Cheese and onion pork sausage rolls

Ingredients

• 1 pound / 425 grams pork sausages (6 or 8 sausages depending on size.)
• 1 cup / 125 grams grated cheddar cheese
• 1 medium onion (grated) (approximately 1 cup)
• 1 roll store-bought puff pastry
• 1 mediuim egg (lightly beaten)

Instructions

1. 1

   Remove the skin (or casing) from the sausages and discard it. Put the sausage meat into a mixing bowl.

2. 2

   Grate the cheese and the onion on a box grater and add to the sausages.

3. 3

   Get your hands in and mix everything together until well combined.

4. 4

   Unroll the puff pastry (leave it on the paper it was wrapped in) and arrange 2 rows of the mince mixture down 2 halves of the pastry (top to bottom along the long side).

5. 5

   Cut the pastry in half using a sharp knife and brush with lightly beaten egg down the pastry on one side of each roll of the mince mixture.

6. 6

   Roll the pastry over the mince mixture, starting with the un-egg-washed side (use the paper to help you) and form a long sausage with each roll.

7. 7

   Cut each sausage into 8 equal pieces and make 2 slits on top of the pastry on each piece.

8. 8

   Arrange the sausage rolls on a baking tray lined with baking parchment.If you don't have baking parchment you can brush the tin very lightly with sunflower oil.Brush the top of each sausage roll with the lightly beaten egg.

9. 9

   Bake the sausage rolls in a preheated oven (200C/ 400F) for 25 minutes until golden brown.