Delicious sausage rolls

To make really good and tasty sausages 

just follow these simple things:

Instead of using plain sausage meat buy the 'Garlic & Basil',  'Italian sausage', 'Pork & Apple' etc. varieties. Aldi's Garlic ones are really good and I have often used Tesco's own speciality brand also. 

Roll out your puff pastry (I use fresh - not frozen) but I do not spend 4 hours making my own - I buy it from the fridge in Lidl, Aldi, Dunnes or Tescos - they are all perfectly good. - I find Aldi & Lidl are of much cheaper on price and often superior in quality)

Open out Puff pastry, slit sausage skins and peel them off. Place three sausages (jumbos) in a row down the outside of the pastry sheet - making sure they meet fully,  now place another three on the other half of the pastry at the outer edge. 

Cut down the middle of the pastry and brush both sides with  beaten egg. Roll them up, seal them and cut to desired length. Prick each sausage roll with a fork, brush with beaten egg and sprinkle poppy seeds lightly on top. 

Place the sausage rolls on a sheet of baking paper or a greased and floured tin and put in a hot oven at 220 degrees (200 fan oven). Cook for 12- 14 minutes until golden brown but not too dark.
 

Serve hot with some tomato relish and enjoy.

When the sausage rolls are cold you can bag them and freeze them and cook from frozen whenever you fancy in a pre-heated oven at 200 degrees (180) for 15 minutes. I find it so handy to have bags of them in the freezer.