Meat-free sausage roll

A meat-free sausage roll (also known as a vegetarian sausage roll or vegan sausage roll) is a savoury pastry snack that contains a non-meat filling. The snack is an alternative to the conventional sausage roll that generally contains pork or beef. Meat-free sausage rolls are sold at retail outlets and are also available from bakeries as a takeaway food.

Composition

The basic composition of a meat-free sausage roll is sheets of puff pastry formed into tubes around a meat alternative filling, before being baked. Common meat alternatives used to create the meatless sausage in a meat-free sausage roll include pea protein, mushrooms, soybean products, lentils, quinoa, and beans.[1]

Linda McCartney Foods produce meat-free sausage rolls based on soya.[2][3]

The Greggs meat-free sausage roll (home-baked)

In the UK in 2019, the bakery chain Greggs launched a meat-free sausage roll[4][5] made using the mycoprotein mixture Quorn.[6] It became one of the company's five best-selling products, and contributed to a 50% increase in their profits.[7]

See also

References

  1. Kassraie, Aaron (3 September 2021). "Is Vegan Sausage Actually Good for You?". aarp.org. AARP. Archived from the original on 21 August 2025. Retrieved 5 April 2025.
  2. "Vegetarian Sausage Rolls". Linda McCartney Foods. Retrieved 28 May 2020.
  3. "New Vegan-friendly Releases From Linda McCartney | Vegan Life Magazine". 13 February 2017. Archived from the original on 27 September 2020. Retrieved 28 May 2020.
  4. "Greggs vegan sausage rolls: Londoners split on 'insanely popular' pastry as some stores in capital sell out". The Standard. 3 January 2019. Retrieved 8 January 2019.
  5. Williams, Zoe (7 January 2019). "Half-baked: what Greggs' vegan sausage roll says about Brexit Britain". The Guardian. Retrieved 8 January 2019.
  6. Smithers, Rebecca (17 May 2019). "How Quorn makes the filling for Greggs' vegan sausage rolls". The Guardian. Retrieved 21 May 2019.
  7. Godwin, Richard (3 September 2019). "The vegan halo: how plant-based products are transforming British brands". The Guardian. Retrieved 9 September 2019.