Cooking Corner — Chicken, Bacon and Cheddar Sausage Rolls

Grandpa’s Chicken, Bacon and Cheddar Sausage Rolls

Ingredients:

• 1 egg
• 1/4 cup milk
• 500g chicken mince
• 1 cup fresh breadcrumbs
• 1 1/2 cups cheddar cheese, grated
• 2 rashers middle bacon finely chopped
• 2 spring onions, finely chopped
• 1 small granny smith apple, grated
• 1 carrot, grated
• 1/3 cup flat-leaf parsley finely chopped
• 1/3 cup coriander leaves finely chopped
• 3 tablespoons tomato chutney
• ½ teaspoon ground coriander powder
• ½ teaspoon paprika powder
• Salt and freshly ground black pepper
• 3 sheets butter puff pastry, thawed
• Sesame or poppy seeds, for sprinkling

Method:

1. Preheat oven to 200C. Line a baking tray with non-stick parchment paper.
2. Make egg wash by beating egg into milk, set aside.
3. Combine chicken, breadcrumbs, cheddar, bacon, onion, apple, carrot, parsley, coriander, coriander powder, paprika and chutney in a large bowl, season generously and knead until sticky.
4. Cut pastry sheets in half. Shape meat into logs along the centre of each piece of pastry, brush one edge with egg wash and firmly roll pastry over the meat, pressing to enclose edge. Cut each length into 6 sausage rolls.
5. Arrange sausage rolls on a prepared tray, brush with remaining egg wash and sprinkle with seeds.
6. Bake at 180 degrees for 25 minutes until golden brown.

Matt Rush