Take a Packet of Puff Pastry

Sausage Sage and Apple Plait

This makes a nice warming main meal if served with gravy and vegetables or you can serve it with a side salad. It is very tasty.


Ingredients

9oz puff pastry
9oz sausagemeat
1 small onion peeled and very finely chopped
2 tsp chopped sage fresh
2 small cooking apples peeled cored and chopped
2 hard boiled eggs chopped
salt
Freshly ground black pepper
1 egg beaten to glaze

Roll out the pastry onto a lightly floured board to an oblong approximately 12 inches by 10 inches. Transfer the pastry to a baking sheet.

Mix together the sausagemeat onion sage apple and chopped eggs and season with salt and pepper.

Shape the mixture into a roll and place it along the centre of the pastry.

Cut the pastry on each side of the filling into 1/2 inch wide strips making diagonal cuts. Brush the strips with beaten egg.

Wrap the pastry striops over the filling to enclose it and brush the top with egg.

Bake the plait in the oven pre-heated to 400 degrees F Gas mark 6 for about 35 minutes until the top is golden and brown.

Serve hot or cold.

Enjoy this is a very tasty meal.