Air Fryer Sausage Rolls

Flaky sausage rolls in twelve minutes. Room-temperature pastry, a proper crimp, an egg wash for the bakery shine, and space in the basket so they crisp instead of steaming.

Prep

15 min

Cook

12 min

Total

27 min

Serves

4

Ingredients

• 320g ready-rolled puff pastry (1 sheet)
• 400g sausagemeat, or 6 good sausages with the skins removed
• 1 tsp dried sage
• 1/2 tsp ground black pepper
• 1 egg, beaten

Method

1. Take the pastry out of the fridge 20 minutes before you use it. Cold pastry cracks when you unroll it.
2. Mix the sausagemeat with the sage and black pepper.
3. Unroll the pastry and cut it lengthways into two long strips.
4. Lay a line of sausagemeat down the middle of each strip. Brush one long edge with beaten egg, fold the pastry over and press to seal, then crimp along the edge with a fork.
5. Cut each strip into four, snip two small slits in the top of each and brush all over with beaten egg.
6. Air fry at 200°C (390°F) for 12 minutes, in a single layer with space between them, until deep golden and puffed. The centre should read 75°C (165°F).
7. Rest for 5 minutes before eating. The filling comes out molten.

Notes

• Let the pastry come up to room temperature first. Straight from the fridge it cracks along the fold instead of rolling.
• Space between them. Sausage rolls that touch steam each other and the sides stay pale and soft.
• Egg wash is what gives the bakery shine. Milk works and is what Curly's Cooking uses, but the colour comes out paler.
• 190°C (375°F) for 13 minutes also works, and is worth using if your air fryer runs hot and the pastry is colouring before the middle is done.
• Rest them properly. Straight out of the basket the filling is molten and the pastry has not set.
• Air fryer models vary. Treat the times as a guide, go by colour and crispness, and adjust the seasoning to your taste.

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Air fryer models vary in power and basket size, so treat the times here as a guide — go by colour and crispness rather than the clock, and adjust the seasoning and glaze to your taste.

Recipe source: Method corroborated across published UK air-fryer sausage roll recipes: Effortless Foodie (effortlessfoodie.com) and Curly's Cooking (curlyscooking.co.uk). Both use a sheet of ready-rolled puff pastry and sausagemeat, seal and crimp the long edge, snip the tops, wash the pastry and air fry in a single layer with the rolls not touching. They differ on temperature and time - Effortless Foodie uses 200°C (390°F) for 10-12 minutes, Curly's Cooking 190°C (375°F) for 13 - so 200°C (390°F) for 12 minutes is used here and the slower setting is given in the notes. Effortless Foodie also checks the centre reaches 75°C (165°F), which is the UK food standard for pork.