Paul Hollywood Sausage Rolls in the Air Fryer

Source video by Paul Hollywood on YouTube. This recipe was adapted with strict source-fidelity rules and is marked for human review.

Paul Hollywood's Easy Bakes sausage rolls use skinned Lincolnshire spicy sausages bound into one long sausage, laid on ready-rolled puff pastry with a generous line of caramelised onion. They are rolled tightly, egg-washed, scored, topped with sesame seeds and baked until golden. Originally an oven recipe at 200°C fan for 15-20 minutes, this version has been adapted to cook in the air fryer.

Ingredients

• Lincolnshire spicy sausages, skins removed
• plain flour, for dusting and binding
• caramelised onions

• 1 sheetready-rolled puff pastry, rolled out thinner, to roughly 35-40 cm by 15 cm

• 1 wholeegg, beaten, for egg wash (add late)
• sesame seeds, for sprinkling (add late)

Method

1. Squeeze the sausages out of their skins into a bowl. Mush the meat together with your hands, dust with a little flour to help it bind, and shape into one large ball ready to roll out.

   ~3 min

2. Lightly flour the worktop and roll the puff pastry sheet out thinner, to roughly 35-40 cm by 15 cm. Keep it cold and work quickly so the butter does not soften.

   ~3 min

3. On a floured bench, roll the sausage meat into a long sausage the same length as the pastry. Lay it along the pastry covering the full length.

   ~3 min

4. Spoon a line of caramelised onions along the top of the sausage meat from end to end, tucking some down the sides so there is onion in every bite.

   ~2 min

5. Fold the pastry over the filling and roll it up tightly, tucking the filling in with your thumbs as you go. Trim off the long edge so the seam sits flat, then roll once more to tighten. Press along the seam with your finger to seal, then roll so the seam is underneath.

   ~3 min

6. Trim off both ragged ends. Cut the long roll into individual sausage rolls (Paul makes large chunky ones).

   ~2 min

7. Beat the egg and brush the rolls generously all over the top. Make a small cut or two across the top of each roll to let steam escape and the pastry open up, then scatter with sesame seeds if using.

   ~3 min

8. Preheat the air fryer to 180°C. Place the sausage rolls in the basket seam-side down, in a single layer with space between them. Cook for 14-16 minutes until the pastry is deep golden and crisp and the sausage is fully cooked through. Cook in batches if needed.

   ~15 min

9. Rest the sausage rolls for at least 10 minutes before eating, so the pastry sets and the filling is not scalding.

   ~10 min

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