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When is a sausage roll, not a sausage roll? When its Nutty's huge Sausage Roll & Caramalised Onion log! This cook's nuts!...say's the editor!

Christmas is nearly upon us! So, what better than making your own Sausage Roll & Caramalised Onion log. Yes! I do mean a LOG, one big, humongous, sausage roll! Firstly, check the size of your biggest baking tray, one that can accomodate the monster....I'm making this easy so you have plenty of time to make a home made Tomato Chutney too! :-P Ready rolled pastry, two packs of sausages and caramalised onions, simple!

Click the Method tab below to see a step-by-step guide on how to make this Sausage roll & caramalised onion log, along with some pictures as a guide.

cooked sausage roll

ingredients

Here's what you need :¬)

feeds a small army!

For the caramalised onions

  • 1 Tbsp olive oil
  • 15g unsalted butter
  • 2 red onions, finely chopped
  • 2 garlic cloves, finely chopped
  • 2 Tbsp balsamic vinegar

For the sausage roll

  • 2 packs of your favorite sausages*
  • 1 pack of pre-rolled puff pastry

*I tend to go for cumberland they have the perfect mix of seasoning

method

I've made this as simple as possible, shop bought, all butter, ready rolled flakey puff pastry! Two packs of sausages! Yep! Yep! Yep!

The first thing you need to do is get those onions on to caramalise. While those are cooking, you can get everything else ready.

So, gather the ingredients for the caramalised onions and let's begin!

Method for the onions

  1. heat the oil & melt the butter over a low heat in a pan
  2. add onions & cook until soft, translucent & slightly caramalised
caramalise the onions
onions carmalising
  1. add garlic & balsamic vinegar — cook until the vinegar has reduced to virtually nothing — about 20 mins
add the garlic
onions carmalising garlic added
  1. remove from the heat
  2. tip onto kitchen paper & allow to cool

Method for the sausage roll

  1. take both packs of sausages & remove the skins
  2. simply take a sharp knife and slice each from top to bottom
  3. pull the skin off the meat
  4. wrap in cling film and coax them together to form a sausage meat pate
  5. use your hands to stretch it out to form one huge sausage
form a huge sausage
sausage filling wrapped
  1. place your pastry next to the sausage meat and be sure you have enough length to slightly over fill, so you have spare sausage meat at the end to tuck in
  2. unwrap your pastry, place your sausage in the center
place sausage on pastry
sausage filling on pastry
  1. add your cooled onions on one side of the sausage meat
  2. egg wash all visable pastry on the inside edge & wrap the sausage
wrap the sausage
wrapping filling in pastry
  1. push the sausage meat in @ the ends to form the perfect BIG sausage
  2. now take a fork to the pastry join & completely seal everything in
  3. score the top of the pastry at an angle
score the pastry
raw sausage roll scored
  1. egg-wash the upper side & season well with salt & pepper
egg-wash the top
raw sausage roll egg washed
season with salt & pepper
raw sausage roll seasoned
  1. bake @ 180c for 45 minutes turning the tray occasionally to ensure an even bake
  2. once baked, leave to cool on a baking sheet for at least 30 minutes, or, it will just crumble and fall apart when you try to cut it!
allow to cool for a while
cooked sausage roll

Check for doneness: Use a meat thermometer, if you have one, and insert into the middle of the roll, temperature should be 75°C to 80°C. If you don't have a meat thermometer, insert a sharp knife into the center of the sausage roll for a few seconds, pull it out and touch the back of your hand, it should be too hot to keep it there!

Serving suggestion

Sausage Roll & Caramalised Onion Now this is easy, a fork ;-0 and some of my home made tomato chutney. Guess what? I made that on the same day too & never even broke out into Nutty's stess mode! Admittedly, we had some shoe string fries, as waiting for the sausage roll to cool was torture!

serve while warm...
sausage roll slices and chutney
...with home made tomato chutney
or cold!
sausage roll sliced
...with home made tomato chutney

Here's my Tomato Chutney Recipe. This is really easy to make too. So, if you have a few guests to please, you can wow them all the way back from Gregg's™ LOL!