12 Days of Christmas: Sausage Rolls
Day 7 with Milli Taylor!
We are just half way over the midpoint of the 12 days of Christmas, the Kitchen Projects recipe advent, a daily series of festive minded recipes, from homemade gift ideas to the best snacks. In case you missed it, here’s what we’ve had so far…
Day 2 - Hot Cocoa Mix by
Day 3 - Hot Buttered Rum Caramels by
Day 4 - Red Wine Prunes by
Day 5 - Kumquat Marmalade with Wholegrain Shortbread by
Day 6 - Bitter Grapefruit Concentrate (my fave!) by
We’ve got lots of goodies still to come, so let’s get into it shall we?
I’m thrilled to be sharing a gorgeous savoury recipe with you today straight from the mind and palette of Milli Taylor.
If you aren’t familiar with Milli (though I expect you are), she has decades of experience in the kitchen with catering, recipe development and cheffing galore. While she is currently running the Ottolenghi Test Kitchen and is head of food for Ottolenghi (yeah, I KNOW!!!), I have a special place in my heart for her cookbook. (Side note -
has launched a substack today!?!? amazing)
Published ten years ago, Party Perfect Bites is a classic, filled with brilliant recipes for entertaining. It’s an unbelievably useful book, from dips to flavour combos, and I’m thrilled to share a recipe that is perfect for the festive period: Persian Sausage Rolls.
Bolstered with sumac, barberries and subtle spices, these are gorgeous. You can use pre-made puff pastry, but i mixed up a batch of rough puff for these and I absolutely loved them. The recipe is in SIFT on page 128, but i’ll share the recipe below, too.
The size is up to you - if you are serving a big group, you can make the sausage rolls smaller and get a higher yield, or if you want more of a big bite / snack / starter size, you can put the sausage-mix more thickly onto the pastry and cut bigger bites.
These really are the best sausage rolls I’ve ever had, so I can’t wait for you to try these.