Brilliant Thai Chicken & Marinated Beef *Sausage Rolls*

Sausage rolls - I think most Australians have grown up eating pies and sausage rolls and we have had mostly two choices, Balfours and Villi's. While these two companies are good, homemade is always best. This is a highly adaptable food. You can make them plain or fancy them up. They don't have to be boring anymore or even made of sausage...  

There are a varity of different ingredients you can add to flavour your pastries. Here are two of my favourites.

Thai Chicken

Ingredients:

500g of chicken mince or 1 chicken fillet (if using food processor)

1 onion, finely chopped

2 slices of bread

1/4 cup sweet chilli sauce

1/2 cup corriander leaves

1 tbsp brown suagr

1 tbsp worstershire sauce

1 tbsp sweet sherry

1/2 tsp salt

3 sheets of puff pastry 

1 tbsp milk

Method:

1. Pre heat oven 190 degrees C. Put bread into a bowl of water to soak. Let stand for a few minutes then drain the water and squeeze bread till excess water has gone. Adding bread to the mixture will help prevent the meat from shrinking too much.
2. Place bread into a large bowl or food processor (use Quad Blade). Add mince, onion, chilli, worstershire sauce, sweet sherry, salt, sugar and coriander. Stir/pulse until well-combined.
3. Place a sheet of pastry on a flat surface. Place mince mixture down the long edge of pastry. Brush edges with cold water. Carefully roll to form a long sausage shape. Cut each into four small sausage rolls. With back of knife, flatten rolls slightly at 1cm intervals and score. Brush with milk. Repeat with remaining pastry and mince mixture.
4. Place onto greased baking trays. ( I wouldn't recommend baking paper as they stick hardcore to the paper.) Bake for 12 to 15 minutes or until golden and cooked through.

Marinated Beef

 2 pieces of marinated steak

1 onion, finely chopped

2 slices of bread

1 cup of diced pumpkin

1 cup of diced capsicum

1/2 cup diced mushrooms

1 tbsp brown sugar

1 tbsp worstershire sauce

1 tbsp sweet sherry

1/2 tsp salt

3 sheets of puff pastry 

1 tbsp milk

Use the method stated for the Thai Chicken rolls and enjoy. If you don't have a food processor, ask the butcher to mince the meat for you or get some marinate powder from the butcher and buy some beef mince and just mix it together.

See, you can add just about any type of meat and veg and you know what has gone into making your *sausage rolls*

My other favourites are pork and apple, italian sausage.