These Party Sausage Rolls with apple are super easy to make, delicious and have some hidden goodness. They can be made ahead and frozen as well making them perfect for kids Birthday parties and lunchboxes.
Quick look at Party Sausage Rolls with apple
- ⏲️ 1h 15min total (45 mins baking)
- 🛒 Ingredients: 11 simple ingredients.
- 🍽️ Makes: 72 party sausage rolls.
- 🧑🍳 Difficulty: Simple. Chop & mix filling by hand, food processor or Thermomix.
- 🗃️ Make ahead: Assemble and freeze uncooked. Once cooked, keep 3 days regfrigerated.
One of my best friends has a younger sister.
Well actually she has two but for the purposes of this story I’m referring to the older of her two younger sisters (are you confused yet?) who is a great friend of my younger sister.
Because my sister and I were both friends with sisters, our families became great family friends and their family is known for throwing rather wonderful parties.
Jump to:
A few years back, their mum catered their dad’s 60th Birthday for more than 100 people then turned around and hosted family Christmas (they have a massive family!) a few days later.
The food is always amazing because their Mum is a great cook but there are two party dishes that my friends and I always go crazy for, - cob loaf dip and party sausage rolls.
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I know there are about a million sausage roll recipes out there.
In fact I think I have three on the blog already but these are seriously good.
They have very few ingredients which makes them easy to make and have added goodness like apple, carrot and celery.
They never seem dried out at all and are the perfect balance of flavours.
I really insist that you make these and I’m going to go out on a limb and call them the best ever party sausage rolls.
Another great party recipe with puff pastry is our spinach and feta pastry wands.
Recipe Ingredients
- Sausage mince - it’s best to get this from the butcher. Just ask and they should be able to give you some. Otherwise, get a little over a kilogram of sausages, snip the ends and squeeze out the mince. Get the best quality sausages possible.
- Apple - The original recipe specifies a green apple but I used a Gala because that’s all I had and I wasn’t dragging kids out to get one apple. They still taste fantastic so I don’t think it matters.
GRATING TIP
I just threw the carrot, apple, celery and onion in the Thermomix and chopped it all together. You could do the same with a food processor or grate/chop by hand. You can throw the rest of the ingredients in too after chopping if you don't want to mix it by hand.
To Assemble the sausage rolls
We advise laying out all the pastry and then placing all the meat before you start rolling. It takes a little while to catch on to how much meat they need and you want to be able to pinch a little from any that you put too much on to make it stretch across the 6 pieces of pastry.
Lay the sheet out, cut down the middle then down the middle of each half (long ways) lay your log of sausage mixture.
Make Ahead TIP
These can be made ahead of time and frozen, uncooked. Make sure you use freezer go-between or baking paper between layers and don’t put them too close together or they will stick. Thaw before cooking.
Enjoy!
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Recipe
Party sausage rolls
Ingredients
- 1 kg 2lb sausage mince
- 1 carrot – grated or chopped in the food processor
- 1 green apple – grated or chopped in the food processor
- 1 celery stick – diced or chopped in the food processor
- 1 onion – diced or chopped in the food processor
- ¼ cup tomato sauce or paste
- 2 tablespoon mixed herbs
- 2 teaspoon dried or fresh rosemary
- 6 sheets puff pastry
- 1 egg
- 1 tablespoon of milk
- Sesame seeds optional
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 180C fan-forced and line two oven trays with baking paper.
- Mix the sausage mince, carrot, apple, celery and onion in a large bowl with the tomato sauce/paste and the herbs.
- Lay the pastry all out on the bench and cut each piece in half down the middle to make two rectangles.
- Lay a sausage shape of mince mixture down the middle of each pastry half lengthways.
- Once all the mince has been used up, fold one side of the pastry over the filling then fold the other side over the first and turn it seam-side down.
- Carefully cut each roll into 6 pieces and place on the oven trays leaving 1-2cm between each one.
- Combine the egg and milk in a small bowl and brush on top of the rolls.
- Sprinkle with sesame seeds if desired.
- Cook for 40-45 minutes or until golden and cooked through.
Hotly Spiced says
Happy birthday to Ollie. I can't believe he's two already. I bet he's getting more lovely by the day. I hope the party went well. I love sausage rolls with apple in them xx
Claire says
Thanks Charlie! I can't believe it either. He sure is! Party was a huge success! x
Diane Jogia says
Thanks, for the recipe, Claire - the sausage rolls sound and look delicious! Could you pass on the cob loaf dip recipe at some stage? And a big happy birthday to Ollie - enjoy every day because children grow up so fast :)
Claire says
I will see if I can get it Diane! Thank you. I can't believe how quickly they're growing up :-(