Hi! I posted a few days ago asking for help for making some vegetarian sausage rolls (I was later told by an American friend that they’re called pigs in a blanket) for my date. I got a lot of very helpful advice and tips that I put to use with great success!
I hereby present my vegetarian pigs in a blanket recipe!
Makes 10.
The sausages:
– 5 Vevia vegetarian sausages (or any sausages that doesn’t disintegrate when boiled)
– About 4-5 dl water
– A cube of vegetable bouillon
– A teaspoon MSG
– A dash of white vinegar
– Salt and pepper
The pastry:
– 50 grams of butter
– 0.5 dl buttermilk
– 1.4 dl water
– 15 grams of yeast
– Half an egg
– A tablespoon of sugar
– Less than half a teaspoon salt
– 345 grams all purpose flour
Before baking:
– The other half of the egg
– Sesame seeds
- Cut the sausages in half and poke holes with a fork in them so the stock could absorb into them better.
- Mix water, bouillon, vinegar, msg, salt and pepper together in a pot and bring it to a boil.
- Throw the sausage in a let them simmer while making the pastry.
- In another pot melt the butter then pour in the water and buttermilk.
- Add the water/buttermilk mixture to a stand mixer, but it should be no hotter than 37 degrees or you’ll kill the yeast that you will also add now.
- When fully incorporated with the yeast add the sugar, salt and egg.
- Sift the flour. This step is unnecessary but I like how smooth the dough becomes.
- Little by little add the flour until the dough is firm and smooth yet still a little sticky.
- Lightly flour a smooth surface (I have a silicone mat I use) then pour the dough onto it.
- Knead and roll the dough flat then cut out small pieces with either a pizza cutter, knife, ect.
- If you want ketchup you can lightly brush a layer on half the dough (otherwise they are difficult to close)
- Then roll up the sausages and put on a baking tray.
- Cover them all with a damp towel once done and let rise for 1.5-2 hours.
- 5-10 minutes before they’re done rising, preheat the oven to 190°C (375°F)
- When done rising brush the egg on top of the pastry and sprinkle some sesame seeds on top.
- Bake in the oven for 10-15 minutes and viola!
I am super appreciative of all the help I got to perfect the recipe and they were received very well by my date, who was flabbergasted by getting a whole bag of them haha. I am unsure about Americas imperial measurements, so you might need to do that yourself, otherwise I will maybe edit it later to translate it all. Last note I use a convection oven which uses fan heat, but according to google not all Americans has a convection oven so I lowered the temperature since for fan heat it’s supposed to be 200°C or about 392°F.
Thanks again everyone!!
by AyaDolly
1 Comment
Wow! You really put in an exceptional effort to make these, especially making the dough from scratch. I hope that you and your date thoroughly enjoyed them.