QUICK EASY SAUSAGE ROLLS
Jimmy Dean Maple Sausage (smaller roll, comes in a gold package)
1-1/2 pastry puff sheets
1-2 cups Italian bread crumbs
1 egg mixed with 1 tablespoon milk
egg brush
1 cup of flour
rolling pin
Sprinkle flour over pastry, roll out pastry as per package directions.
Mix sausage and bread crumbs.
Cut pastry into 3 inch wide, 1. 5 ft long strips; pastry should be rolled out enough to make about 3 or 4 of these strips.
Roll sausage between hands to form strips of sausage about 1 inch thick and 1.5 feet long.
Place rolled out sausage at the edge of pastry roll pastry over sausage. Brush egg next to folded pastry (to make pastry stick together).
Roll sausage over brushed egg (this should leave you with a long strip of sausage inside pastry).
Brush egg over pastry. Cut strip into 1.5 inch sections. Put 3 small slits into each sausage roll.
Repeat with remaining sausage and pastry.
Place on tin foil or greased pan.
Bake at 350°F about 20 minutes - check periodically.
Don't be alarmed if sausage rolls are rolling around, the fat causes them to do so.
When sausage rolls are done, pastry should be lightly brown and sausage should be fully cooked.
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SAUSAGE ROLLS
1 pkg. frozen puff pastry (NOTE: There 2 packs per box Pepperidge Farm puff pastry)
1 pack (approximately 1 lb.) frozen sausage meat or fresh
Flour for rolling
Milk or egg for glazing (optional)
Pastry is already in a rectangular shape, roll out, keeping the rectangular shape until approximately 9x12 inches. Cut this in half lengthwise.
Take sausage meat with floured hands, divide in half and roll until the length of the pastry. Place on center of pastry. Repeat a second time. With water, wet all around pastry (not too wet, just to seal).
Wrap pastry over sausage meat and seal pastry edges with prongs of a fork. Cut into 12 equal pieces (24 in all) and place on cookie sheet. Cook at 350 degrees for 8-10 minutes until golden and puffed. Eat hot or cold.
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SAUSAGE ROLLS
1/2 lb. sausage
1 med. green pepper, finely chopped
1/2 c. finely chopped onion
1 clove garlic, minced
2 tbsp. ketchup
16 oz. pkg. hot roll mix
1/2 tsp. oregano, crushed
8 oz. Mozzarella cheese, shredded
Cook sausage until well-browned, breaking into small pieces. Remove sausage from skillet. Cook pepper, onion and garlic in drippings from sausage. Cook about 5 minutes, stirring occasionally or until tender. Add onion-pepper mixture to sausage and add ketchup.
Prepare hot roll mix according to package directions, stirring in oregano. Grease 2 large baking sheets. Preheat oven to 375 degrees. On lightly floured surface with lightly floured rolling pin, roll dough into a 12-inch square. Sprinkle with half the cheese.
Spoon sausage mixture evenly over cheese. Sprinkle with remaining cheese. Roll up jelly-roll fashion, pinching seams to seal. With serrated knife, cut roll cross-wise into 1-inch slices. Place 3-inches apart on baking sheets. Bake 20 minutes or until golden brown.