The best Australia Day sausage roll recipes (2024)

FAQs

What do Australians call sausage rolls? ›

Some call it a sausage sandwich, some call it a sausage sizzle (which to me is the event, eg BBQ, fund raiser) some even call it a sausage roll or hot dog.

In a nutshell, this is everything a good sausage roll should be - good-quality pork mince, fennel seeds, butter puff pastry and a spicy chilli jam for serving.

There's no traditional sauce usually paired with sausage rolls in the UK, but recipes online recommend everything from mustard dips to HP brown sauce, a tangy sauce made with malt vinegar, tomatoes, dates, tamarind extract, and spices.

Meat, fat and fillers

''A traditional sausage is meat, fat and seasoning in a natural casing which is made from intestines,'' says Romeo Baudouin, head chef at Victor Churchill butchers in Woollahra, Sydney.

The closest I've found in The States is a Hot Dog type emulsified sausage wrapped in Croissant Pastry and baked. It's generally made from canned dough. And it's called…. Pigs In A Blanket.

A sausage. Also snagger. In Australia and elsewhere snag has a number of meanings, including 'a submerged tree stump', 'an unexpected drawback', and more recently as an acronym for sensitive new age guy'. But in Australia a snag is also one of several words for 'sausage' (others include snarler and snork).

If you're hungry, these might come in handy: snag means sausage, barbie means barbeque, and sanga means sandwich. Used in a sentence: Throw a snag on the barbie, I want a sausage sanga!

Wrapping meat in pastry dates back to the Ancient Greeks and Romans, but the modern sausage roll is thought to have originated in 19th Century France. Sausage rolls grew in popularity in London in the early 1800s as a cheap street food, and rapidly became a quintessentially British snack.

Pork and Maple sausages, which contain maple syrup which sweetens the taste. Chicken and Chive sausages, which use chicken meat and the herb chives. Honey Lamb and Rosemary sausages, which include lamb, Australian honey and the herb rosemary.

A sausage roll is a savoury dish, popular in current and former Commonwealth nations, consisting of sausage meat wrapped in puff pastry. Although variations are known throughout Europe and in other regions, the sausage roll is most closely associated with British cuisine. Sausage roll.

Why does British sausage taste different? ›

In the British Isles we have eleven native pig breeds, all of which are traiditionally used to produce wonderfully different tasting meat depending on where the breed is from and what it traditionally grazes upon.

In the UK, sausage sandwiches ("sausage sarnie" or "butty" in English slang, or "piece 'n' sausage" in Scottish English) can typically be found in British cafes and roadside food stalls. Although a breakfast favourite, it may be purchased and consumed at any time of the day.

"Bikie" is short for a motorcycle-gang member, "bangers" and "snags" are just two of the several terms for sausage, "ripper" means excellent, "snaffle" refers to quickly grabbing something, "titch" is a tiny amount, "chook" is chicken, and it goes on and on.

In Australia, saveloys are usually a beef-pork blend. In New Zealand, saveloys are usually a lamb-pork-beef blend (which distinguishes them from frankfurters which are a pork-beef blend).

Summer sausage is made of beef, pork, or sometimes venison. Summer sausage is fermented, and can be dried or smoked, and while curing ingredients vary significantly, curing salt is almost always used. Seasonings may include mustard seeds, black pepper, garlic salt, or sugar.

A sausage sizzle (also referred to as 'sausage in bread' or a sausage sandwich) is a grilled or barbecued community event held in Australia and New Zealand.

Sausage rolls are Australia's answer to America's Pigs in a Blanket – but (I'm going to say it!!) SO MUCH BETTER!!! A juicy homemade sausage mixture wrapped in puff pastry. I mean really – do you need any more information than that to know these are wickedly delicious?

Aussies have a plethora of names for sausages and the ways and contexts in which we eat them. Snag is perhaps the most famous slang term for sausages, followed closely by banger. Many of us grab a sausage sanga down at the local hardware store.