Meat-free sausage roll
savoury pastry snack
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.
Linda McCartney Foods produce meat-free sausage rolls based on soya.
In the UK in 2019, the bakery chain Greggs launched a meat-free sausage roll made using the mycoprotein mixture Quorn. It became one of the company's five best-selling products, and contributed to a 50% increase in their profits.
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