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  Sneaky sausage rolls in All Blog Posts, Food
  29 Sep 2010

  OK. We know we are not in the business of food blogging. But if you know either of us, you know we love good food and cooking for our friends and family. Having said that, not all members of our respective families are good eaters. 

  Recently Emma shared a sneaky sausage roll recipe with me and as I write this the results are being devoured by my children. If you also have beautiful children who have never met a vegetable they like, give this a try. And please don't let the children thing put you off, they are delicious for adults too (as I wipe pastry crumbs from my lips).

  Obviously this has not been tested in the Women''s Weekly kitchen but we do hope it works for you.

  Ingredients
  Splash of olive oil
  1/2 onion, finely diced
  Clove of garlic, chopped or crushed
  1 or 2 carrots, peeled and finely grated (the finer the better - much sneakier)
  1 apple, peeled and finely grated
  (Note - you can add any kind of vegetable you think would work, celery, zucchini, capsicum...just grate it finely. The apple adds a lovely natural sweetness so we recommend you keep this in.)
  500g beef mince
  2 eggs
  Salt and pepper to taste
  2 sheets of shop bought puff pastry (yes, yes, we know. We'd never win MasterChef or Come Dine with Me)

  Heat oven (200C for fan forced ovens, 220C otherwise)
  On a medium heat, brown onion in a little olive oil
  Add grated carrot, apple and chopped garlic and brown with onion
  While this is browing, in a mixing bowl mix 1 beaten egg into the beef mince
  Add the onion, carrot and apple mixture into beef and mix together
  Cut defrosted puff pastry into halves length ways and lay a long sausage shape of the mixture along one edge of each piece of pastry
  Beat 2nd egg in a small bowl and the paint a strip down the other side of each pastry sheet. This will act as the glue to seal the sausage rolls
  Roll the pastry and meat into a sausage roll shape and cut each roll into desired length
  Put rolls onto a baking try and paint each piece with the egg wash to get that lovely golden brown finish on the pastry
  Bake in oven for 20 minutes

  We hope you enjoy them. And we can't promise that this will be the last food entry in our blog.

  Emma and Zanny