Beards, hats, cold brew coffee, braces, man buns, green smoothies and scarves. If you’ve begun to conjure up images of well-groomed hipster types with intriguing arm tatts, waxed to a curl moustaches and retro print head scarves well I’ve done my job, because I’m talking about hipsters and sausage rolls today.
So would a hipster approve of these particular sausage rolls?
Well they have a secret ingredient within them, and that secret ingredient is hipster certified….it’s kale. And as we all know hipsters eat kale for breakfast, lunch and dinner right? (As luck would have it these sausage rolls can be eaten at any meal time.)
Hipster Certified Sausage Rolls
one bunch of curly kale (stripped from the stalk and roughly chopped)
2 small eggplants, diced
500g of organic beef mince
1 cup of sourdough bread crumbs
1 free range egg
1 knob of butter
a good slurp of olive oil
1 TSP cumin
salt and pepper to taste
puff pastry
In a pot add curly kale and diced eggplant. Add a good slurp of olive oil, cumin and butter, wilting the vegetables down. Once this is done, take them off the heat and with a hand held mixer, blitz them (or blender.) In a bowl add remaining ingredients and add cooled kale and eggplant.
If you are making your own puff pastry, line that goodness down and add your mixture in rows. If you are using the frozen stuff (because life is full and doesn’t involve making puff pastry, then thaw it out and have an extra cup of coffee in the time you’ve just saved -single origin fair trade cold brew coffee of course.
Spoon the mixture on, fold ’em up, cut them and bake on a tray at 200C for approximately 25 minutes. They should look golden, and be tantalising the taste buds.
Eat with enthusiasm, and some delicious farmers market bought chutney.
cityhippyfarmgirl 
This is funny Brydie…spoken like a true hipster! Your photos look so tempting and delicious as always.
Do you know what else is funny? I made sausage rolls involving kale for our Flour and Fire Day on Sunday. Chickpea and kale sausage rolls in fact with chickpeas that I grew in my garden last summer and home grown kale. Not that I am bragging, but I was quietly happy with this little achievement! I hope you are having a lovely week x
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Oh brag away Jane. That’s rather excellent I say, to grow your own chickpeas and put them in sausage rolls…so good!
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Definitely giving these a go Brydie. I sneak lentils and carrot into mine usually, but love your idea of a burst of greenery. They look like they’d be good cold in lunchboxes too… getting prepared for back-to-school next week. Yikes!
Both my boys are fascinated with hipster culture. We were served waffles recently with disposable timber forks. My eldest said at the top of his voice “Look mum, hipster cutlery”.
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Hipster culture really is intriguing isn’t it. A lot of good things attached to it (and I will ignore the annoying bits.) hipster cutlery 😄 hooray for that!
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Great idea to add kale to sausage rolls Brydie! I think you’ve nailed it. I have added grated carrot before too. Enjoy xo
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Kale is a good one to be snuck in all kinds of places…except for maybe weetbix?
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These sound delicious! My crew wouldn’t eat them because they are anti hipster but I’d hook in for sure!
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Sneak it in Reannon. I told my crew AFTER they demolished a tray…sneaky mama.
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kale in sausage rolls sounds interesting – I’d love to see if I could sneak it in for my household – and if they refused them I would happily eat them all
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If these things need to be done Johanna, well then that’s what needs to be done!
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Definitely hipster approved with the addition of kale (and the sourdough breadcrumbs). Might run a batch of them past my Stevie-boy and see if they can’t curl his moustache ;). Cheers for the share Ms Cityhippyfarmgirl. You dun good 🙂
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Oh I hope they do, I think Steve would like quite dapper with a moustache curl.
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And a tat…
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Oh my I can smell these from here! Yumm. I need a GF version – but then I could just munch on the inners with great joy. I love the ‘Hipser’ criteria too – is it comulsary to folow the Sausage rolls with a skinny latte? or a Cider or boutique beer?
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Tamara I did a version of these as meat balls as well just using the mixture. Topped them on a roast pumpkin chickpea salad…verdict? Yes! Do it lady 🙂
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I could eat a few hipster sausage rolls (especially in this weather). I do love the image of them in the wooden box. Your ingredients are wonderful xx
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It’s going to get cold this weekend CL isn’t it. Now what to bake, what to bake?
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Hehe hipsters would definitely approve! And I think hipsters would love the way you served them in a wooden box too! 😀
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naturally 🙂
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Ha! Love your hipster sausage rolls :). In fact, I thought you were talking about my heavily bearded hipster brother…
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Everyone should have a hipster brother Sara, they make the family look much cooler, mine certainly does!
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He sure does 🙂
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I thought I’d lost my hipster cred since my heydays were in the ’90s but my kale usage states otherwise. Yes! Oh I’ve never used eggplant in a sausage rolls before and with cumin, perfect match. My next bake for sure! I made a big fresh batch with organic mince and vegies and whatever herbs I could pinch from my winter frostbit garden and froze them for the holidays to take out and bake at a whims notice.
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Nope Zena, you still got it, ‘kale cred’.
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Kale in a snag roll? Unheard of, but I want in on that. 🙂
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Brydie, I made these for lunch boxes this week and Mr M, who doesn’t like either kale or eggplant, loved them! Thank you! One clarification – are the breadcrumbs dry or fresh?
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Excellent Beck. Thanks for letting me know. Hipster approved along with husband and kid approved 🙂 They are good for hiding stuff in!
As for the bread crumbs, I used fresh but I reckon either would be absolutely fine.
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I used my own dried sourdough crumbs, and didn’t squeeze the kale at all so the moisture could be absorbed by the crumbs, but would probably reduce the amount a little if using dried again next time as it obviously ended up being a bit more when reconstituted…
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