Cheese and Bacon Sausage Rolls

Name: Cheese and Bacon Sausage Rolls
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 25 min
Total time: 30 min
Ingredients: 500 grams beef mince; 2 rashers bacon (diced); 1 cup cheddar cheese (grated); 1 teaspoon mixed herbs (or 2 teaspoon fresh herbs- like parsley, oregano etc); 4 sheets puff pastry; milk for brushing; nigella seeds for topping

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Let's take the humble sausage roll and make it more awesome! Cheese and bacon sausage rolls are the perfect way to make sausage rolls even more delicious and even more addictive! Perfect for a party, a picnic or just for lunch, they are absolutely delicious. Make a batch in under 30 minutes, with puff pastry. They taste just like bakery sausage rolls, and you know what's in them!

cheese and bacon sausage rolls on a plate

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1 Why you're going to love this recipe

2 What goes into the recipe

3 How to make this recipe

4 Expert Tips and FAQs

5 More sausage roll ideas

6 Cheese and Bacon Sausage Rolls

Why you're going to love this recipe

This recipe is a family favourite! We love sausage rolls, whether they are "Healthy" beef and veggie sausage rolls, Chicken and Vegetable Sausage Rolls or these yummy Pork, Apple and Veggie Sausage Rolls. But these ones are extra special! Here is why you're going to love them:

everything tastes better wrapped in pastry
perfect for parties, at home lunches, or even in the lunchbox
extra flavoursome thanks to the bacon and cheese
classic flavour the whole family loves
just like bakery sausage rolls
easy to make
freezer friendly, freeze before cooking, or after
great for dipping in tomato sauce

What goes into the recipe

don't forget to scroll to the recipe card for amounts and full method!

ingredients: beef mince, puff pastry, bacon, cheese, milk, nigella seeds, mixed herbs

beef mince- I buy five star mince, regardless of what I'm making, but for these sausage rolls it's particularly important, because the cheese and bacon contribute to the fat content of these sausage rolls!
bacon- you can either buy diced bacon, or use rashers of bacon and dice them yourself
cheese- grate from a block! Why? It's cheaper, and it tastes better!
puff pastry- I use butter puff, allow it to defrost completely before using, it normally takes about 15 minutes, depending on your room temp.

How to make this recipe

Coimbine the beef mince, mixed herbs, cheese and bacon in a large bowl. Mix until well combined. (Image 1)
Divide the mixture in 4 and make a log along a sheet of patry. (Image 2)
Roll until you reach to other edge for the pastry (Image 3)
Cut each log into 5 rounds (Image 4)

Mixing the ingredients, making a log on pastry, rolling the pastry, cutting into sausage rolls

Place on a lined baking tray, seam down. Brush with milk. (Image 5)
Top with nigella seeds (if using) and bake at 220 degrees celsius for 25 minutes. (Image 6)

brushing with milk, adding nigella seeds

Expert Tips and FAQs

Make sure your oven is fully heated up before you pop these in, or you risk soggy pastry, something that no-one likes! They are freezer friendly, just roll and then freeze, brush with milk when frozen and top with the seeds and bake from frozen, keeping an eye on them as they may need 5 minutes or so more.

How hot should my oven be when cooking puff pastry?

Puff pastry needs a HOT Oven (220º celsius or 428F). Especially when it has has cold filling. There is a fine line between: getting the pastry cooked perfectly and cooking the meat to a suitable temp. Preheat your oven for at least ½ hour before cooking. When they have finished cooking, check the bottoms. If they are even slightly soggy (shouldn't happen if your oven is hot enough) then flip them and cook the bases for 5 minutes.

Can I cook these from frozen?

They are freezer friendly, just roll and then freeze, brush with milk when frozen and top with the seeds and bake from frozen, keeping an eye on them as they may need 5 minutes or so more.

Can I swap the bacon and cheese?

The best bet if you don't want to make these as cheese and bacon sausage rolls is to try another sausage roll recipe. We have beef and veggie ones, chicken, Mexican beef and pork and apple!

More sausage roll ideas

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