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Sausage rolls my way

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This is my Vegan sausage roll recipe. We like them so much that I don't bother making meat ones any more and I'm a meat eater.

I've tried to quantify some of the ingredients but nothing is that critical and I usually make them by judging amounts.

The bulk of the filling
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You don't need a particular brand of sage and onion stuffing mix. I just had one about to run out.
The soya mince is a dried product that can be a little hard to find. This came from Morrisons in the world food isle.

So into the bowl goes a packet of stuffing mix - if it is already in portion packs. If not then I measured about 150g from my 2 mixes. Then the soya mince. Now I've never weighed that before. I just guess an equal volume to the stuffing mix. Think it will be about 100g.
Whilst dealing with dry ingredients I add 2 heaped teaspoons of my sausage seasoning mix.
I don't try and make a couple of teaspoons worth of seasoning as the amounts are fiddly so I make a batch and keep the rest for next time.

Seasoning mix..
10g salt. 7g ground white pepper. 5g ground black pepper. 2g ground nutmeg. 1g ground Mace. 2g Ground ginger. 3g mixed herbs (herbs de provence or whatever).
Remember that is for a stock batch. Don't put that amount in!

Now that seasoning is for meat free use. i use all the same spices but with 60g of salt instead of 10g for pork sausages. salt seems much more obvious in vegetarian foods.

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Now some blitzed up nuts. i use Mixed nuts but could be just walnuts or whatever. They are for texture. Nothing larger than 1/4 nut size but not turned into a powder either. How much? a handful which turns out to be 110g

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Mix all the dry ingredients to distribute the spice.

Now a good glug of soy sauce which turns out to be 40g. I had Tamari soy from a recipe I did once but normal would be fine.

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Now a tin of beans get blitzed and added. juice and all. I was going to use black beans as that was all we had but Mrs came back from shopping with mixed beans so I used those instead. Again well chopped but not fully blended down.

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Now put the kettle on.

I've never measured how much boiling water I add but you want to add enough to make a paste that is not too hard to stir. Hard to describe. turned out I put 400g of boiling water in.

Having mixed it in leave it to soak in for 15 minutes. You can taste it at any time as there is nothing dodgy that must be cooked before you can eat it. see if the spice (mostly pepper) level is right for you.

Now it should be quite a stiff mix but should spoon out easy enough. I use a large plastic bag now and scatter some mix across it. Fold the bag over and stroke along the mixture to form a long sausage.

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The supermarket flaky pastry block (500g) rolls out to about 500mm square. Had enough mix left over to have used another half block but only had the one. Bad planning.

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Paint along one side of the filling with water then fold the pastry over to enclose. I then crimp along the seal with a fork before cutting the long sausage roll loose.

Then cut the tops and portion as you like.

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I got 27 nice equal ones that went in the freezer and a few odd sized offcuts that went in the oven.

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Now if anyone knows a vegan pastry glaze that works I'd be interested. For us meat eaters I'd use a egg glaze but nothing vegan seems to make them shiny so vegan ones get baked with no glaze.

Oh about 20 mins or 25 if frozen at 200C.

They are pretty easy so do have a go sometime.
 
Looks good mate, I'll give them a bash.

I'm a meat eater too, but like many on here I am looking to maybe cut out some of my meat consumption so this will be a good start as I do love a 'sausage' roll.
 
They do look good Robert.

I would have no objection to eating them.

With a daughter on a very low carb diet (10-15g perday) going vegeterian or vegan is not really an option.
 
They look very nice. Like some others I’m not at all adverse to trying vegetarian options even though I eat meat. The Fry’s meat free sausage rolls sold in Sainsbury’s are quite nice. I quite liked the Greggs vegan sausage rolls but they had a bit too much sage in them for my liking.
 
I've had a Greggs Vegan sausage roll and was not impressed. there was a bready mush inside with no real bite.

Hope someone has a go at my version and can report back sometime.
 
All supermarket ready made pastry is vegan...unless you go for the deluxe made with butter stuff.
 
Robert":2zpw8ydv said:
All supermarket ready made pastry is vegan...unless you go for the deluxe made with butter stuff.

Ah sorry, I didn't mean vegan, I meant GF. Do you know of any GF ready made pastries?
 
I've never looked for GF pastry but google says such a thing exists and should be in the supermarkets. Made by 'just-roll' rather than own brand.
 
We make a very low carb and gluten free pastry like substitute using almond flour, or ground almonds. When she gets home I can ask the pastry chef for the recipe if you want.
 
TrimTheKing":2uvs3kis said:
I'm a meat eater too, but like many on here I am looking to maybe cut out some of my meat consumption

Same here, but we've started to eat more venison rather than cow (which we hardly touch) but most of the stuff we now munch is chicken with fish twice a week for good measure. When we do have chicken, one decent sized chunk will do nicely for the two of us - Rob
 
I too would like some venison but round 'ere it's two deer

Sorry/not sorry, a groan at Christmas is part of the ritual.

Happy Christmas to all and the sausage rolls will definitely be adopted in this house, they sound delis! :text-goodpost:
 
Talking of sausage rolls....

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Andyp":1yq0tv14 said:
We make a very low carb and gluten free pastry like substitute using almond flour, or ground almonds. When she gets home I can ask the pastry chef for the recipe if you want.

Yes please mate.
 
She uses the one at the bottom of this page

https://www.gnom-gnom.com/cream-cheese- ... ainer-3744

with a few changes,

We only use lupin flour it has fewer carbs than all the others. We also use guar gum rather than xanthum gum. Please read up on the use of guar gum it is powerful stuff and only a very little is required.
We dont add any salt or zest either and any old butter will do.

Dont expect like for like with shop bought pastry and be prepared to experiment but it is passable.
 
Andyp":1hfgyjvk said:
..... We also use guar gum rather than xanthum gum. Please read up on the use of guar gum it is powerful stuff and only a very little is required......

Slightly off-topic but for anyone who is coeliac, please note that contrary to the rubbish that Coeliac UK put out, for some coeliacs Guar gum and xanthan gum can be just as bad as wheat.
 
Interesting Roger,
I should have added that we are coming at this from a very low carb diet (10-15g per day) rather than gluten free.
A diet, BTW, that is monitored closely by a nutritionalist.
 
RogerS":111cpnd4 said:
Andyp":111cpnd4 said:
..... We also use guar gum rather than xanthum gum. Please read up on the use of guar gum it is powerful stuff and only a very little is required......

Slightly off-topic but for anyone who is coeliac, please note that contrary to the rubbish that Coeliac UK put out, for some coeliacs Guar gum and xanthan gum can be just as bad as wheat.

Ah bugger! Good to know thanks, the person I’m thinking of this for us also coeliac!
 
Slightly off-topic but for anyone who is coeliac, please note that contrary to the rubbish that Coeliac UK put out, for some coeliacs Guar gum and xanthan gum can be just as bad as wheat.

Not only for coeliac per se, but also a growing number of folk who are being termed "gluten intolerant" when they do not show full symptoms, or testing does not register a full 'positive'.

As a second aside, this group seems to have tiredness and lethargy as a regular symptom, as opposed to the severe abdominal pain coeliacs proper(?) can experience. Said tiredness CAN be accompanied by some abdominal distention. I suspect we are looking at a sliding scale - of coeliacism - or even an associated syndrome; medics or more informed persons please feel free to correct or enhance my comments.

Sam.
 
We’ve just tried the Walls Jumbo Vegan Rolls and they are very nice, we’ll be buying them again.
 
No really, you have to try these. I’m not a vegan but they’re very nice. :D
 
I'm up for a challenge so I'll buy one if I see one. My recipe above beats Greggs vegan sausage roll easily and I'm betting it will beat Walls too but I'll give it a fair try sometime.

Shame that no one as far as I know has tried my recipe. their loss :)
 
Robert":1zg5kp3o said:
I'm up for a challenge so I'll buy one if I see one. My recipe above beats Greggs vegan sausage roll easily and I'm betting it will beat Walls too but I'll give it a fair try sometime.

Shame that no one as far as I know has tried my recipe. their loss :)

I bought all the stuff in, just haven’t done it yet. This has nudged me.
 
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