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Vegetarian Sausage Rolls

Vegetarian Sausage Rolls

 I am really happy with these sausage rolls and they are genuinely very easy to make. The instructions below are for cocktail sausage rolls but you can make any size you like.

Course Appetizer, canape, Side Dish, Snack
Cuisine british
Keyword sausage rolls
Prep Time 25 minutes
Cook Time 20 minutes
Servings 16
Author Jane Devonshire

Ingredients

  • 1 onion finely chopped
  • 4-5 sage leaves finely chopped
  • a splash sunflower oil
  • 1 jar tempeh drained weight 240g
  • 1 tsp sea salt
  • 1 grind black pepper
  • 1 large free-range egg
  • 30 g gluten-free breadcrumbs I use Mrs Crimble’s
  • 1 pack gluten-free ready-made puff pastry
  • 1 large free-range egg beaten, to egg wash

Instructions

  1. Preheat the oven to 220°C/200°C Fan/Gas Mark 7. Gently fry off the onion and sage in the oil for about 5 minutes, until softened and cooked through.

  2. Pulse-blend the drained tempeh until it has the texture of traditional sausage meat. Add the cooked onion and sage and the salt, black pepper, egg and breadcrumbs to the tempeh and stir through thoroughly. 

  3. Roll out your pastry and cut it into two strips, about 26–28cm long and 9–10cm wide. On a lightly floured board, gently roll out the filling mixture to about the size of a normal sausage and place it on the pastry, slightly off centre. Repeat, joining the rolls of filling together into one long roll, until you have nearly reached the end of each pastry strip. Egg wash along one long edge of the pastry and fold over gently, pressing to make a tight seal.

  4. Using a sharp knife, cut through each roll every 3–4cm, to make cocktail sausage rolls. Make two slashes in the top of each sausage roll through the pastry to the sausage meat. Egg wash and place in the oven for about 20 minutes, until golden and risen.

  5. Tip: You can make these really herby or spicy depending on what you like best. Personally, I love brushing the inside of the pastry with gluten-free yeast extract and mixing some vegetarian Italian hard cheese into the sausage mixture for something quite different.