New Make/Bake 33 - Sausage Roll Ups

In an effort to cut down on my pointless spending at lunch times I've decided to try and make more lunches during the week. Some days I work from home which means I have full access to a kitchen when making lunch. However if I'm in the office then I only have access to a kettle, fridge and microwave and if I'm out and about at meetings then I just have my car which isn't much help beyond driving me to a supermarket for a sandwich! This means that I am in need of a few quick, easy and tasty lunches which need little to no preparation.

A few weeks ago whilst reading through one of my BBC Good Food Magazines I spotted a recipe for Sausage Roll-ups which I though looked rather tasty. Sausage rolls are one of my favourite lunch time snacks, I know they aren't very healthy but there is something about a lovely meaty sausage encased in hot, flaky pastry that I just can't resist!

Sausage Roll-Ups

Ingredients

• 6 chipolata sausages
• 1 pack of croissant dough- found in the chiller section (usually near the butter)
• 2 tbsp Caramelised Onion Chutney
• 1 tbsp tomato purée
•  1/2tbsp wholegrain mustard
• 1 egg , beaten
•  Sprinkle of sesame seeds 

Method

1. Heat oven to 200C/180C fan/gas 6. Sit the chipolata's in a roasting tin and cook for 15 mins until lightly golden brown and then allow to cool until they are handleable. 
2. Open the croissant packs and unroll the dough and separate into triangles. Mix the onion chutney, tomato purée and mustard, and spread a few spoonfuls over each  triangle. Line a baking sheet with parchment or grease-proof paper. To make the Roll-Ups, lay a sausage along the wide end of the dough and roll it up around the sausage. Repeat until the sausages are all encased with the croissant dough. Arrange them on the baking tray, brush lightly with beaten egg and scatter with sesame seeds. Bake for 10-15 mins until golden.  

 Recipe from BBC Good Food
 

I had two for my lunch straight from the oven - wow they were scrummy. The pastry was great and the chutney made them really sweet but with a slight mustard bite. It took lots of strength to only have two. When M came home he had to test them - to make sure they weren't poisonous or so he said! Apparently  one wasn't sufficient enough for him to fully test them so he of course had to have a second. He then proclaimed that he would take the last two left for his lunch the next day - so much for saving me time and money making my lunch!!