I’d been living in Germany about 5 years, buying sausage rolls every time I went home, before it finally occurred to me that I could make them myself! I’ve made them a few times since (Jan loves sausage rolls!) so when I was trying to think of something to bring to a party on Saturday, sausage rolls seemed like the obvious answer… easy, fairly quick and I knew nobody else would be making them! I thought other ex-pats who are craving sausage rolls might like to know how to make their own, too, so I decided to share mine. There are loads of recipes all over the Internet, of course, but mine comes with instructions on what to do if you live in Germany 😉
Vegetarians and others who are disturbed by the sight of raw meat might want to look away now…
You will need the following:
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These are the sausages you need 1 packet of pre-made puff pastry – Blätterteig in German (yes, I’m that lazy!)
- 500g sausage meat or pork sausages that you can easily remove the filling from (in Germany, you need to buy the fresh “grobe Bratwurst” type… Nürnberger and things like that won’t work!)
- About a teaspoon of dried parsley (or chopped fresh parsley if you have that stuff around. I never do, unless I buy it specially)
- About a teaspoon of dried thyme
- 2 cloves garlic, crushed
- A dash of cayenne pepper
- Freshly ground black pepper
1. If using sausages, remove their skins then place your skinned sausages or sausage meat in a large bowl. My bowl contains a lot of sausages because I tripled the above ingredients to make sure there would be enough…

2. Add the crushed garlic and mash/stir it into the sausage meat until it seems evenly spread.
3. Add parsley, thyme, a small dash of cayenne pepper (seriously… just a small dash, unless you want spicy sausage rolls, in which case feel free to add more) and as much freshly ground black pepper as you like and combine everything together well.

4. Unroll your pastry and place a thick line of sausage meat close-ish to the edge, leaving a gap slightly larger than the width of your sausage strip for rolling.

5. Fold the edge of the pastry over the sausage meat and cut the pastry just past where it comes to, then roll the pastry around the sausage meat. If the end doesn’t stick by itself, use a tiny bit of water. Repeat this step until you run out of pastry (hopefully you will also run out of sausage meat at the same time).

6. Cut the rolled-up, sausage-filled pastry into whatever sized pieces you would like. I tend to make mine fairly small because I’m paranoid about poisoning people and think if they’re small they’re more likely to cook through properly.

8. Brush the top of the sausage rolls with a little milk, if you want (I didn’t because I knew at least one person attending the party is lactose intolerant) and bake them at the temperature shown on your pastry packaging for about 15-20 minutes.

9. Leave the sausage rolls to cool for a bit before enjoying. I’m serious… they may look tempting, but those things are hot when they come out of the oven!
Omg. They look delicious. I’m going to pin this and give it a try – I’m thinking spicy Italian sausage sounds really good! And you know what, I buy the pastry dough too. It’s a bit of work to make it from scratch and I never have the patience for it. 😃
Oh yes, I bet that would be good!
I’d never heard of sausage rolls before, but the finished product does look tempting. And they remind me of Latvian “piragi”, even though they are clearly quite different. Same basic concept, though; meat and dough. 🙂
Here’s an example: http://zintaaistars.blogspot.com/2012/08/piragi.html.
Oooh, they look interesting too!
Oh god, I’m weeping with longing here! 😉
An incentive to learn to cook something new? 😉
I don’t think me and dough would have a very happy relationship… 😉
Oh yum! never heard of them, but I am drooling!
I think they’re a very British thing. Children have them at birthday parties 😀
Hey, I am trying to help some English teachers here who have had some trouble concerning an English competition here. One of the issues was the use of the word fable as the root for the word fabulous. I never knew they were connected til now. Is that news to you? I know it is not a normal use in American English. It seems as if the test was written unfairly to trick the students, and maybe have been given to some in advance to peruse. I am going to write to them after I look into it more and get answers from you and other UK English speakers in case it is just my poor American English. Thanks in advance!
Hmm, I’m not really much of an expert on etymology and it’s not something I’ve ever thought about, but now you mention it it does sound logical to me. Fabulous meaning “coming from fable” in the sense of “fabulous creatures” (i.e. mythical ones).
Thanks Bev. Yes, when you think about it it does. just not something I ever thought about before. 😉
They look fabulous, I’m definitely making these at the weekend – with bought pastry and some strange Italian sausage 😉
Oh I love Blätterteig! I think I have still some in the fridge so I will make something similar tonight, I mean, there is vegan Hack so I will give that a try!
Yes, I’m sure that would work too. I have some left over pastry so I’m thinking of trying out cheese and onion rolls 😀
They look delicious! Do you eat your sausage rolls hot or cold?
Omg they look amazing. I wish I had the time to do more cooking.
Yum! Those look good and easy too!
I find the most strange thing reading comments and people never, having heard of sausage rolls!!
OMG – I was literally yesterday saying I wanted a sausage roll – now I have a receipe – THANK YOU xx
sausage rolls are the business! http://cookingwithmrfitz.com/?s=sausage+rolls&x=0&y=0
Indeed they are!
I used to buy them from a friend that was raising money to put her daughter through dance academy. Its been years now and I’m really craving them! Thanks for the recipe. Its what’s for dinner tonight!
I hope you enjoyed them!