EASY SAUSAGE ROLLS
I love pastries. Only problem with them is how fattening they are but………………who cares as long as your mouth is happy you can go to the gym later right? RIGHT. Now on to the first problem…..it is so HARD to get a decent pastry in Nairobi! Most places you go to the pastries are too “bready” not soft enough, not buttery enough as in they just don’t melt in your mouth! Well because of this I’ve been thinking of learning how to make my own pasty for the longest time but I had two miserable solo attempts( I will post my failures soon) and I have decided to get some classes. Anyway before my attempts to make my own pastry I made this little sausage rolls using store bought puff pastry. They were a real hit. I tried them again last weekend when I had visitors over and they were the first items to run out. When I made them last weekend I did not have the store bought pastry and my attempts of making my own had failed so I used this dough recipe and they stilled turned out quite good. I would still go for the puff pastry but if you’re pressed for time or find the store bought one too expensive then try the easy recipe you will not be disappointed. HAPPY COOKING!!!
Ingredients
- 1 roll of store bought puff pastry (you can get this at the frozen section of the supermarkets)
- 400gms spiced sausages (pork, beef or chicken)
- ½ a medium onion
- 1 tablespoon of butter
- 1 tablespoon of garlic
- 2 tablespoons of breadcrumbs
- Small bunch of dhania (Coriander)
- 1 egg
- A little milk
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Instructions
Preheat the oven to 200 degrees
Put the butter in a pan cook the onions till they are golden brown. Remove and set aside to cool
Skin sausages and put the meat in a large mixing bowl. Mash up the sausage meat with your hands. Add the onions, breadcrumbs, garlic and dhania to the sausage meat. Mix it all up with your hands
Roll out the pastry.
Shape the meat mixture into a long sausage and place it along the long edge of the rolled out pastry leaving some space at the end of the pastry.
Roll the pastry to enclose, cut of the long roll and seal the edge with a fork. Repeat this till all the meat is done. Cut the roll into smaller sized pieces of your choice.
Mix the egg and the milk
Place the rolls on a baking sheet seam side down. Brush with the egg misture.
Bake for 20-25minutes until golden and slightly puffy. Serve warm. HAPPY EATING!!!
https://www.themothershipvillage.com/easy-sausage-rolls/SPEEDY AS…… PEPPERED FISH
I’ve been lazy of late.
Ok maybe not lazy but pressed for time so maybe the word is busy.
I don’t seem to have time to do ANYTHING outside of my work! And I don’t seem to do enough of my work either. Don’t know what happened to the 24 hours in a day coz to me it feels more like 8hrs.
Oooh and did I mentioned? I’m not getting enough sleep so beats me where my time is going.
Anyway last week after my not so productive day I felt like a speedy “healthy” meal so I opted for fish and mango cucumber salad. Food was ready in about 15minutes start to end, how happy was I? So this is a recipe for one of those days when u wish u had a cook in your house but because life is just sooo unfair you have to fix meals yourself and you can’s stay hungry you make this. Happy Cooking!!
Ingredients
- 2 good size fish fillets or one large cut into two
- ½ teaspoon cayenne pepper
- ½ teaspoon black pepper
- ¼ teaspoon garlic powder
- ¼ teaspoon coriander powder
- salt to taste
- ½- ¾ cup of bread crumbs
- About 3 tablespoons of all purpose flour
- 3 tbsps of oil for frying
Instructions
Break the egg into a bowl; add the peppers, garlic and coriander powder and salt. Beat till well combined. Set aside
Place the Fish in the flour and coat well. Remove it from flour
Place floured fish into the egg mixture and coat well.
Put immediately into the bread crumbs and coat well.
Put about 3 tablespoons of oil into a pan. Once hot place the fish
Cook until it browns, about 4-5 minutes, then flip and cook other side. Try and flip it only once.
I had this with the Mango and Cucumber Salad from a previous post (click on link to view post. HAPPY EATING!!
https://www.themothershipvillage.com/speedy-as-peppered-fish/
Kenyan Masala Chips
When we were in high school my friends and I discovered Burger Hut in Westlands that by far has the best Masala chips and cheese burgers I have ever tasted. In fact I think I should do a story on them soon 🙂 I was taught how to make masala chips a few years back by a cook who worked for my mum. I tried it a couple of times but I was never really happy with the results. I got this recipe last week on Fauzia’s Kitchen Fun and I decided to try it out the same day. I added garam masala which was not in the original recipe because most people say to add this and trust me it was delish, soo delish that I made them twice again on the weekend. I honestly LOVED it, it is not burger huts masala chips but it can compete and I am sure it would win with some people. I hope you will enjoy it as much as I did. HAPPY COOKING!!
Ingredients
- 8 large potatoes, peeled and sliced into “chips”
- oil for frying
- 2 tablespoons butter/margarine
- 1 tablespoon Spanish paprika
- 1 tablespoon cayenne pepper ( or red chilli powder) – you can use more or less depending on preference
- 1 teaspoon of garlic paste
- 2 tablespoon tomato paste
- 2 tablespoon tomato sauce
- 1 teaspoon turmeric
- 1 tablespoon garam masala
- small bunch of coriander
- salt to taste
- some water (optional)
- lemon (I did not use this because I had none)
Instructions
Heat the oil in a pan and when hot put in the potatoes and cook till they are soft, remove from the oil, drain and let cool for about 5 mins
Reheat the oil and put back the chips to cook through. This makes them crispier (works with any food your deep frying)
As the chips are cooking for the second time place the butter/margarine into a larger pan and melt it. Once it has melt switch off the heat.
Add all the other ingredients (except from the water and coriander) into the melted butter/margarine and mix well.
Turn on the heat and cook till the sauce thickens
You can add the water if you like your chips saucy if not do not add the water.
Once the chips are cooked place in a kitchen towel to drain excess oil then toss them into the sauce and mix until well combined.
Turn off the heat, squeeze in the lemon and add the coriander
Serve when hot. HAPPY EATING!
https://www.themothershipvillage.com/kenyan-masala-chips/
