Bacon, brussel sprout and chestnut sausages![]()
I could eat a plate of brussel sprouts on their own. They have to be cooked so that they
are soft though. Why the **** do restaurants think that hard brussels are good?
Bacon, brussel sprout and chestnut sausages![]()
I buy turkey sausages with garlic and chilli from my local farmers market. Delicious.View attachment 102568
Sausage recipe: cook sausage; insert sausage in hot dog roll; apply ketchup.
I could eat a plate of brussel sprouts on their own. They have to be cooked so that they
are soft though. Why the **** do restaurants think that hard brussels are good?
I seem to think that this is why the majority of recipes advise using pork belly as it has a high fat %.
Thanks, and I will guinea pig the recipe this week. No guinea pig included in the recipe ingredients of course.
Any half decent veggie recipes?
TNBA
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I could eat a plate of brussel sprouts on their own. They have to be cooked so that they
are soft though. Why the **** do restaurants think that hard brussels are good?
If you want to make the best sausage rolls....
You need a not too ground sausage meat, I think the best is waitrose - the one with nutmeg.
Either sausages or sausage meat - doesn't matter. If you want to go my way, it's two packs of the sausage meat (about 450g) and two packs of Jus Roll pre rolled vegetable fat puff pastry.
The butter based one is two greasy (more later) and other brands simply aren't as good.
You then 1) Accentuate the flavours of the meat 2) Add to the meat what you would eat it with.
So I add more nutmeg, onion and garlic powder (not salt) and pepper and two each tablespoons of mustard, brown sauce and ketchup. You then add a handful of breadcrumbs to counter act the liquid you have added.
Now the important bit.
The pastry rolls are cut into two on the longest edge.
You split the mixture in 4 and roll to the length of the pastry.
You brush the inside of the pastry with mustard.
You egg and bread crumb (yes really) the sausage meat before putting in the pastry. It works on the beef wellington technique of wrapping in pancake, soaking up the extra liquid.
Glaze with egg and meat and cook at 180, turning down a bit before the end so the pastry doesn't burn.
Now the controversial bit. Cover the sausage rolls in foil and let steam a bit. The pastry turn chewy and you will have sausage rolls oozing with flavour.
I make them all the time the previous night and cook them in the morning and take them into work. I've got 6 tiles wrapped in foil that I heat up in the oven and put in the bottom of a thermos bag, cork tile underneath to stop it melting the bag.
I open the bag at work to what I can only describe as a "pork sauna".
They are gone in minutes.
I commend anyone who can make a cracking scotch egg at the first time of asking. So there's your challenge OP!
Making scotch eggs is hard enough - I tried to perfect the runny yolk versions. Needless to say, many eggs were broken in achieving this. You have to soft boil the eggs and then drop them straight into iced water to stop them cooking. The biggest issue is peeling the eggs end then trying not to burst them when wrapping them in the sausage meat.