Jammy Sausage Plaits
Jammy Sausage Plaits is a dish you can serve hot or cold, with pork and tomato sausages, onion jam and flaky pastry.
Serves: Makes 6 plaits
Cooking time: 15-20 minutes
Oven temperature: Gas Mark 6, 200ºC, 400ºF
Ingredients
- 6 Chunky Pork and tomato sausages, skins removed
- 500g all-butter puff pastry
- Onion jam or similar onion or fruit chutney
- 1 egg mixed with a little milk
Procedure
- Preheat oven to Gas Mark 6, 200ºC, 400ºF.
- Cut pastry in half lengthways.
- Roll out to about 30cm x10cm.
- With the longest length of pastry closest to you, place 3 separate teaspoons full of jam or chutney straight onto the pastry, spacing out evenly, and allowing space for the ‘plaits’.
- Top the jam with a skinless sausage.
- Cut between the sausages creating 3 'plaits'.
- Now cut parallel, diagonal slits either side of the sausage in the pastry about 1cm apart.
- Lightly brush with water and then 'plait'/fold the strips alternately over one another.
- Repeat with remaining pastry.
- Place on a baking sheet lined with baking paper.
- Bake in a preheated oven for about 15-20 minutes until pastry is risen and golden.
- Serve hot or cold in a picnic or as a snack with heaps of seasonal salad.