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This quick air fryer sausage roll recipe saves time and has deliciously golden flaky pastry

Put down the baking tray, you don’t need an oven to make sausage rolls

By The Good Housekeeping Cookery TeamPublished: 11 April 2025

Good Housekeeping UK

Rich, meaty and gloriously flaky, this easy sausage roll recipe is everything you’d want from a moreish picnic snack. Once you’ve cooked your sausage rolls in the air fryer, you’ll never go back to the oven. Guaranteed perfectly crisp, flaky pastry every time.

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Yields:

8 serving(s)

Prep Time:

15 mins

Cook Time:

20 mins

Total Time:

35 mins

Ingredients

400 g
sausage meat
2 tsp.
dried sage
Pinch chilli flakes
2
garlic cloves, crushed
320 g
sheet ready-rolled puff pastry
1 Tbsp.
Dijon mustard
1
medium egg, beaten

Directions

1. Step 1In a bowl, mix the sausage meat, sage, chilli, garlic and plenty of seasoning. Unroll the sheet of pastry, with a long edge facing towards you, and brush over the mustard.
2. Step 2Shape the sausage meat in a line along the long pastry edge closest to you, leaving a 5cm gap to the edge. Fold the larger side of the pastry over the meat towards you and press the edges to seal, then crimp with a fork. Trim to neaten. Slice into 8 even portions and cut a few slits into the top of each portion. Arrange on a baking tray and chill for 1hr.
3. Step 3Preheat the air fryer to 180°C. Brush the sausage rolls with a little beaten egg. Arrange in the air fryer basket spacing a little apart and cook for 20min, in batches if needed, until deep golden and cooked through.

Cooked and cooled sausage rolls will keep in an airtight container in the fridge for 3 days.

For a twist, you could add some caramelised red onion to your sausage meat mix: Heat 1tsp oil in a medium pan over medium heat and cook 1 red onion for 15min, stirring occasionally, until softened. Add in 1tbsp balsamic vinegar and 1/2tbsp caster sugar and stir until the sugar dissolves. Cook for 4min, or until onions become sticky and caramelised. Empty into a large bowl; cool.

Sprinkle over some nigella or sesame seeds before cooking, if you like.

For more air fryer inspiration, check out our favourite air fryer recipes.

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An experienced and highly skilled team of food writers, stylists and digital content producers, the Good Housekeeping Cookery Team is a close-knit squad of food obsessives. Cookery Editor Emma Franklin is our resident chilli obsessive and barbecue expert, who spends an inordinate amount of time on holidays poking round the local supermarkets seeking out new and exciting foods. Senior Cookery Writer Alice Shields is a former pastry chef and baking fanatic who loves making bread and would have peanut butter with everything if she could. Her favourite carb is pasta, and our vibrant green spaghetti is her weeknight go-to. Lover of all things savoury, Senior Cookery Writer Grace Evans can be found eating crispy corn and nocellara olives at every opportunity, and will take the cheeseboard over dessert any time (though she cannot resist a slice of tres leches cake). With a wealth of professional kitchen know-how, culinary training and years of experience between them, they are all dedicated to ensuring every Good Housekeeping recipe is the best it can be, so you can trust they’ll work (and if they don’t – we’ll have the answer for why*) every time (*90% of the time the answer is: “buy an separate oven thermometer”!).

Recipe byAlice Shields

Senior Cookery Writer

Alice Shields is Senior Cookery Writer for Good Housekeeping. A trained pastry chef, you’ll find her food styling on photo shoots, developing delicious recipes and writing about all things food. She loves to bake and her favourite pudding will always be a chocolate fondant. Originally hailing from Lancashire, she finally achieved her goal of getting a butter pie recipe into the magazine.

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