Your kids will love helping to make these easy, tasty, healthier sausage rolls! They are packed full of veggies and fruit and taste the better for it.

You could call them ‘hidden veggie’ sausage rolls but I prefer to let the kids know what they’re eating so that they can then learn to enjoy those foods!

The best thing about these sausage rolls is that your kids will need to get their hands dirty when mixing the sausage meat! And what child doesn’t love getting their hands dirty?

You can use these sausage rolls :

for school lunchboxes
for a grab and go breakfast
for an after school snack
for a weekend brunch or lunch

My boys both took them to school and scoffed them! They were a huge hit with them and with me as I knew they had got some extra nutrition in there as well!

Yield: 6

Author: Deirdre Doyle

Veg-packed sausage rolls

Prep time: 15 MinCook time: 30 MinTotal time: 45 Min

Easy, fruit and veg packed sausage rolls the kids will love making and eating!

Ingredients

1 medium carrot
1 medium eating apple
1 small red onion
500g sausage meat
Mixed herbs - I used fresh rosemary and parsley but you could use thyme as well - chopped finely
1 pack pre-prepared puff pastry
milk and sesame seeds to finish

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 180 degrees
Peel the carrot and onion. Grate the carrot, apple and onion
Gently cook the apple, carrot and onion for about 3-4 minutes just to soften them
Add the sausage meat to a large bowl. Add the cooked veggies on top.
Add any herbs or spices you're using
Mix well - best to use your hands here - the kids will love doing this!
Roll out the pastry
Place the mixture down the pastry lengthways in a line - about an inch from the edge (see image)
Roll the pastry over to create a cylinder. Cut off any extra pastry and fill that as well
Brush the top of the pastry with milk or whisked egg whites. Scatter sesame seeds or poppy seeds on top
Place on a lined baking tray and pop in the oven for about 30 minutes
Perfect for school lunchboxes or as an afterschool snack