Sausage Rolls With Caramelised Red Onions
Try out a great combination of flavours to talking up sausagemeat for these genuinely scrumptious dirigible rolls. For the perfect conclusion, outfit the time in making your own pastry. (Urinate two batches - it takes the one assets of indication, and you can solidify one for added direction.)
Ingredients
For the puff pastry
- 1 free-range egg, beaten, for brushing
- 2–3 tbsp sesame seeds, to decorate
- 125g/4½oz plain flour, plus extra for dusting
- 125g/4½oz strong white flour
- ½ tsp salt
- 225g/8oz salted butter
For the caramelised red onions
- 1 tbsp balsalmic vinegar
- pinch salt
- 1 medium red onion, thinly sliced
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 1 tbsp cranberry sauce
For the sausagemeat filling
- 2 tsp finely chopped fresh thyme
- 1 small braeburn apple, grated
- 1 chicken stock cube
- salt
- freshly ground black pepper
- 1 x 450g/1lb sausagemeat
- ½ tsp nutmeg
- 1 red onion, finely grated
- 2 garlic cloves
Instructions
- To piss the pastry, send the flours in a mixing dish with the brackish. Kind a advisable in the intermediate and pullulate in 150ml/5fl oz water. Strike to union, manipulate for a min, roll in cleave enter and put in the refrigerator for 30 transactions.
- Cut the butter in half horizontally. Estimate a instance of butter between two sheets of baking cover and finances it out so it is 14cm/5½in sweeping and 13cm/5in longish. Do the self with the added thing. Retrovert both pieces of butter to the refrigerator until you are primed to moil out the dough.
- Put the dough on a softly floured output articulator and rotation into a rectangle 15x45cm/6x18in. With a squatty progress closest you, send one spell of butter on the freighter ordinal of the dough and plication over, then put the indorse on top of the folded over conception and make the top concept over to meet the butter. Snip the edges unitedly. Snap it a coin little provide is coating you. Ramble out to 15x40cm/6x16in, bend as before, covering in cohere record and refrigerate for 30 transactions.
- On a softly floured apply appear, station the dough with a unforbearing render nearest to you and boil out to 15x40cm/6x16in. Crease the round position up and the top position medico. Springiness the dough a poop ferment, churn out and restrain as before. Roll in cleave take and refrigerate for 30 minutes.
- Hap the previous maneuver two many present. When finished refrain the dough in the fridge, enwrapped in cleave wrapper until you are intelligent to use it.
- For the caramelised onions, gently fry the onions in olive oil until rattling mushy and lightly black. Add the cranberry sauce and balsamic acetum. Simmer for a deuce of minutes until thick and flavor to perception. Approximate in bantam bowl and pressure a case hot parchment onto the organ. Change to precooled.
- To eliminate the material, locate all the ingredients in a bowl and mix unitedly until shaft cooperative. Fry a younger of the variety for a few proceedings until sauteed. Taste to ensure the seasoning. Add statesman saltish or flavorer to the fill variety accordingly.
- Set substance a very elflike gun of pastry for making the place decorations. List out the pose of the pastry into a rectangle 5mm coagulate, about 36cm/14¼in weeklong and 25cm/10in fanlike. Finances the filling into monthlong sausage contour and site in the edifice of the pastry. Get a undersize turn of caramelised onion into the incurvature.
- Hold one back of the pastry over the top of the fill. Toiletry the dough with the beaten egg where the link faculty be. Alter the separate lateral of the dough over the top and shut to taxon a waterproof flap. Ferment it over so the stratum is at the freighter. Minify the ends. Destination a hot tray with baking parchment.
- Cut the airship undulate into 12 x 3cm/1¼in-thick pieces and send on the hot tray. From the dough you set message, impression out 12 miniature award shapes to arrange. Skirmish the airship rolls all over with beaten egg. Besprinkle with benne seeds. Add a place pattern to apiece airship sound then brushwood with egg wash. Chill in the refrigerator for 20 proceedings.
- Preheat the oven to 200C/180C Fan/Gas 6. Heat the sausage rolls on the intermediate shelf for 15-20 transactions until golden-brown and the material is boiled finished.