Sausage Flowers with Cheese, Sesame, and Spring Onion

These sausage flowers are both fun to make and really delicious! Soft and fluffy yeast dough wrapped around juicy sausages, topped with melted cheese, sesame seeds, and fresh spring onions. Perfect for dinner, a late-night snack, lunchboxes, or whenever you want to serve something a little extra special.

• 280 g all-purpose flour
• ½ tsp salt
• 2 tbsp sugar
• 2 tsp dry yeast
• 1.5 dl lukewarm milk
• 1 egg
• 50 g butter, at room temperature
• 6 sausages
• Grated cheese
• Sesame seeds 
• Spring onion

1. Place the flour, salt, sugar, and dry yeast in the bowl of a stand mixer.
2. Add the lukewarm milk and egg. Knead the dough for about 10 minutes.
3. Add the room-temperature butter and knead for another 5 minutes, until the dough is smooth and elastic.
4. Cover the bowl and let the dough rise for about 1 hour, or until doubled in size.
5. Dust the work surface with flour and divide the dough into 6 equal pieces, rolling them into balls.
6. Roll out one ball at a time into an elongated shape. Place a sausage on the dough and wrap the dough around the sausage.
7. Then cut the sausage into 6 equal pieces.
8. Place the sausage pieces next to each other to form a flower shape on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Cover and let them proof for 20 minutes.
9. Brush with egg and sprinkle with some cheese and sesame seeds 
10. Bake in the middle of the oven at 175 °C for about 25 minutes, until the sausage rolls are golden and cooked through.
11. Sprinkle with spring onion after they come out of the oven.
    

Serve the sausage flowers while they are still warm, as they are at their best! They can also be easily varied with your favorite cheese or some other tasty topping. A simple and good recipe that is sure to please both young and old.