Vegan Sausage Rolls

Our Vegan Sausage Rolls are a delicious treat that combines a hearty mushroom and nuts filling rolled in golden, flaky puff pastry.

Prepare the mushroom stock by breaking the dried porcini mushrooms into small pieces and soaking them in 200 ml of boiling water.
In a food processor, add the nuts and ground them by pulsing until they have the desired consistency and set aside. If you are making homemade bread crumbs, add the bread into the food processor and pulse until you have fine bread crumbs.
Preheat the oven to 200C/400F.
Heat some olive oil in a frying pan. Finely chop onion and garlic and add to the pan. Fry until translucent and add roughly chopped mushrooms and finely chopped rosemary. Sauté for a couple of minutes. Turn the heat off.
Add the grounded nuts and bread crumbs and mix together.
Pour the soy sauce and yeast extract. Add the dried mushrooms stock, combine all the ingredients until a dough is formed, and set aside to cool.
Let the mixture cool before shaping it.

Roll the puff pastry and cut it in half, length-wise. You will have two pieces of pastry, to make two different rows of sausage rolls.
Place half of the mixture on one of the puff pastry pieces, and shape the filling into a long and thin row. Repeat for the other piece with the rest of the filling mixture.
Fold one side of the pastry over the other, covering the filling, and pinch to close. Make sure you cut any excess pastry. To pinch the pastry, we like using a fork. This way, you make sure it doesn't open while baking, and it gives the sausage rolls a nice pattern.
Cut the sausage rolls into 4-5-inch long pieces. That should be around 5-6 sausage rolls per row.
Place the cut sausage rolls on a baking tray prepared with baking paper to prevent them from sticking.
Using a baking brush, add some milk and maple syrup mixture, which replaces the egg normally used. Score a few lines per roll, for venting. Then sprinkle some sesame seeds on top.

Bake them in a preheated oven (200C or 400F) for about 30 minutes or until flaky and golden.