Maltese Sausage Cinnamon Rolls
Soft cinnamon rolls filled with Maltese Sausage goodness and drizzled with maple syrup. Might sound weird but trust me the taste is amazing!
Ingredients:
Dough:
180ml Warm Milk
50g Melted Unsalted Butter
1 Egg (room temperature)
400g Plain Flour
30g Caster Sugar
1/2tsp Salt
2tsp Instant Yeast
Filling:
400g Maltese Sausage
1tbsp Sugar
1tbsp Powdered Cinnamon
2tbsp Butter
Maple Syrup
Directions:
For the dough let's combine the liquids first. Warm milk, water, melted unsalted butter & the egg.
In a mixer bowl combine the dry ingredients. Flour, sugar, salt & instant yeast.
Add the dough hook attachment, and turn on the mixer and slowly add the liquid until you get a soft dough.
Keep on kneading the dough for about 10 minutes. Add extra flour to remove the stickiness in the dough. (If needed)
Place the dough in a bowl. Cover with cling film and let it rise for about an hour in a warm place. It should double in size.
In the meantime remove the sausage from the casing and break it into small pieces.
In a small bowl combine the sugar with the cinnamon.
Deflate the dough and open it on a floured kitchen top. Shape it in a rectangular shape and it should be roughly 1cm thick.
Spread the butter all over the opened dough.
Sprinkle the sugar/cinnamon mixture and coat the dough evenly leaving out about an inch from the top.
Add the sausage on top of the cinnamon mixture.
Carefully roll the dough into a cylinder.
Cut the cinnamon rolls about 2 inches wide and place them on a baking tray.
Ideally, place a piece of baking paper underneath and leave some space between them as they will puff up.
Cover them with cling film and let them rise for another hour.
Bake in a preheated oven at 180°c for 25 - 30 minutes until they are nice and golden.
Drizzle with maple syrup when they are still piping hot.
