be microwaved (if you like the soggy microwaved pastry texture).
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