Vegan Sausage Rolls with Red Kidney Beans & Cheese

Beans and cheese are an awesome combination & so good in these vegan sausage rolls made with kidney beans and cheese with added veg.

We love them warm from the oven, homemade sausage rolls made with flaky, golden puff pastry.

And these vegan sausage rolls made with kidney beans, cheese, and extra veg are just so good.

If I do say so myself!

My husband and son also gave these a big thumbs up and declared them excellent.

They've been requested a few times since I first made them and I don't mind making them as they are so easy to make.

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• 👩🏻‍🍳 Vegan puff pastry
• 💭 Puff pastry and shrinkflation
• 📋 Ingredients
• 🧾 Variations
• 🧀 Which type of vegan cheese?
• 🥄 Which seeds can you top sausage rolls with?
• 🥛 Getting that golden finish on vegan sausage rolls
• 💭 Large sausage rolls or mini sausage rolls?
• 🍱 Serve them cold in lunch boxes
• 👩🏻‍🍳 Storing homemade vegan sausage rolls
• 🌡️ Freezing sausage rolls
• 🌡️ Leftover sausage rolls, freeze them too!
• 👩🏻‍🍳 Related recipes - puff pastry
• ⭐ Save your favourite recipes for free!
• 👩🏻‍🍳 How to make easy vegan sausage rolls with red kidney beans & cheese
• 📖 Recipe
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Avoid any that say 'all butter', as they are not suitable for vegans.

If you're not sure, then check the ingredient list.

💭 Puff pastry and shrinkflation

In the last year or so we have all noticed that pack sizes of all sorts of products are getting smaller and going up in price at the same time.

Puff pastry is one of the products hit by this shrinkflation.

I created this recipe to work with the new standard size of puff pastry (320g/11 1⁄4 oz), but be aware when trying recipes from other websites, as you may find you don't have enough pastry.

I've gone back to old recipes and added a note so people realise they need to pay attention to the weight of pastry and not just pick up a standard pack and think they will have enough.

I'll always keep you right.

📋 Ingredients

Here are the simple ingredients to make these flaky pastry veggie sausage rolls.

• Puff pastry - ready rolled or a block you roll yourself
• Kidney beans - canned beans are good quality and perfect for this recipe
• Red onion - or white/brown onion
• Carrot
• Dried oregano
• Peanut butter - if you have a nut allergy, see below
• Tomato puree - tomato paste
• BBQ sauce - see below for alternatives
• Salt and black pepper
• Olive oil - or other oil to glaze, or you could glaze with your regular plant milk
• Sesame seeds - see below for a list of other seeds you can top vegetarian sausage rolls with

See the full printable recipe card for at the bottom of this page (jump buttons above) for quantities, method and notes.

🧾 Variations

Here are a few variations you can make to these easy vegan sausage rolls.

• Seed butter - instead of peanut butter, or if you can't eat seeds try granola butter made from oats
• Brown sauce - or hot sauce instead of BBQ sauce
• Cannellini beans - or other beans instead of kidney beans
• Chilli flakes - or fresh chilli for a bit of heat

• Sesame seeds
• Nigella seeds
• Onion seeds
• Poppy seeds
• Fennel seeds
• Bagel seasoning

🥛 Getting that golden finish on vegan sausage rolls

Traditionally sausage rolls are brushed with an egg wash (egg glaze) to give them that golden finish, but that's not suitable for plant-based sausage rolls.

But don't worry, it's still easy to get that golden brown finish.

Just brush the sausage rolls with a little olive oil (other oils work too) or brush them with your favourite plant milk before baking them.

I've used oat milk and it works well too.

💭 Large sausage rolls or mini sausage rolls?

The size of the sausage rolls you make is a personal thing.

I make large sausage rolls but you can cut them smaller into mini bite-sized sausage rolls before baking them.

🍱 Serve them cold in lunch boxes

Although these veggie sausage rolls are fabulous when eaten hot from the oven they are also good served cold.

Add them to lunch boxes for kids and adults.

Kids love them served with a little tub of ketchup, but for adults pack them with salad and some tomato chutney.

Give them a go!

And if you love these, try my red lentil sausage rolls, spicy chickpeas sausage rolls or for something even more special try these mushroom and chestnut sausage rolls, they are very popular to serve at Christmas.

👩🏻‍🍳 Storing homemade vegan sausage rolls

Once cool, you can store these kidney bean and cheese sausage rolls in an airtight container in the fridge for 4-5 days.

I like to pop some kitchen paper or baking paper between the layers.

🌡️ Freezing sausage rolls

Try freezing unbaked sausage rolls and then cook them from frozen.

Flash freeze them in a single layer on a tray, then pop them in a labelled freezer bag or tub and freeze them for 3-4 months.

Top tip - wrap the individual sausage rolls in freezer-friendly parchment paper or baking paper, so they don't stick together.

🌡️ Leftover sausage rolls, freeze them too!

You can also freeze leftover sausage rolls, also wrap them in baking paper to stop them sticking together.

Then when you want one, leave it in the fridge overnight to defrost it or if you can't wait, use the defrost setting on your microwave and crisp it up in the air fryer or oven.

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👩🏻‍🍳 How to make easy vegan sausage rolls with red kidney beans & cheese

These step-by-step photos will show you how to make easy BBQ cheesy bean sausage rolls.

Step 1

• Preheat the oven.
• In a large mixing bowl add the drained beans and then mash them with a fork.
• Add the onion and the grated carrot (full recipe card below).

Step 2

• Now add the vegan cheese, sauce, herbs and seasonings.
• Mix until really well combined.

Step 3

• Unroll your puff pastry sheet (or roll a block into a large rectangle).
• Cut the pastry into 4 large rectangles.
• Add a quarter of the filling to each rectangle along the middle (nearer the top edge) in a sausage shape.
• Rub a little water along the top edges of the pastry (each rectangle) and pull the bottom of the pastry over the filling and seal on the top edge with your finger.
• Seal along the edge with the prongs (tines) of a fork, it seals and leaves a nice pattern along the edge of the sausage rolls.
• Cut each large sausage roll in half to make 8 sausage rolls (or into 4 pieces for 16 mini sausage rolls) and cut slits into the top of each to let out steam.
• Brush each sausage roll with oil or milk, then sprinkle over some sesame seeds before baking until golden.
• Cool on a wire rack.
• Enjoy!