Nigerian Sausage Rolls

Ingredients:

500 g flour

2 eggs

1/2 tbsp salt

340 g butter

120 ml water

1 egg yolk

Sausage pieces or sausage meat shaped into sausages (mini sausages or even hotdogs also work)

1/4 onion, very finely chopped

1 red chilli, very finely chopped

1/4 tsp ground cumin

1/4 tsp black pepper

Cooking Instructions:

Combine the flour and butter then add the whole eggs and form into a dough. Knead for at least ten minutes until it becomes elastic then cover and set aside to rest for 2 hours. Meanwhile cook the sausages (or sausagemeat) along with the spices, chilli and onion until nicely browned, but do not allow to cook all the way through. Roll out the dough on a lightly-floured surface then fold in half and roll out again. Repeat this process for at least eight folds then roll the pastry out a ninth time, ensuring it's not too thick. Cut a strip about 8cm wide, place a sausage in the end, cut the dough to size then wrap the dough completely around the sausage. Set aside on a lightly-oiled baking tray, setting it down with the pastry overlap on the bottom. Repeat until the pasrty is used up, then cut a new strip and begin the process again. Lightly whisk the egg yolk and use to brush the top and sides of the pastry. Place the sausage rolls in an oven pre-heated to 190C and bake for about 20 to 25 minutes, or until slightly flaky and necely browned all over.

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