Discovered in a Christmas Pud - December 17th, Post Two

[golden-bastet.livejournal.com]

Once again, it's time for...

A Pros Cookbook!

Another delectable delicacy taken from that fabled series, The Professionals.

Next on the menu:

Sausage Rolls.

Bodie eats, drinks, lives for enjoyment. Old bones are for those who sit around at home!

Whether canon or fandom, sausage rolls loom large in the WAP Bodie mythos.

Doyle just shakes his head - and demands the car keys.

Adapted from Jamie Oliver again: (http://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/pork-recipes/sausage-rolls)

Note: type of sausage to use is up to you; just keep in mind that a fair amount of flavoring comes from the sausage's spice mix. I tried hot pork with spices, mild pork with spices, and turkey chorizo (separately), but the sky's the limit. Also, one “sausage” is assumed to be US regular-sized, roughly 0.25 pounds per link.

Ingredients:

olive oil
1 red onion, peeled and thinly sliced
1 sprig fresh sage, leaves picked
A handful of breadcrumbs
6 sausages
250 g ready-made puff pastry
1 egg
a little milk

Instructions:

1. Preheat the oven to 180ºC/350ºF/gas 4. Heat the olive oil in a saucepan and add the onions. Cook gently for about 20 minutes until soft and golden brown. Add the sage leaves, cook for a couple of minutes more and then spread out on a plate to cool.


2. With a sharp knife, slit the skins of the sausages and pop the meat out. Put it in a mixing bowl with the cooled sage and onion mix and the breadcrumbs, then scrunch well with your clean hands to mix together.


3. On a floured work surface, roll the pastry out into a big rectangle as thick as a pound coin (aka kind of thick) and cut it lengthways into two long, even rectangles. Roll the mixture into sausage shapes with your hands and lay along the centre of each rectangle.


4. Mix the egg and milk and brush the pastry with the mixture, then fold one side of the pastry over, wrapping the filling inside. Press down with your fingers or the edge of a spoon to seal the join.


5. Cut the long rolls into the sizes you want (mine were 2-3 inches, but then I'm an American) and space them out on a baking tray. Brush with the rest of the egg wash and bake in the preheated oven for 25 minutes or until puffed, golden and cooked through.

Comments

[moonlightmead.livejournal.com]

This is a genius idea!

[golden-bastet.livejournal.com]

:D

Thank you! It was also a lot of fun to eat make.

[sc-fossil.livejournal.com]

I can see Doyle making these for Bodie's Christmas breakfast since they're easy and quick with the ready made pastry. Good recipe for the lads.

[golden-bastet.livejournal.com]

Omigod - the ready-made pastry is incredible. And really well-made, too.

And Bodie doesn't mind nudging Doyle a time or two to hint about how easy it is to whip up some sausage rolls!

[krisserci5.livejournal.com]

This is so cool. My husband fell in love with sausage rolls :)

[golden-bastet.livejournal.com]

Maybe you can get him to make some? ;-)

[snailbones.livejournal.com]

LOL - Bodie's revenge *g*

[golden-bastet.livejournal.com]

For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction: one bowl of muesli comes to about twenty sausage rolls, by Bodie's reckoning!

[ali15son.livejournal.com]

Hey I'm with bodie when it comes to sausage rolls but not too many x thanks for this.

[golden-bastet.livejournal.com]

LOL, I agree - I had a few two many at once... :D

[cloudless-9193.livejournal.com]

Bodie would have loved them. :-)

[golden-bastet.livejournal.com]

Sausage roll is spelled b-o-d-i-e, after all! :-)

[sw33n3y.livejournal.com]

Oh good choice! Yes, definitely Bodie food. I can see him putting on his best eating-swiss-roll-in-company expression. :D

[golden-bastet.livejournal.com]

Bodie knows how to mind his manners!