These sausage rolls create a simple way to make the best savoury snack for the Christmas period.

Ingredients:

  • 320g sheet of ready-rolled shortcrust pastry
  • 2-3 tsp cranberry sauce (plus extra for dipping)
  • 4 organic streaky bacon rashers from Helen Browning’s
  • I pack of Helen Browning’s cocktail sausages
  • 1 egg (beaten)

Method:

  1. Unroll the puff pastry and, still on its paper lining, roll it out slightly wider and longer. Cut 3 lines length ways to make 4 even strips of pastry. Divide each strip into 3 even pieces. Put a dot of cranberry sauce in the centre of each piece of pastry, then cut each bacon rasher into 3 pieces and use them to top the cranberry dots.
  2. Put one cocktail sausage cross ways on each piece of bacon, then roll up the pastry so the ends just overlap. Trim off and reserve any off-cuts. Put the seams underneath, then brush all over with the beaten egg and put on a baking sheet lined with compostable baking paper. Shape the off-cuts into decorations, if you like, secure with more beaten egg, then chill for 20 minutes.
  3. Bake at 200°C/180°C fan/gas 6 for 30-35 minutes until golden and puffed, then serve with extra cranberry sauce for these perfect sausage rolls.