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.
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:-)