Simple sausage roll type snack with a spicy mashed potato and pea filling like a vegetable samosa made with puff pastry. Plant-based, egg-free, dairy-free and vegan.

Spicy Tattie Puffs

Don't they look good? I can assure you they are.

Scotty Brand sent me some of their Kestral potatoes before Christmas and I have used them for a lot of different dishes, but nothing new or exciting until I invented these spicy tattie puffs.

Just in case you didn't know, tattie is the word for potato in Scots.

2024 UPDATE 

Shrinkflation has hit. Ready rolled puff pastry used to be a standard 375g across big brands and supermarket own brands.

It's now shrunk to 320g (Jusrol, Tesco & Asda, maybe other supermarkets too) which can make a big difference (you end up with too much filling).

So be aware you may need extra pastry or you will have leftover filling (don't try and add it all to these smaller sheets of pastry).

How to roll as sausage roll

They are super easy to make. Mashed potatoes, spicy curry paste, frozen peas and puff pastry. 

That's all there is to them, but they are really good.

Roll out a long rectangle of puff pastry, then place your filling down one side, leaving a border. 

Wet the edges of the pastry with a little water and wrap the pastry over the filling, crimp the edge and cut into the required lengths.

Remember to slice air holes into the top to let the steam out so the pastry doesn't go soggy.

You can brush the sausage roll with beaten egg, milk, soya milk or even olive oil. 

They will all help with that golden finish.

For more delicious puff pastry recipes, check out 50 BEST Plant-Based Puff Pastry Recipes for Vegans.

Portable comfort food

These are portable comfort food. 

I kid you not!

Eat them hot or cold, as part of a meal or just as a snack. 

They are very frugal too, if you are watching the pennies.

How to store potatoes

Now to the potatoes. 

I was sent the potatoes on the 12th of December and a month later they are still in good condition.

How did I manage that? I hear you ask?

Well I took them out of their bags immediately and transferred them to a thick pillowcase and stored them in my conservatory, which can be quite cold in the winter, unless I put the heaters on at full blast.

also try - Mushroom and Chestnut Sausage Rolls

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Spicy Tattie Puffs

Written by Jacqueline Meldrum

January 10, 2013

Simple sausage roll type snack with a spicy mashed potato and pea filling.

Ingredients

• 6 medium kestral potatoes, boiled and mashed with a little butter or dairy free spread
• 1 heaped tsp spicy curry paste (I used Patak's Balti Paste)
• ½ cup frozen peas (you may add more)
• 500g block puff pastry
• a sprinkling of flour, to roll pastry
• 1 egg, whisked or soya milk for glaze

Instructions

1. Heat the oven to 200c/180c fan/gas mark 6.2. In a bowl, mix together the mashed potato with the curry paste until the colour is even.3. Mix in the frozen peas.4. Dust your counter top with flour and roll out the puff pastry. At this point, you can either: - cut two long rectangles, put the filling down one side, fold the other side over, sealing with a little water, so you have a long sausage, then cut into little rectangles. - cut individual squares, add filling fold over and seal to make sausage roll shapes.5. Place on a baking tray.6. Cut slits in the top of each pastry (air vents), then brush with egg yolk and bake in the oven for 20 minutes until golden.notes: for a vegan version, mash the potato with vegan marg and do not glaze before putting in the oven. They are just as good, they just don't have that shiny finish.

Details

Total time: 50 mins
Yield: 8 large puffs (sausage roll size)

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Disclosure: Scotty Brand sent me potatoes to try. I was not expected to write a positive review and any opinions expressed are my own.