Gary Rhodes Suet Cheesey rolls

recovering_spendaholic

I was watching TV this afternoon and Gary Rhodes was on and he made these vegetarian sausage roll alternatives and they looked so lovely I thought I would have a go at making them for tea and they were fantastic. You need 8oz self raising flour, 4oz vegetarian (or ordinary) suet (I had the Atora light), salt and a pinch of baking powder - you just mix it all up together and then add enough water to make a pastry. You roll it out fairly thin and top with 5oz of grated cheese (I used up bits I had left of Red Leicester and Cheddar) and a chopped onion - I didn't have an onion so I sprinkled on some dried chives and a sprinkling of mustard powder and black pepper. Then you roll it up like a swiss roll into a long sausage and cut it into 2inch lengths, egg wash it and bake at 200 for 20 minutes. They smelt, looked and tasted lovely and were demolished for tea by very fussy DD's. The suet crust goes all puffy and crispy.

borntoshop

yum, I am hungry now, that sounds lovely. I will have a go myself.

Noozan

I've just seen this in UKTV food and was a bit a bit put off by the amount of cheese that seemed to leak out of his cheese rolls.

recovering_spendaholic

I put mine closer together than he did and there wasn't as much leakage, and when they had settled after coming out the cheese went all crispy and tasted nice, but then I love cheese....

dlb

Yummy they sound great, i am going to try these today, thank you!!

miemie

just made this for lunch, cooked it as one long sausase instead of cutting in up so all the cheese stayed inside and was all sqidgy,so yummy had it with baked beans, my two little ones wolfed it down, thanks for the recipe i can see this being a winter favourite

dlb

Right iv prepared it!! Going to give it the kids for tea tonight with HM chips and beans.
Ill let you know what they think!! And if they like it i am going to make another for Dh for when he gets in from work tonight!!
Thanks

katiekoo_2

That sounds wonderful!

We had our first dumplings of the year a few days ago, I had forgotten how easy and more-ish they are.:)

Rachie_B

i make one long one ( or smaller indivual sized ones but not cut into small pieces) with various fillings in too as part of a main meal

a pizza sort of one with tomato / ham / sweetcorn / mushroom etc
spinach and feta
beef stew !
creamy chicken / chicken curry etc
bacon & onion
sausagement mixed with stuffing
roasted med veg,with feta and pesto

just experiment

saving-grace

Suet AND cheese! Sounds very artery clogging - but very tasty! I'm going to try it.

recovering_spendaholic

saving-grace wrote:

Suet AND cheese! Sounds very artery clogging - but very tasty! I'm going to try it.

I have to say that it makes loads from a fairly modest amount - the 4oz suet made enough rolls for easily 8 people I am sure. I have loads left in my fridge, which I am just debating whether or not to freeze as they aren't nice cold but I'm sure they would defrost and re-heat alright.