Sunday, January 15, 2012

Party food or just yummy morning tea

I was scanning the fridge for healthy snacks this morning, and decided I had the fixings for some chicken sausage rolls- a perfect chance to try and adapt an old fave to the Thermo. First defrost 3 sheets of ready rolled puff pastry and pre-heat the oven to 200 degrees celcius (fan forced). Line a baking tray with baking paper. Into the thermo put a peeled and quartered a brown onion, a whole carrot and half a zucchini again quartered. Pulse on turbo 4 or 5 times for a fine dice, then add 15g oil and sauté at Varoma for 4 mins at speed 1 to soften. Next add a slightly defrosted chicken breast dcubed coarsely(5cm pieces or so) and 40-50g of stale bread torn into smaller pieces and blitz at speed 9 for 5 seconds. Season with 1/2 tsp of ground cumin and 1/2 tsp of garlic salt and blitz again for 3 seconds or until the mix is a fine mince. Cut the defrosted pastry sheets in half and create a sausage shaped strip of the mince mix down each of the 6 pastry rectangles lengthwise. Roll them into long sausage shapes with the seam on the underside. Cut them with a sharp knife at 2cm intervals to make bite sized morsels, lay out on the tray, brush each lightly with milk and bake for 20-25 minutes until puffed and golden. This recipe should make around 50 mini sausage rolls. Even our fussiest eater gave me 100 out of 100 score on these! I use low fat pastry but don't feel you have to, and you could certainly make your own rough puff if you have the energy, but these were 45 mins from start to stomach.

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