"Brabantse worstenbroodjes" (sausage rolls from Brabant)

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These sausage rolls are the traditional Christmas (breakfast) food in the part of the Netherlands where I live. My mum and I always make them ourselves. Here's the recipe.


ingredients (makes 17-18 sausage rolls):

dough
500 grams flour
10 grams yeast (the instant kind)
10 grams salt
10 grams sugar
10 grams butter
300 milliliter milk

meat
approx. 600 grams minced meat (I always use a mixture of pork and beef)
1 egg
breadcrumbs
a bit of salt and pepper

Make dough and let it rise for about an hour. In the meantime mix the minced meat, egg, breadcrumbs and salt and pepper. Divide the meat in 17-18parts of 35 grams each and make "sausages" of approximately 8 cm long.

Divide the dough in 17-18 parts of 47 grams and roll out into squares (approx. 10 cm long and three times as wide as the sausage. Put a little water on the two short sides of the dough and one long side. Put the sausage in the middle and fold in the two short sides and than the long side without the water and than close it.

Preheat the oven to 225 C. Let the sausage rolls rise for another 30 minutes. Bake the sausage rolls for 20 minutes.

You can put them in the freezer. To heat them up you can put thawed rolls in a preheated oven of 100 C for 10 minutes.

Eet smakelijk :-)