Prep time:

Cooking time: 30 minutes

Total time:

Serves: 8

400g sausage meat

1 cooking apple (approx 130g), finely chopped or roughly grated

½ red onion, finely diced

½tsp mixed herbs

1 pack ready rolled puff pastry

1 egg, beaten

Apples go so well with pork and with pastry. Choose a good cooking variety and some high quality sausage meat for these deliciously simple-to-make sausage rolls – perfect to serve at Halloween or Bonfire Night.

  1. Mix the filling ingredients – except the egg – together thoroughly in a large mixing bowl.
  2. Unroll the pastry within its greaseproof wrapper and place on a board. Cut into 2 equal sections lengthwise – so that you have 2 long narrow strips.
  3. Shape the sausage meat mixture into 2 long sausages and place onto the pastry lengths.
  4. Brush down one side of each with beaten egg (this will act like glue and seal the roll).
  5. Roll up the pastry to make a tube with the sausage meat in the centre – making sure that the join is on the underside.
  6. Cut each roll into 4 equal sections and score 3 cuts along each.
  7. Brush with beaten egg and place on a baking tray in a pre-heated oven (180°C). Bake for approximately 25-30 minutes – until the pastry is golden brown.
  8. Serve hot or cold.

Jo Arnell runs gardening courses from her beautiful home in Woodchurch, Kent, where we photographed these recipes (in her splendid dedicated workshop space). To find out more, see hornbrookmanor.co.uk

  • words:
  • pictures: David Merewether

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