Sausage Meat

[EvianBaby]

You'll have to bare with me here as cooking is not exactly my forte.

I'm planning on making some sausage rolls for xmas (easy for most I'm sure) and I've found a recipe I want to use but it says I need to put the sausage meat in a food processer.

I don't own a food processor and I don't even know what sausage meat looks like when it is not in the form of a sausage. Is it going to be vital to put it in a food processer or can I just bash it up a bit?

[alid5]

Yes just bash it, itl be just to get it softened to be able to roll into sausage shape

[EvianBaby]

Brill. Thanks Alid! Didn't fancy going and buying one that would probably only get used once.

[puma86]

I used to make mine with sausages. Slice the skin and take out the meat - saves 'faffing' about :o)

[jamesnan]

Just use the sausage meat as it comes from the pack, no problem. Roll it out on a floured board till size required and do the same with the pastry. ie into a large rectangle. Lay 2 thin rolls of sausagemeat across the pastry and then cover with the outside edges of the pastry. Seal down, and then cut into sizes.

[EvianBaby]

Thanks for the tips! :)

[EcclesCake]

Quite often the sausage meat you buy is pretty poor quality. As has already been suggested buy your favourite sausages, if you put them in the freezer for half an our or so it makes it even easier to cut and remove the skins.

[coriander2]

I often buy decent chipolata sausages (skins removed) and spiral twist a strip of ready made puff pastry (which I first cut into strips), round and along each sausage and then place in oven until pastry is golden and sausage inside is cooked. They look very attractive and take little effort.

[gollob]

Sausage meat is perfectly acceptible but buy it from a private butcher and not a supermarket as most of the latter are rubbish. If you are using sausages just dip them in water and the skin will come off easily.

[SpikeyBush]

"Bash it up a bit"
LOL
Another student of the Jeremy Clarkson cookery college.
Pass the lumphammer please. Subtlety a speciality.

[Hopkirk]

I will bear with you, but I won't bare with you.

Cheeky.

[Anngel123]

I can recommend the butter puff pastry they sell in Sainsbury (and poss other supermarkets) it makes the sausage roll extra yummy. I find that, as said by others, the meat from sausages with the skin removed is finer and has the added bonus of being an even shape. Enjoy. You will never want to eat shop bought sausage rolls again.

[EvianBaby]

Lol Hopkirk, I always get it wrong!

Thanks for the extra tips. I was going to buy some sausage meat from the butchers (can't bare/bear cheap sausages) but might just grab some decent sausages from them instead.

Then I'll bash em up :)