Usually, the sausage rolls recipe calls for puff pastry, while this recipe uses homemade brioche dough. The sweet dough nicely contrasts the saltiness of the sausages, and spicy mustard adds a little kick to each bite.
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When to make these sausage roll recipe
These sausage rolls are perfect for a Picnic, a buffet, and children’s party. You can serve them with a regular tomato sauce or with a red pesto sauce. If you are serving them for a buffet, you can cut them into small bites so they are easy to pick and only one dip in the sauce is required. The sausages are precooked 30 minutes before being cooked again once they are rolled into the dough. You can prepare them 1 hour before the party and bake them just before serving. They are delicious when they are freshly baked and still warm. I often make these sausage rolls when we go out for a picnic, which we often do here in the South of France. They are like hotdogs but with a natural sausage inside. My boys love them, and I usually have to bring at least 3 each. 
How to make the dough
To make the dough, you would need the following ingredients:
- 1 cup - 250 ml of milk
- 3 tablespoon melted butter
- 1 fresh egg
- 3 ½ cups - 450 g of flour
- ⅓ cup - 50 g of sugar
- 1.5 teaspoon salt
- 1 package of yeast
Because I make the dough in the bread machine, I found this recipe easy to make.
You just put all the ingredients in the machine, and the dough is ready when you need it. I can prepare the dough in the bread machine using a timer, so they are ready when I want. The only thing left to do is to prepare the rolls 1 hour before I want to serve them.
If you don't have the bread machine, you can find the recipe for making it by hand here:
Brioche & Bread Rolls’ dough without a bread machine
Preparing the sausage
To make sausage rolls is best to use thin sausage like chipolata. Toulouse sausages are too large and will take too long to cook. You risk burning the bun.
- Lay the sausage on a baking tray covered with parchment paper and make some holes in the sausages
- Cook the sausage in the oven at 180 C for only 30 minutes, leaving it still slightly pink. Let it cool down completely.
- If you like spicy food (not serving it to the children), you can cover the sausage with an excellent spicy English mustard.
Making the sausage rolls
Before you take out the dough from the bread machine basket, ensure you have sprinkled the board's surface with plenty of flour. The dough will be sticky, so you need to coat it with flour immediately to stop it from sticking to your hands.
- Put the dough on a wooden board well coated with flour and cut the dough into 10 parts.
- Cut each slice into two, rolling each piece the same length as the sausage
- Roll the dough
- Lay all the sausages on a baking tray
- Brush them with an egg wash
- If you made some rolls without mustard, sprinkle them with sesame seeds, so you distinguish them once they are cooked.
- Once the rolls are ready, let them rest for 30 minutes.
- Cook them in a hot oven for 30 minutes at 180C
Other recipes you can make for a cheesy picnic
If you are planning to make this bread for a picnic or a brunch/lunch buffet, here are some other recipes you may want to include in your menu:
- Italian cheese bread
- Beef sausage hand pies
- Heidi pie
- Cheese gougere bourguignonne
- Broad beans minestra
- Wild asparagus flans
- Rissole a la Dauphine
- Ham Spread Terrine With Cognac
More sausage recipes you can even have for breakfast
If you are looking for an excellent rich breakfast with sausage and eggs, you can check the recipes:
More recipes with sausages
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📋Brioche Sausage Rolls Recipe
Ingredients (Commissions Earned)
- 20 sausages or chipolata
- 1 tablespoon original English mustard optional
- ½ cup onion relish optional
For the dough
- 1 cup milk
- 3 tablespoon melted butter
- 1 fresh eggs
- 3 ½ cup flour
- ⅓ cup caster sugar
- 1.5 teaspoon salt
- 1 package yeast 2 tsp
- 1 fresh eggs for the egg wash
Equipment (Commissions Earned)
Instructions
Preparing the dough
- Load the ingredients into the machine and set the program for fresh dough (number 10 for Kenwood). The dough will be ready in 1.5 hours.1 cup milk, 3 tablespoon melted butter, 1 fresh eggs, 3 ½ cup flour, ⅓ cup caster sugar, 1.5 teaspoon salt, 1 package yeast
Preparing the sausages
- Lay the sausage on a baking tray covered with parchment paper and make some holes in the sausages20 sausages or chipolata
- Cook the sausage in the oven at 355 F - 180 C for only 30 minutes, leaving it still slightly pink. Let it cool down completely.
Making the buns
- Before you take out the dough from the bread machine basket, make sure you have sprinkled the surfaced of the board with plenty of flour. The dough will be sticky so you need to coat it with flour immediately to stop it from sticking to your hands.
- Put the dough on a wooden board well coated with flour and cut the dough into 20 parts
- Roll each piece the same length as the sausage
- Place a sausage in the center and add a spoon of onion relish½ cup onion relish
- If you like spicy food (and not serving them to the children), you can cover the sausage with a good spicy English mustard.1 tablespoon original English mustard
- Roll the dough around the sausage
- Lay all the sausages on a baking tray
- Brush them with an egg wash.1 fresh eggs
- Once the rolls are ready, let them rest for 30 minutes.
- Cook them in a hot oven for 30 minutes at 355 F - 180C
- You can serve them whole for a picnic or children's parties or cut them in smaller sizes for a buffet
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Notes
- Use a bread machine to make the dough, so much easier
- Buy small sausages, too large will make the buns overcooked
- Make holes in the sausage before pre-baking them so the fat will drain out
- To make the roll spicy cover the sausages with some mustard
- Before you take out the dough from the bread machine basket, make sure you have sprinkled the surfaced of the board with plenty of flour. The dough will be sticky so you need to coat it with flour immediately to stop it from sticking to your hands.
- Brush the rolls with egg wash to make it shine
- If you made some rolls without mustard, sprinkle them with sesame seeds so you distinguish them once they are cooked.
- Let the buns rise again before baking them
- Leave them whole if you are taking them to a picnic, cut in bites if you are serving them as appetizers
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Brian Jones
I'd love to know where the idea of puff pastry on sausage rolls came from, I never saw puff on a sausage roll until they became available frozen... All the sausage rolls from my childhood came with a shortcrust pastry, probably because I was bought up in a family of butchers and that is where they came from, I don't know a single butcher with the patience to make puff pastry 😉 😀
I love the sound of these, they are almost a cross between a hotdog and a sausage roll in a proper fancy casing.
Laura
I think you are right Brian, it must be a frozen food story. Shortcrust pastry sounds nice and easy. It is like a hotdog, but I rather have a proper sausage instead.
Russ
I was brought up in Adelaide and almost lived on Balfours sausage rolls. They were always made with a puff, or at least, a rough puff
Corina Blum
This recipe sounds delicious! I do like the sound of the sausages inside the brioche and so convenient for picnics.
Laura
Thank you Corina. It is often our picnic treat
Amanda Wren-Grimwood
I really love this idea Laura with the secret sausage inside. I can see that kids would really love them so they are definitely on my picnic list now.
Laura
Boys love those type of surprises
Beth
These look so good! I love using the brioche! In the US we make these with hot dogs for the kids. Sausage sounds like an adult alternative!
Laura
Yes, when the boys now teenagers want real food!
Justine Moore
Brilliant I made these for the Macmillan coffee morning charity event using my bread machine worked out so well. I pre cooked the pork sausages along with thinly sliced red onions with home made green tomato ketchup and let it cool. Really great savoury choice for a bake sale!
Laura
Thank you so much for letting me know, I am delighted. You adding the red onion and homemade green ketchup is a great idea. They are a great savoury choice for a bake sale. Everyone loves them