Quick and Easy Sausage Rolls

INGREDIENTS

• 1 (11.3 oz) pack ready-rolled puff pastry
• 5 thick, good quality, pork sausages (or approx 8 thin sausages, or 8.75 oz sausage meat rolled into sausage shapes)
• 1 egg lightly beaten, this will be your egg wash

TIPS

• You can kick this up a notch by sprinkling some salt along the top before baking.
• Pair this with a nice honey mustard (or any mustard).

DIRECTIONS

1. Preheat the oven to 400F (fan). Line a baking tray with parchment or a silicone mat.
2. Slice the pastry in half lengthways so you have two long lengths.
3. Remove the skins from the sausages and unroll the pasty.
4. Line up half of the sausages along the middle of one of the lengths of pastry. You may need to stretch the sausages slightly to get right to the ends. Repeat with the other length of pastry.
5. Brush the top length of each of the two pastry pieces with egg wash and roll up the sausages rolls from the bottom. The egg should help the pastry to seal.
6. Turn the sausage rolls over and press the seams shut using a fork.
7. Brush the tops with egg wash and cut each length of sausage roll into 10-12 mini sausage rolls.
8. Place the sausage rolls on the baking tray and prick the top of each sausage roll with with the tip of a sharp knife.
9. Bake in the oven for 18-20 minutes – until the pastry is golden brown.
10. Take out of the oven and leave to cool slightly. Serve warm or cold.