Sweet Chilli Sausage Plait is a delicious mix of sausage meat, carrot, red onion, green chillies and sweet chilli sauce all wrapped up in a puff pastry plait. Great hot for dinner or cold for a picnic!
In celebration of British Sausage Week which runs from 2 – 8 November, I decided I wanted to make a sausage plait which became this Sweet Chilli Sausage Plait.
I have to admit that I’ve been intrigued by them ever since watching Nanny Pat on The Only Way is Essex as it seems to be her signature dish. (Did I just say that in public?)
So wanting to come up with my take on the humble sausage plait I decided to give it a makeover tailoring it to my family’s taste.
Being a big chilli lover and not wanting to make it too hot for my daughter, I embarked on a fusion of Asian and British cuisine by making a Sweet Chilli Sausage Plait.
If you like things hotter you could always add the seeds from the green chilli to notch up the heat!
To counteract the chilli I added some grated carrot and red onion for sweetness and then finished off with a layer of Thai sweet chilli sauce before wrapping in pastry.
I’m pleased to say this sausage plait went down a storm and has already been repeated. Serve it hot or cold (leftovers taste great and are perfect for a picnic)!
Enjoy with baked beans or a salad and then sit back and wait for the compliments!
More Sausage Recipes
Here are some more sausage recipes that you should try:
- Scrumptious Chipolata Tagliatelle – Fab Food 4 All
- Turkey Meatloaf – Fab Food 4 All
- Boston Baked Beans & British Bangers – Kavey Eats
- Slow Cooked Pork Sausage, Cranberry & Green Lentil Stew – Foodie Quine
- Super Sticky Sausages with Creamy Mustard Pasta – Munchies & Munchkins
- Cowboy Stew – The Hedge Combers
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Sweet Chilli Sausage Plait
Ingredients
- 400g – 450g Pack of good quality pork sausages min 90% pork, skinned
- 1 Medium carrot grated
- 1 Medium red onion finely chopped
- 1 Large green chilli finely chopped (seeds removed)
- 1 Garlic clove crushed
- 3 tbsp Dry natural breadcrumbs
- 1 tbsp Thai sweet chilli sauce
- Ready rolled puff pastry sheet cut to 25cm x 30cm
- 1 Egg whisked for egg wash
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 200°C.
- Place the first 6 ingredients into a bowl and mix thoroughly with your hands.
- Place the pastry sheet onto baking paper on a baking sheet.
- Place sausage meat in the centre and form a brick shape leaving a 3cm gap at either end.
- Spread the Thai sweet chilli sauce over the sausage meat.
- Cut strips measuring 1.5cm at an angle along both sides and trim the two ends to form flaps.
- Fold one end flap over the sausage meat and then fold over the strips in alternate layers to form a plait, moistening the tips with water to secure.
- Finish by tucking in the end flap and brushing the pastry with egg wash.
- Bake in the oven for 35 – 40 minutes until golden brown and sausage meat is cooked.
- Serve hot or cold.
Roseanne
Tastes amazing, used home made sweet chili sauce, had the leftovers cold, and still as tasty, would make as a great picnic snack
Camilla
Thank you so much Roseanne, you’re right about a picnic snack, I took this to our street party one year and there wasn’t a slice left as everyone loved it:-) Love that you made it with your own chili sauce too!
Claire Harris
Can I make this ahead of time and freeze ?, I assume I can
Camilla
Hi Claire, I haven’t done this but would freeze before baking, then thaw, glaze and bake.
Margaret Gallagher
Yummy – quick easy and will go down a treat here – great Christmas recipe
Margaret gallagher
Oh this looks delicious my family would love it
Amy Fidler
This would be ideal for family picnics x
A S,Edinburgh
This looks delicious! A great twist on traditional ingredients.
Camilla
Thanks, it’s so tasty:-)
Terrie-Ann Wright
this looks amazing, I have a real thing for pastries at the minute, so might have to give this one a go.
styles5433
Going to cook this for the children they will love it –me Too!
Camilla
I’m sure they will:-)
Elizabeth
Mmm this sounds lovely! It would make an attractive centerpiece too, for a festive dinner. 🙂
Camilla
Thank you Elizabeth:-)
William Gould
It looks great! Delicious, filling and warming, perfect for winter!
Camilla
Thanks William, it’s a favourite here;-)
Abigail Cullen
Wow, what a great dish, this really has my taste buds going.
Camilla
Thanks, you’ll just have to make one now:-)
DANIELLE VEDMORE
Have made this a few times and its always turned out well 😀 Very tasty!
Camilla
Great Danielle, my family love it too:-)
Dannii @ Hungry Healthy Happy
What a comforting dish! I put sweet chilli sauce on almost everything – I love the stuff.
Camilla
Thanks Dannii – yes that and Sriracha are popular here:-)
paperwrist
This looks so good such a simple addition but the sweet Chilli really makes it pop and I think this would be a welcome addition to my boxing day buffet 🙂
Emma @ Supper in the Suburbs
Sausage plait was one of the first things I learnt to make in Food Technology at Secondary School 🙂 BUT ever since learning how to make it I have never strayed from the classic recipe…This sounds like a fantastic variation!
Camilla
Thanks Emma:-) I never learned to make one at school and feel I missed out LOL! Mine was inspired by Nanny Pat on TOWIE:-)
Emily Leary
I love sweet chilli and that’s beautiful pastry work, Camilla. Looks gorgeous. I shall be giving it a try.
Camilla
Thanks Emily! It’s so quick and easy, we had it again this week:-)
Jo of Jo's Kitchen
This looks delicious and such a simple idea
Camilla
Thanks Jo, we had it again last night, very popular here;-)
Sarah Brokenshire
this looks so delicious- going to try this for sure xxx
Camilla
Great Sarah do let me know how you get on:-)
kimberley ryan
this looks amazing
Camilla
Thank you Kimberley, I’m going to make another one very soon:-)
Nicole Neverman
This sounds so delicious! I love the Asian inspired twist to this. This would make a great change to the regular old sausage roll 🙂
Camilla
Thank you Nicole:-)
Patricia @ Grab a Plate
Wow this looks amazing! What a welcoming and hearty dish for dinner! I’ve made a dessert in this way, so nice to have a savory dish like yours to try!
Camilla
Thank you, dessert sounds good too:-)
Heather Haigh
That looks so scrumptious!
Camilla
Thanks Heather:-)
Janie
Eeek, that looks bleddy ‘ansum Camilla! My Jonny would be beside himself with this in his packed lunch, will forward him the link 😉
Janie x
Camilla
Thanks Janie:-)
peter @feedyoursoultoo
Truly loving the look of this dish!
Camilla
Thank you so much Peter:-)
Dannii @ Hungry Healthy Happy
I love how a simple plait can make it look really striking. Now this is proper comfort food!
Camilla
Thanks Dannii, it is so simple as you say;-)
kate @veggie desserts
What a showstopper! I could easily make this with veggie sausages or veggie haggis. Love it!
Camilla
I’d like to try that too Kate, had never thought of it;-)
martinaevansdesigns
Looks Fab! This will go down a treat at ours for sure. I just hope mine comes out as well.
Camilla
Thanks Martina, do show and tell if you make it:-)
Stuart Vettese
Love this Camilla, the sweet chilli would be a lovely kick and the crisp pastry – oh my!
Camilla
Thanks Stuart, I’m sure you’d love it:-)
Claire Jessiman
Love this! A perfect weekday supper for the family.
Camilla
Thanks Claire:-)
Tina @ The Spicy Pear
Wow that looks beautiful and I’m sure tasty too. I love the fusion of Thai sweet chilli flavours also. My husband will love this, it’s like a gigantic sausage roll. Although I can’t promise it will look like yours, I’m rubbish at plaiting.
Thank you for featuring my Sausage Egg Muffin dish.
Camilla
Thank you and I’m sure you’d be fine a plaiting that’s why I included the mid plait shot as it’s easier to see that way:-)
lisa
This looks and sounds awesome! Have wanted to make a plait for a while, you make it look so easy! This is definitely a crowd-pleaser
Camilla
Thank you Lisa, I hadn’t made a sausage plait before this and I really must make it again soon as we all loved it.
Kavita
That plait is a thing of beauty!! And it’s making me hungry too!
Camilla
Aaw, thank you Kavey it was delicious:-)
Nayna Kanabar
You have plaited this beautifully, it looks really great perfect for picnics too.
Camilla
Thank you Nayna, maybe it’s from all the hair plaiting I’ve done over the years LOL:-)
tiggerific1973
Another fantastic recipe! Would be great for a picnic!
Camilla
Ooh yes, definitely:-)
Jane Davies
This looks delicious 🙂 This will go down a treat at ours for sure !
Camilla
Thank you, it’s been quite popular:-)
sweetpea65
This looks and sounds delicious. My kids would love this so i’m going to try it out next week.
Camilla
Thanks, I’m sure they’ll love it:-)
Lynn Fancy
Something different to try for Easter weekend, fed up of roasting just for me!
Sarah Cooper
This looks amazing!
Farhana
This will go down a treat in our household. Thanks for sharing
Paul Wilson
I bet the Sweet Chilli gives it a nice kick.
Ursula Hunt
This is really tasty and goes down a treat in our house
Camilla
Thank you, glad to hear that;-)
Anne Dalzell
This would be a tasty treat on a windy cold night like tonight
William Gould
Looks fantastic! Wife wouldn’t like it though….. She’s a fussy eater!
Camilla
I’ve a whole family of fussy eaters, half the time I ignore them and then they eat what I make even if it’s something they won’t normally eat LOL!
Heather Haigh
How very elegant that looks. Bet it tastes good too.
Camilla
Ooh yes:-)
Laura Caraher
This sounds delicious I must make it soon 🙂
Heather Haigh
This sounds divine!
Hafsah
I’ve always wondered how the plaits were made! 🙂
Helen Allan
This looks lovely. A perfect winter warmer. 🙂
Maya Russell
Great recipe. I think I’d have to leave out the green chilli (for my children). They’d like the sweet chilli sauce though I’m sure.
Camilla
Like Nigel Slater says, take a recipe and use it as a starting point:-)
Paul Wilson
Looks delicious.
Camilla
Thanks:-)
Hannah Weetman
Sounds absolute delicious! And certainly looks very impressive
Camilla
Thanks, looks impressive and yet so quick and easy:-)
Ruth Hedges
Looks so tasty – I hope mine comes out as well as this one looks 🙂 x
Camilla
I’m sure it will:-)
Herbert Appleby
I’d like to wolf some of this down after a long days work mmm mmmmmmmmmm
Camilla
Thank you, it’s very easy to put together after a day’s work:-)
sarah brooker
this looks amazing.
Stacey D
Perfect for those cold days
Camilla
Thank you:-)
Ursula Hunt
I made this last night and it was delicious
Camilla
Brilliant, thank you so much for letting me know:-)
rachj2001
Sounds lush! My mum used to make garlic sausage meat plaits so going to show this recipe to her too 🙂
Camilla
Fab, she’d probably like this too then:-)
Paul Wilson
Good way to spice up sausage rolls.
Camilla
Yes, you make sausage rolls like this too:-)
Dan Murphy
Spicy sausage roll; what’s not to love!
Camilla
Hope you give it a try:-)
Anne
Ooh yum, that looks delicious! Have not had pastry in ages, think its long overdue to eat this!!
Lisa Williams
I wish I had seen this before bonfire night it would of been perfect for watching the fireworks 🙂
Camilla
Aah, maybe next year then:-)
Anne Wallwin
oohh that looks lovely. A nice winter warmer!
Camilla
Thank you, it’s so quick and easy:-)
Tracy Nixon
I’m making this at the weekend – a great Winter warmer thanks!
Camilla
Fab, let me know how you get on:-)
Janice
That looks lovely, love sausages.
Camilla
Thanks Janice:-)
Carol Egan
Sounds delicious and even I can do this (I Think!!)
Camilla
Thanks, of course you can it’s dead easy:-)
Anneli Faiers
Looks really good. Would make a lovely addition to a buffet. I shall keep it in mind for Christmas 🙂
Camilla
Thank you Anneli:-)
Dom
this. looks. awesome… want it NOW!
Camilla
Aah thank Dom that means a lot coming from you:-)
Ursula Hunt
Looks delicious, I love Sausages
Camilla
Thank you, yep you can’t go far wrong with sausages:-)
DANIELLE VEDMORE
Looks lovely Camilla – you have made it look so easy. Have never done a sausage plait but definitely want to do one now!
Camilla
Aah, thank you Danielle, it is really simple but effective:-) Let me know how you get on!