Baking has long been a part of our diet. It is prepared from different types of dough and fillings - everyone will choose a dish to their liking. Especially popular are baked goods with sausages, which are considered to be a budget substitute for meat.
From the history
Sausages are loved by both children and adults. In addition to their taste, they are undoubtedly attracted by the speed of their preparation. Just a few minutes - and the dish is ready! It is perfect for a snack at any time of the day. If you add a side dish, vegetable salad, then you get a full breakfast or dinner.
For the first time this type of sausage appeared about 300 years ago. The butcher Johann Laner, who lived in Austria or Germany, once decided to give the product this very form, although the content was known long before him. A cheap product, obtained from a mixture of minced meat of two types, delighted the population. In the Soviet Union, sausages appeared in 1936. Two dozen new meat processing plants have started to produce this product. It is worth noting the highest quality of sausages of the Soviet era, when the meat content reached 50 percent. Today, you can hardly find such an indicator. And the price of this product sometimes exceeds the cost of chicken or beef. But the store shelves are full of the abundance of the proposed names, the modern sausage industry produces dozens of types of sausages.
Main ingredients for baking
Sausages are ubiquitous. In America, this product reached the peak of its popularity, when one day a culinary specialist guessed to combine it with a bun - it turned out a hot dog. This successful combination is widely used in cooking. For many housewives, baked goods with sausages are a source of pride and a favorite dish.
Any dough is suitable for baking. It can be purchased at the store or prepared at home. Sausages will also work with different names, as long as they are fresh and of good quality. It is more convenient to prepare baked goods with sausages in cellophane packaging, since they can be easily removed from both cold and hot sausages. Before baking, you do not need to boil them, because sausages are a ready-to-eat product. In the oven, they will reveal all their taste, and after secondary heat treatment, the product may lose its aroma and shape.
Puff pastry sausage
The favorite dish of many is quick and easy to prepare. Translated from German, its name means "sausage in a nightgown", the British call it "a pig in a blanket." The recipe for the dish came to the USSR from Europe thanks to the famous figure Anastas Mikoyan. It turns out delicious, both from puff pastry and from yeast dough.
You can buy puff pastry for baking at the store or make your own. The taste is the same in both cases, but the first option will save time. The dough is sold frozen, therefore, first of all, it must be defrosted. It is better to do this not in a microwave oven, but at room temperature. After about an hour, the dough is ready for use. The shape of the puffs can be very diverse, it all depends on your imagination. Most often, the finished layers are rolled out a little and cut into strips, smooth edges do not play a role here. One 400-500 gram portion will make 12 baked sausages. For this mouth-watering dish, products with the name "dairy" are best suited.
The step-by-step recipe is as follows. After the dough is cut and the sausages are peeled from the cellophane film, each of them must be wrapped in a spiral with a dough strip. It must be wrapped with an overlap. You can use a little trick by cutting a sausage and adding some grated hard cheese to the resulting pocket. When heated, it will melt and transform a classic dish into an original treat. For the specified amount of dough, you will need 60-70 grams of cheese. Put the prepared semi-finished products on a baking sheet, previously covered with baking paper. It can be greased with vegetable oil. Bake in a preheated oven at 200 degrees. As a rule, this process takes little time, after 25-30 minutes you will get aromatic, lush baked goods. Most housewives, in order to decorate the appearance, pre-grease the surface of the product with a beaten egg, and only after that they are sent to the oven. This procedure will add a ruddy color and a glossy finish to the baked goods.
In addition to the described simple option, you can prepare puff products of various shapes. To prepare original envelopes, the defrosted product must be cut into squares slightly larger than the length of the sausage. On the left side of the mold, make several horizontal notches with a sharp knife. Wrap the sausage by bending the square in half and send to the oven.
Puff pastry baked goods in the shape of flowers look very original. To do this, cut the dough into squares, put the sausage inside and fasten the edges tightly. Then, with a sharp knife on one of the sides of the resulting rectangle, make about 10 cuts and form a circle. Brush with an egg and send to the oven. When baked, an ordinary dish turns into a real culinary masterpiece.
Mushroom pies
If time allows and you want to make a special dough dish at home, use the following step-by-step recommendations. The main feature of this recipe is the complex filling. You will need 1 onion and 200-300 grams of mushrooms. In addition, you will need: ketchup, mayonnaise, an egg, vegetable oil for frying, sesame seeds, salt and pepper to taste. To prepare the filling, finely chop the mushrooms and onions, fry in a pan with the addition of oil, salt and pepper. Spread the right side of the dough square with mayonnaise and ketchup sauce in equal amounts. Put the cooled mushroom filling and sausage on top. Wrap the squares and place in the oven. Remember to brush the surface with a beaten egg and sprinkle with sesame seeds to give the baked goods a special look. The upper part of the dough with incisions in the finished form looks original.
In addition to mushrooms, various vegetables are used for the filling, for example, bell peppers. A slice of ham or pickled cucumber will add a piquant taste to the dish, it all depends on the desires of the hostess and her taste preferences. The main meat component remains unchanged.
Yeast dough
If you prefer yeast dough, you can also buy it over the counter or make it at home. For 12 sausages, take the following proportions: wheat flour - 500 grams, butter - 50 grams, 1 egg, milk - 250 ml, 1 tbsp. a spoonful of sugar, yeast - 10 grams, a pinch of salt. Dough preparation should be started with a dough consisting of warm milk, yeast and sugar. Leave the resulting mixture for 15 minutes. After the foam appears, add the egg and salt, then the butter and the remaining milk. Mix thoroughly and add flour. All the ingredients make an elastic dough that does not stick to your hands. After 40-50 minutes, it will double in volume. It should be rolled out, divided into strips and wrapped around sausages. After smearing with an egg, send the semi-finished products to the oven. The baking time, like puff pastry, is half an hour, but at a lower temperature - 180 degrees.
Flower cake
If there was no meat in the house, but you certainly want to please the guests with an interesting pie, sausages are suitable for this purpose. A yeast dough pie is obtained in the shape of a flower, each petal is successfully torn off, it is convenient to eat it. The process of creating this dish is not too fast, but if all the step-by-step recommendations are followed correctly, the result will exceed expectations. To make the cake rosy and fluffy, you need to prepare a tender and soft dough according to the specified recipe. Then divide it into 10-12 pieces, about the size of a chicken egg. Roll out, add a half of a sausage inside each part and shape into patties - "petals" of a flower. When the cake is formed, it is appropriate to brush it with a beaten egg and sprinkle with sesame seeds. Having tried such a dish once, relatives and friends will certainly ask you to make it more than once.
Baking with sausages is tasty and high-calorie. It works well with tea or broth. It is served to the table while it is still hot, the taste will remain the next day. The value of homemade cakes is that when creating them, the hostess applies culinary skills and puts a piece of her soul. That is why the dishes come out unusually mouth-watering.
