A giant Sausage Roll, using only three ingredients, will feed the whole family. Serve this straight from the oven for a tasty supper or lunch, or have it cold for a picnic.
Giant Sausage Roll
Giant Sausage Roll is one of my son's favourite meals. I think my mother-in-law made it once and then every time we visited because he was so keen on it. This is a very easy recipe to make. In fact, I'm almost embarrassed to call this a recipe. It's more of a 'putting together and cooking' thing.
Key ingredients in Giant Sausage Roll
Three ingredients plus an optional extra to make it look good:
Puff Pastry
You could make your own, but life's too short, especially for a sausage roll. You can either buy puff pastry in a block or ready-rolled. You also have a choice of all-butter pastry, or not. All-butter, ready-rolled is the best-tasting, easiest option. (I finally figured out that it's the rolling that I hate about pastry (you may have noticed that I never do any), so it's a no-brainer.)
Sausagemeat
Do you know what's in it? It pays to be picky about sausagemeat - and sausages - as it can be a repository for all sorts of bits of animals we wouldn't really want to eat if we knew about it.
Buying from the butcher or the farm can be the best bet. You can buy good meat online (as I do), e.g. from Field & Flower. Otherwise, the best quality the supermarket has to offer isn't a bad option but do check the ingredients.
You can always use sausages and take the skins off. A quick blitz turns them back into sausagemeat
Chutney
- The vital third ingredient in a Giant Sausage Roll is chutney. You could use Branston or whatever your favourite is, but tomato chutney is perfect with sausage, so why not give that a try?
Egg Wash
- This is optional, but your pastry will be golden and glowing if you brush it with egg before cooking. On the other hand, it's a whole egg - but you could use the rest in scrambled egg.
You can eat the sausage roll hot or cold in the summer, or maybe both as there might be some left over. Leftovers don't heat up well because the pastry can get a bit soft in the microwave, or the sausage will be too dry in the oven. But sometimes, even soft pastry is better than having to cook another meal!
If you like this...
...Why don't you try:
Salmon and Tomato Tart
Sausage and Apple Casserole
Meatloaf
HELPFUL TOOLS
- Magic Liner or a silicone baking mat – both reduce the washing up as they go into the dishwasher. You don't have to grease them either as they're totally non-stick
- Oven thermometer – if you think your oven thermostat might not be telling you the truth (mine isn’t), this inexpensive thermometer will set you right. You do need one with large numbers so that you can read it from inside the oven.
Giant Sausage Roll
Ingredients
- 1 pack ready-rolled puff pastry
- 450 g sausage meat
- 4 tablespoons tomato chutney (60ml )
- Egg to glaze the pastry
Equipment
Instructions
PREPARATION:
- Set the oven to 220°C/ 200°C fan/ gas mark 7/ 425°F
- Grease the baking tray if you aren’t using a liner
- Beat the egg for the egg wash, if using
For the Giant Sausage Roll:
- Unroll the pastry onto the baking sheet.Ignore what it says on the packet and use it straight from the fridge
- Place the slab of sausage meat on the pastry so that you can make it into a parcel.You may need to adjust the shape of the meat
- Spread the chutney on top of the sausagemeat
- Pull the sides of the pastry up to meet in the middle lengthwise and press together.You probably need to wet your fingers to make it stick
- Fold in the corners of the pastry and fold up the edges
- If you have a lot of pastry left over, cut some off for decoration. Otherwise, you can cut any thick pieces off when it’s cooked
- Brush the beaten egg over the pastry. This will give the cooked pastry that golden finish
- Cook for 30-35 minutes until golden brown
- Rest for 10 minutes before slicing
- Serve hot or cold.
Notes
EverydayCooks tip:
- If you can only get sausages, not sausagemeat, remove the skins by scoring with a knife and unpeeling
- Blitz in a food processor or mix up with a fork to get a smooth mixture
Tina says
What's 2 table spoons?
Susie Collings says
Hi Tina. It's an error! Updated now - thanks.
A very angry farmer says
Quite dissapponted to see your comments RE: contents of sausage meat. Infact you should never buy sausage meat from the supermarket as it is mostly bread and fillers! Sausage meat is only good if it is mainly shoulder or belly with at least 20% fat content. No butcher in the UK would dream of using anything else in their sausagemeat!!! Your comment is disrespectful to our hard working butchers and farmers and sows the sort of fasle information we are trying to stamp out!
Susie Collings says
Not quite sure what the issue is. As I say, I prefer to buy from the butcher or farm (and recommend it), but not everyone has the option. I do also point out that you should look at the ingredients and buy sausages instead if need-be, as sausagemeat- and sausages - can contain all sorts of things.
I'm not a fan of supermarket meat but I am realistic about people's buying preferences. If they do buy from a supermarket my aim is to encourage everyone to know what they're buying by reading the contents label.