Tender flaky vegan rough puff pastry wrapped around Gimme Lean Vegan sausage makes for an awesome lunch, dinner, or snack! So tasty you won't even miss the meat.

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I know this sounds like a weird one for my site but hear me out, Vegan Sausage Rolls are DELICIOUS. I never thought I’d say that let alone the carnivores in this house, but’s true.

vegan Sausage Rolls fresh and hot out of the oven.

Tender flaky vegan rough puff pastry wrapped around Gimme Lean Vegan sausage makes for an awesome lunch, dinner, or snack! So tasty you won’t even miss the meat. I PROMISE!

Flaky layers of Vegan Rough Puff Pastry.

GBBO Vegan Sausage Rolls

This isn’t a normal recipe for me but you know what? If it’s a GBBO recipe then it’s a normal recipe for me!

Quarter Finals Week on The Great British Baking Show

What a wild week! I won’t share spoilers beyond the bakes for the week because I’d hate to spoil it for anyone else. But this week was the Quarter Finals and the theme was Free From Week.

All the bakes had to be free from some ingredients. Those were Dairy-Free, Meat Products Free (Vegan), and Gluten-Free.

The Bakes For Free From Week were:

The Signature Bake: Dairy Free Ice Cream Sandwiches (CRUEL!)
The Technical Bake: Vegan Sausage Rolls
The Showstopper: Gluten Free Celebration Cake

Fresh Sausage Rolls with vegan sausage and vegan rough puff pastry.

We went for the Vegan Sausage Rolls because they felt the most interesting and doable. Vegan Rough Puff Pastry ANYONE?? With flaky layers?? Can it be done?? YES, IT CAN! If you’re looking for more comforting vegetarian food try this Vegetarian Cottage Pie!

How we Changed up the Vegan Sausage Rolls.

So first of all Prue’s Recipe called for Vegan Block. Which I couldn’t find, in fact, our vegan butter selection was sparse, we had one brand. So that’s what we used. It worked fine.

Vegan Block, upon reading about it, is just a brand name for Vegan Butter. Apparently, according to their own website, the BEST replacement for butter for vegans. Anyway, I didn’t have it and couldn’t find it. Earth Balance Butter ‘Sticks’ worked FINE for me.

Gimme lean sausage mix for sausage rolls.

I didn’t feel like fussing with making vegan sausage meat. So I pulled a Lizzie and used store-bought. I feel like if that’s what a baker in the Quarter Finals for the GBBO makes for her Vegan Sister then it works for me.

The sausage I used in the vegan sausage rolls.

I purchased Light Life Gimme Lean Plant-Based Sausage for the filling on these sausage rolls. It was surprisingly tasty! I added some sauteed onions. And some panko bread crumbs to make sure the sausage wasn’t TOO juicy. I didn’t know if it would be oily so I figured the panko would help soak up any juices and keep my Vegan Rough Puff Pastry from having the dreaded soggy bottom.

I also kicked the chutney to the curb. I feel like it was put in to fill time. If you feel like making it the recipe is up on the official GBBO site.

And I didn’t use the dijon mustard on the puff pastry before adding the sausage meat. I didn’t have it and didn’t buy it so I skipped it. You can use it if you like, just brush the pastry where the filling will go with dijon and then add the filling.

What do I need to Make Vegan Sausage Rolls?

Vegan Rough Puff Pastry (recipe is in the card no worries!) made with Earth Balance “butter”
Vegan Sausage (14 ounces or so)
panko bread crumbs or other bread crumbs
1/2 cup chopped onion
1 tsp minced garlic
baking sheets
parchment paper
*dijon mustard *optional
a scale*optional* use it to divide your sausage evenly

Vegan puff pastry on a plate showing its flaky layers.

Vegan Sausage Rolls

4.84 from 6 votes

Tender flaky vegan rough puff pastry wrapped around Gimme Lean Vegan sausage makes for an awesome lunch, dinner, or snack! So tasty you won't even miss the meat.

Cuisine: GBBO Inspired

Prep Time: 40

Cook Time: 30

Additional Time: 1

Total Time: 2 10

Servings: Sausage Rolls

Calories: 373kcal

Author: Laura

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Ingredients

3/4 cup vegan butter divided (8 1/2 Tablespoons should be frozen)
2 1/2 cups All-Purpose Flour
pinch of salt
9 TBSP cold water
14 ounces vegan sausage
2 TBSP panko bread crumbs
1/2 cup chopped onion
1 tsp minced garlic use more if you like!
2 TBSP almond milk
1 tsp agave syrup

Instructions

if you haven't already done it, freeze 8 1/2 TBSP of the vegan butter, it should be very cold when you use it
mix the flour and the salt together
cube up the unfrozen portion of the vegan butter
drop it in the flour mix and work it until it's incorporated in the flour and the mix looks like bread crumbs
add enough of the water for the dough to come together, you may need a little more than called for
once the dough comes together roll it out on a lightly floured counter to roughly 12×6 inches with a short side facing you
grate the frozen butter over the bottom 2/3 of the dough, then fold the top down 1/2 way, then the bottom up 1/2 way, this is called the letter fold[mv_schema_meta name="How to Letter Fold Puff Pastry"]
turn the dough 90˚ and roll it out the same size as before
repeat step 7
then cover the dough tightly and chill for 20 minutes
roll the dough out to 12×6, letter fold it again, rotate, letter fold
rest 20 minutes in the fridge then repeat step 11
once this final roll out is done the dough is ready to use, chill covered tightly until you want to use it
when you're ready to bake the sausage rolls saute the onion lightly for 2-3 minutes over medium heat, add the garlic and saute another 30 seconds then remove from the heat
mix the onions and garlic with the bread crumbs and the sausage until well combined
divide the sausage evenly into 8 pieces, use a scale if you have, form the sausage into cylinders 4 inches long, and chill until ready to use
preheat the oven to 400˚ with convection or 425˚ without
[mv_schema_meta name="roll out the rough puff pastry"] to at least 12×16, trim it up to have flat sides
use a tape measure or ruler, or another flat edge to make 8 4×6 inch rectangles
with the long side facing you cut 3-4 slashes on the right side of the dough rectangles as in the picture, this will be the side you fold over the sausage[mv_schema_meta name="cut 3-4 slashes on the right side of the dough rectangles"]
line a baking sheet with parchment paper put one rectangle on the baking sheet
[mv_schema_meta name="lay one cylinder on the puff pastry dough on the side without slashes"]
fold the slashed side up and over the sausage, use a little water to seal it, and crimp with a fork
repeat with the remaining rectangles
mix the milk and agave together and brush over the sausage rolls as a glaze
bake for 20-30 minutes or until the pastry is puffed, browned, and crispy all over