Well my computer guru at work fixed me all up. What the cable guy couldn't figure out, Steve did in about 2 minutes. So my precious photos are saved and all my files are back and I am breathing a huge sigh of relief. Thanks Steve!
Are you ready for a quick and easy appetizer? I mean really easy? These come together in a flash.
John, Mitch and I sat around Sunday and I cooked up a batch of these bad boys and I’m not ashamed to say that the three of us polished off every last one, and quickly too. What am I talking about?? You read the post title didn’t ya? Sausage bites! Little morsels of sausage nestled into a flaky puff pastry then plunged into a delectable dipping sauce. While the sausage cooks all that yummy sausage juice drips down into the puff pastry and gives it such a fantastic flavor. These taste great just as they are, but then you get to dip them into a tangy apricot mustard dip and it’s pure nirvana in your mouth.
I scrounged through all my cookie cutters for a 1 ¼ inch circle cutter, but I didn’t have one so I used a flower shaped cutter that I had and it worked out perfect. (They looked so cute!) If you don’t have a 1 ¼ inch cutter (besides professional pasty chefs who does?) just use anything you can get your hands on that is roughly an inch round or even a little bigger wouldn’t hurt.
John, Mitch and I sat around Sunday and I cooked up a batch of these bad boys and I’m not ashamed to say that the three of us polished off every last one, and quickly too. What am I talking about?? You read the post title didn’t ya? Sausage bites! Little morsels of sausage nestled into a flaky puff pastry then plunged into a delectable dipping sauce. While the sausage cooks all that yummy sausage juice drips down into the puff pastry and gives it such a fantastic flavor. These taste great just as they are, but then you get to dip them into a tangy apricot mustard dip and it’s pure nirvana in your mouth.
I scrounged through all my cookie cutters for a 1 ¼ inch circle cutter, but I didn’t have one so I used a flower shaped cutter that I had and it worked out perfect. (They looked so cute!) If you don’t have a 1 ¼ inch cutter (besides professional pasty chefs who does?) just use anything you can get your hands on that is roughly an inch round or even a little bigger wouldn’t hurt.
I wish I had this recipe at Superbowl time. It would have been a huge hit.
Sausage Bites with Apricot Mustard Dipping Sauce
Printable recipe
1 pound sweet or hot Italian sausage
1 sheet frozen puff pastry, thawed in the fridge
1 egg beaten
Preheat the oven to 400.
Cut the sausage into 36 half inch slices (I cut one link in half and then cut the halves into 3 pieces)
Brush 1 sheet of frozen puff pastry with the beaten egg and cut into 36 - 1 ¼ inch circles. Top each sausage round with a pastry circle.
Skewer each stack with a toothpick or small skewer and place on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Bake 18 – 20 minutes, or until the puff pastry is golden brown.
Apricot Mustard Dip
¼ cup apricot jam (no seeds)
6 tablespoons Dijon mustard
Mix together and start dippin’.
5 comments:
Puff pastry and sausage, I can handle that combination! The dipping sauce sounds like it would be very good too.
Oh man. Those look as good as I thought they would.
Glad everything got resolved!
Wow- what a clever idea!
I ran across your blog by googling Cake Balls. Your are so creative! I hope that you will post more soon. My husband does ALL the cooking at our house. After reading your blog I felt a little inspired and made these sausage bites. De-lish!
Catherine
Madison, MS
Your blog keeps getting better and better! Your older articles are not as good as newer ones you have a lot more creativity and originality now keep it up!
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