Description
Succulent honey mustard chicken sausage rolls deliver a gourmet twist on classic party snacks. Golden pastry and savory filling create irresistible bites you’ll want to share with friends and family.
Ingredients
Scale
- 1 lb (500g) ground chicken
- 2 tbsps Dijon mustard
- 1 tbsp honey
- 2 sheets frozen puff pastry, thawed
- ½ cup breadcrumbs
- 1 egg, lightly beaten
- 1 small onion, finely chopped
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- ½ tsp paprika
- ½ tsp salt
- ¼ tsp black pepper
- Sesame seeds or poppy seeds
Instructions
- Oven Preparation: Preheat the oven to 400F (200C) and line a baking sheet with parchment paper, ensuring an ideal cooking surface for golden, crispy pastry.
- Filling Creation: In a large mixing bowl, amalgamate ground chicken with breadcrumbs, onion, garlic, Dijon mustard, honey, paprika, salt, and pepper, blending until the mixture achieves a uniform consistency and robust flavor profile.
- Pastry Preparation: Unfurl the puff pastry on a flour-dusted workspace, strategically dividing each sheet into two elongated, symmetrical rectangles to maximize culinary potential.
- Sausage Formation: Craft four meticulously shaped chicken logs, positioning each precisely along the pastry rectangles’ central axis with surgical accuracy.
- Pastry Encasement: Execute a delicate rolling technique, folding one pastry edge over the filling and gently rotating to create a hermetic seal, using fingertips to compress the seam and lock in flavors.
- Pre-Baking Arrangement: Transpose the rolled logs onto the prepared baking sheet, orienting them seam-side down with calculated spacing to promote even cooking and aesthetic presentation.
- Aesthetic Finishing: Apply a lustrous egg wash to the pastry surface, optionally adorning with sesame or poppy seeds to elevate both visual appeal and textural complexity.
- Thermal Transformation: Bake in the preheated oven for 20-25 minutes, vigilantly monitoring until the pastry achieves a burnished golden hue and the chicken filling reaches complete thermal doneness.
- Serving Preparation: Allow the sausage rolls a brief cooling interlude, then slice into bite-sized segments, creating an elegant and convenient serving format perfect for gatherings or casual dining.
Notes
- Meat Moisture Management: Prevent dry chicken by avoiding overmixing and using fresh ground chicken with slightly higher fat content for juicier rolls.
- Pastry Precision Technique: Keep puff pastry cold until use and work quickly to maintain its flaky texture, preventing tough or dense layers.
- Filling Temperature Control: Let chicken mixture chill in refrigerator for 15-30 minutes before forming logs to help maintain structural integrity and enhance flavor melding.
- Dietary Adaptation Strategy: Swap puff pastry with gluten-free alternatives like almond flour pastry for celiac-friendly version, and use ground turkey as chicken substitute if preferred.
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 25 minutes
- Category: Lunch, Appetizer, Snacks
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 5
- Calories: 360
- Sugar: 3 g
- Sodium: 550 mg
- Fat: 20 g
- Saturated Fat: 5 g
- Unsaturated Fat: 15 g
- Trans Fat: 0 g
- Carbohydrates: 25 g
- Fiber: 1 g
- Protein: 17 g
- Cholesterol: 70 mg