Easy Chicken Sausage Rolls with Puff Pastry Recipe
With just a few ingredients and less than half an hour, you can have a batch of these flaky and delicious Chicken Sausage Rolls ready to go. Using chicken sausages and store bought pasty isn't cheating, its working smart! Both oven and air fryer instructions included for ultimate ease.
Preheat the oven to 200c fan | 220c | 390c or equivalent.
Roll 320g Puff Pastry out on a floured surface to about 0.25 inch thickness. Or unroll a sheet of ready rolled pastry.
Cut the sheet into half lengthways with a sharp knife.
Skin enough sausages to get 450g Chicken Sausage Meat.
Place the sausage meat around ⅔ of the way along each pastry strip. Make sure it reaches from end to end. You can mold the sausage meat into the right shape. Make sure to press the end of one sausage into the next if you are using skinned sausage.
Beat 1 Egg in a small bowl. Use a pastry brush to cover the large side of exposed pastry.
Start to roll the pastry around the sausage meat starting with the unwashed smaller top section. Keep the pastry nice and tight to the sausage meat.
Continue to roll until the meat is totally sealed. Wet your finger a little and gently press along with pastry seam - this will allow the pastry to meld together and reduce the likelihood of the pastry coming apart as it cooks.
Use the same sharp knife to cut the end off of each roll to neaten it up if needed. Cut each roll into half, then half again and then half again to end up with 16 rolls. Note - Use the knife to saw rather than press down or you will squash the rolls. Wipe the knife in between each cut. Don't forget not to press to hard.
Using a sharp knife make gentle diagonal slashes down the whole of each roll.
Move each roll to a lined baking tray, seam side down. Make sure the rolls each have ample room to expand.
Generously egg wash the top and sides of each sausage roll. Make sure to not wash the exposed ends or sausage meat.
Sprinkle roughly ½ tsp Poppy Seeds over the rolls.
Bake for 15 minutes until light golden brown. They may need slightly longer depending on your oven. Use your eyes and judgement. If your oven does not cook evenly, turn the tray midway through cooking.
Try to let them cool a bit before serving but I think we all know they're not going to last long!
To Air Fry (see notes section for more guidance)
Prepare the sausage rolls per the oven instructions but apply the egg wash without moving them to a tray.
Preheat your air fryer if your version requires you to.
Once hot, remove the basket and lightly grease using an oil spray (not fry light) or brush on some oil. Be careful because the basket will now be hot.
Use tongs to carefully place the rolls into the basket. Make sure to leave enough room for the rolls to puff up.
Cook for 15 minutes at 180c/350f.
Remove the rolls from the basket to a cooling rack then continue to cook the remaining rolls in as many batches as you need.
Notes
The air fryer version of this recipe is tested in a Corsori Lite (CAF-LI401S) with a 3.8 litre capacity. The square(ish) shaped basket is 21cm x 21cm and 24cm on the diagonal.
Not all models advise preheating is required. Please follow the recommended instructions for your model. Mine has a specific preheat setting which is 4 minutes at 205c.
For this recipe, I can fit 8 chicken sausage rolls in the basket at a time. The fit is quite snug. For the recipe as written, this means that I need to cook the sausage rolls in 2 batches.
As all air fryer models are a little different, you may find that you can fit more or less in at a time. Some models include stacking shelves which will increase capacity.
Required cooking times and temperatures can also vary between models and brands. If you know that your air fryer runs a little hotter than most recipes suggest, use a lower temperature. And vice versa. Equally if you find that food cooks more quickly in your machine than instructions usually state, reduce the cooking time (or check it earlier) and vice versa.