Turducken Sausage Rolls
An Original Recipe by Lorraine Elliott
Recipe Overview
Preparation time: 30 minutes plus 30 minutes freezing
Cooking time: 10 minutes plus 32 minutes per tray
Ingredients Needed
- Oil for frying
- 2 brown or white onion, peeled and finely diced
- 2 cloves garlic, peeled and finely diced
- 400g/14ozs chicken mince
- 400g/14ozs turkey mince
- 400g/14oz duck confit (500g bone in duck legs)*
- 100g/3.5ozs pistachios, toasted
- 1/3 cup/100g/3.5ozs cranberry sauce
- 1/2 cup/80g/2.8ozs dried cranberries
- 1 cup/85g/3ozs panko breadcrumbs
- 1 egg, beaten
- 2-3 teaspoons salt
- 1 teaspoon pepper
- 5 sheets butter puff pastry, thawed in the fridge
- 1 egg yolk mixed with 1 teaspoon water for egg wash
- BBQ sauce to serve
*Buyer's note: duck confit comes in 500g/1.1lbs packets with 2 marylands per pack. Once you strip the meat and skin off, you'll end up with 400g/14ozs of meat.
Step-By-Step Cooking Instructions
Step 1: Soak Cranberries & Roast Pistachios
First soak the cranberries in hot water from a kettle (10 minutes will do). Then roast the pistachios. Spread them out on a baking tray and roast for 8 minutes at 180C/350F.
Step 2: Shred Duck Confit
Remove the meat from the duck confit and place the meat in a food processor to shred.
Step 3: Make Turducken Filling
Fry the onion until softened and then add the garlic and fry for 1 minute. In a large bowl add the onions, garlic, chicken mince, turkey mince, shredded duck confit, roasted pistachios, cranberry sauce, well drained cranberries, panko breadcrumbs and egg. I find it easiest to mix it up using my hands, use latex gloves if you like. Season with salt and pepper. I always cook a bit in a frying pan to check it for flavour and seasoning. Place in a large piping bag (not all of it will fit, keep the rest in the fridge).
Step 4: Shape, Fill & Freeze Pastry
Take one sheet of pastry out of the fridge at a time. Pipe three logs of meat down one side of the pastry and then pipe one on top (4 logs in total). On the far side brush with egg wash and roll it up tightly from the other end. Wrap up and shape into a log and pipe some extra filling in each open end. Place in the freezer for 30 minutes.
Step 5: Bake and Serve
Preheat oven to 200C/400F fan forced. Cut each log into six pieces and place on a tray. Bake for 30-32 minutes. Serve with barbecue sauce.