Sausage rolls

[KerrynN]

Name of Recipe: Sausage Rolls
Ingredients:
1 medium onion, peeled and quartered
1 clove of garlic
1 carrot
1 small zucchini
500g sausage mince
500g minced beef
1 egg
1 tbsp cumin
1 tsp curry powder
1 tsp dried oregano
1 tbsp tomato sauce
fresh breadcrumbs
1 portion of puff pastry from EDC (or 3 sheets of shop bought puff pastry)
Egg wash

Preparation:
Add onion, garlic, carrot, zucchini to TMX bowl and chop speed 6, 4 seconds.
Add remaining ingredients (excluding breadcrumbs) and mix on speed 4 until combined. You may need to assist with the spatula. If mixture is too wet, add some breadcrumbs.
Roll out pastry and put together the sausage rolls, using egg wash to seal pastry edges and to brush on top before baking in moderate oven for 20 minutes or until pastry is golden and crispy.
Photos:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/59055494@N05/5415461998/ (in the middle)
Tips/Hints:
They freeze well. I cook them all the way through if I know that the kids will take them cold for lunch, or a bit less if I am making them particularly to finish off/reheat later.

Tips/hints from members

Cookie1 - Sausage rolls are a great place to hide vegies. I even put broccoli and pumpkin in our some times.

Judydg - If you are not keen on shop bought sausage meat - buy good quality sausages and take the skins off - apparently that's what Jamie Oliver does! I think the meat content would be higher than basic sausage meat.

hopefulcook - I used 500gm pork mince (because I like pork more than beef) and added 600g cooked+mashed potatoes.
This fills it out and makes the mixture nice and smooth.  I also added 200g onion, 2 cloves garlic, 1 tsp ground cumin, 1 tsp curry powder (blitzed and sauteed in TM) - needed 4 sheets of puff pastry to fill.
50-50 response from the kids (maybe my TMX-ground cumin a bit strong for young palates?)  Also the grown-ups loved them too.
Next time I would decrease potatoes slightly and add carrots/pumpkin or some other veggies.

[faffa_70]

I like the zucchini hidden in these 

I can' see your picture Kerryn unless I create and account and sign into flikr 

[KerrynN]

Sorry, have changed the settings on the photo now. It had kids in it and I hadn't cropped them out yet. I'm a bit precious about photos of the kids on the web.

[cookie1]

Sausage rolls are a great place to hide vegies. I even put broccoli and pumpkin in our some times.

[cottchick]

Yummo, thanks Kerryn. I have been looking for this recipe for TMX.\

serena

[faffa_70]

Sorry, have changed the settings on the photo now. It had kids in it and I hadn't cropped them out yet. I'm a bit precious about photos of the kids on the web.

Totally understand!! I am the same way 

[ahoney]

Do you have to use sausage roll mince? or could i use all minced beef? I Have very nice free range minced beef, what exactly is sausage roll mince made from?

[KerrynN]

I'm sure you can use all mince rather than half half. I guess i have always done it that way without thinking too much about what was in sausage mince. I did find that I was less comfortable with this last time though - now that I am so much more aware of such things. THen again, there have to be a few exceptions.

[CarolineW]

Has anyone tried these as all mince yet - and if so, did they work??

I made some minced beef sausage rolls just making it up out of my head, and they weren't a complete success, so I'm wondering whether to give these a whirl, or whether to just give up 

Pork's a no-no in our house, so the sausage meat isn't an option for me.

[judydawn]

Go on, be a devil and give it a go in the name of research Caroline. I can't see why it wouldn't work. 

[achookwoman]

I think sausage mince is made from meat trimmings, (lamb and beef),a fair bit of fat, flour , spices(depending on what it is to be called) and water.  Pretty bad .  Some health departments state that a certain amount of meat must be part of the mix.  I resist buying sausage meat from the butcher or supermarket, however recently I bought some to make sausage rolls.  I added lots of vegetables to the mince.  I TMX onion, carrots, celery and mushrooms and them cooked them in the TMX for 5 mins. I then put the sausage meat in the TMX and zapped the lot.  I bought the best puff pastry and this made 30 rolls .  The family said they were the best they had had.  If you make your own mince, you need to add bread crumbs to stop the meat from becoming too dense.    What I am talking about is an English type of sausage, not a continental type ,  which can be made with just meat.  MY Dad was a butcher.

[CreamPuff63]

you need to add bread crumbs to stop the meat from becoming too dense.   

think it perhaps also helps to absorb the fat and stop it from oozing out all over the place. I like my sossie rolls about 3cm long and about 2cm wide so you can dip easily into the sauce and pop them into your mouth in one go, and then reach for another one...

[cookie1]

LOL

[dede]

Thats the way to think CP lol. 

[achookwoman]

CP63,  that is exactly the way to go.