Much better than those Quorn ones! (Linda McCartney Sausage Rolls)

Member Name: InsaneStar

Product:	Linda McCartney Sausage Rolls
Date:	18/05/09 (40 review reads)
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Advantages: Suitable for vegetarians and vegans, easy to cook and they taste fantastic.

Disadvantages: Not suitable for gluten allergy sufferers.

I think these sausage rolls are simply wonderful! They're suitable for vegetarians and vegans (yay!) and the allergy advice says: Contains wheat, gluten and sulphur dioxide.

They come in a cardboard box (recyclable or compostable) and are found in the freezer section of your supermarket. I buy mine in Sainsbury's where they cost £1.45 for a box of six sausage rolls.

It's recommended that you always cook them from frozen but I've let mine thaw a bit before and the quality hasn't been affected. You bake them in the oven for about 15-20 minutes on 220ºC/Gas Mark 7. You can glaze them with egg, cow's milk, soya milk or rice milk before cooking if you want them to brown a lot but they cook just as well without it. They don't have a strong smell while cooking.

You have to place them with the folded side facing downwards to stop them opening up but sometimes they still manage to. They don't stick to the pans very much except at the ends where the sausage 'meat' sticks out a bit.

Once they've been cooked you can let them cool and eat them cold later but they're not as nice like this.

The pastry is lovely and flaky, which can mean they get a bit messy if you're not eating them over a plate (my keyboard still has pastry crumbs in it!). The pastry can taste a little salty so you won't need to put any extra salt on them.

The sausage bit inside can sometimes be a bit soggy (I guess it would depend on how well you've cooked them, I do prefer mine slightly underdone) but it still tastes great. I've not had a meat sausage roll in so long I'm afraid I can't compare them but my meat-eating friends have tried them and enjoyed them.

Overall, they make a fantastic meal with potatoes, veg etc. but they're not so good for picnics because of the flakiness of the pastry.

Ingredients:
Rehydrated textured wheat protein, wheat flour, water, vegetable oil (contains salt, emulsifier: mono and di-glycerides of fatty acids), onion, natural flavouring, pea and wheat protein, stabiliser: methylcellulose, salt.

Textured wheat protein contains: wheat starch, sodium metabisulphite.

Nutritional information:
(per sausage roll)
Energy - 668.2kj/159.5kcal
Protein - 7.5g
Carbohydrate - 14.8g
(of which sugars - 1.8g)
Fat - 7.8g
(of which saturates - 3.1g)
Fibre - 0.9g
Salt - 0.7
(of which sodium - 0.3g)

Summary: I've not found a better veggie sausage roll than these, I love 'em!