Vegetarian Sausage Rolls

In the early 1990's, I took a few vegetarian cooking classes through Sanitarium and was delighted to find this vegetarian version of a favourite food. I have made this recipe a number of times over the years, because it is an easy choice when vegetarian friends are visiting and the rolls taste just like the real thing bought from a bakery.

Being a Thermomix fan, of course I converted Sanitarium’s Country Cottage Rolls recipe from their 1994 recipe brochure, and with a few minor modifications, the recipe is available on their webpage below.

Ingredients

• 3 eggs
• ½ cup pecans
• 1 large onion, chopped
• 1 tablespoon soy sauce
• 1 cup low-fat cottage cheese
• 1 slice bread broken into bite-size pieces and dried in the oven on the lowest setting – should supply about ½ cup dry breadcrumbs
• 1 cup quick cooking or rolled oats
• 3 sheets reduced-fat canola puff pastry
• 1 tablespoon milk for glazing
• 2 tablespoons sesame seeds (optional)

Method

1 Process bread pieces, oats and pecans on speed 6 for 10 seconds. Set aside in a bowl.

2 Process eggs, onion, soy sauce and cottage cheese on speed 6 for 10 seconds. Add to bowl with dry ingredients and mix.

3 Cut each pastry sheet in half and spoon mixture along one edge. Brush other edge with soymilk. Roll to enclose filling with pastry and repeat with remaining pastry sheets. 

4 Cut each log into 6 even lengths. Brush with milk and sprinkle with sesame seeds. Bake in a hot oven, 200°C, for 40 minutes or until crisp and golden.

Sanitarium's Country Cottage Rolls recipe:-

http://www.sanitarium.com.au/recipes/country-cottage-rolls

These rolls go very nicely with a Thermomix version of Heinz's tomato sauce which can be found here:-
http://www.forumthermomix.com/index.php?topic=10013.0