Buttermilk Biscuit Sausage Rolls
These buttermilk biscuit sausage rolls amount to a perfect Complete Comfort Foods breakfast or brunch.
Ingredients
For the Buttermilk Biscuits:
- 1-½ cups all-purpose flour
- 2 tsp. baking powder
- ¼ cup salted butter, cold, cut in small cubes
- ¾ cup buttermilk or add a splash of lemon juice to regular milk
For the Egg Wash:
- 1 egg
- 2 tbsp. water
Instructions
- Pre-heat oven to 375°F.
- In a food processor, blend together the flour and baking powder; pulse in the cold butter; do not over incorporate the butter into the flour; similar to making a flaky pastry, small pieces of butter should be visible in the flour.
- Transfer this mixture from the food processor into a large mixing bowl and make a well in the center.
- Pour in the buttermilk; working very quickly with a wooden spoon, fold the dry mixture through the buttermilk, only until the flour disappears, then stop immediately.
- Drop the sticky dough onto a well floured counter top or bread board.
- Sprinkle the top of the dough with additional flour; cover your hands with flour to handle the dough.
- Roll the dough out into a long rectangle, about the width of your sausages, and only about 1/2-inch thick or slightly less; cut into 4 equal pieces.
- Remove the sausages from their casings.
- Using a small bowl or cup, make an egg wash by whisking together the egg and water.
- Place one portion of the sausage at one end of one of the biscuit pastry squares.
- Brush the pastry with the egg wash on the opposite edge of the dough from the sausage.
- Roll the sausage in the pastry, pinching the edges of the dough together where they overlap.
- Place the sausage rolls, seam side down, on a parchment paper lined baking sheet (consider using aluminum baking sheets because they tolerate the higher oven temperature without burning the bottom of the sausage rolls).
- Brush the tops of the sausage rolls with egg wash.
- Place in the pre-heated oven and bake for about 25 to 30 minutes or until the tops of the sausage rolls are evenly golden brown.
- Use a meat thermometer to ensure that the sausage reaches about 175°F to 180°F.
- Remove from the oven and allow the sausage rolls to rest for 10 minutes before serving.