Delicious, nourishing and perfect for work or school lunches!
These are a hit wherever we go. Perfect for school lunch boxes, filled with beautiful nourishing ingredients and brilliant to freeze. We make huge batches of them and they are the easiest dinner, lunch even breakfast!
My little darling twins have just started kindergarten. It's the first time I've had to pack lunch boxes and I'm determined to give them beautiful nourishing foods to help them through.
I'm really trying to find lunchbox ideas that don't always involve bread or sandwiches and these are perfect. Kids deserve to be nourished with their brains and their bodies being tested, stretched and moved in new ways.
These hit the spot and I'm so happy to share this recipe with you.
I hope you enjoy it - be sure to let me know! Alisa 🙂
* I want to thank the fabulous Cyndi O'Meara for this original recipe. I have changed it a fair bit & added alot of veggies and seeds and this is the recipe that we use & love! - I hope it becomes a regular in your lunch boxes too!
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Ingredients
N.b. If I'm not making these for school lunches I will add almonds but to be nut free just leave them out.
Leave out almonds if making them for school lunches!
Directions
Blend seeds to make a seed meal powder
Add onion, garlic, greens and herbs and using food processor or thermomix finely chop (you want them cut very fine but not soup!)
Add veggies and chop (you want them very fine)
Add oats and combine/blend
Add breadcrumbs, fetta, eggs & tamari and combine/blend
Mixture will be bright green - don't worry it won't look like this once it's cooked. You want it to be very fine so you can't see individual veggies so it will make a good super smooth filling. If it's too runny place it in fridge for 30 minutes or add some more oats and process again.
Place 1/6th of the mixture onto the long edge of the pastry and roll, cut into four equal portions.
Place sausage rolls on a lined baking tray, bake for 25 - 40 minutes at 180°C until crisp and golden. I turn mine over half way through. The time to cook these is totally dependant on your oven.
These freeze brilliantly too once they have cooled.
Ingredients
Directions
Blend seeds to make a seed meal powder
Add onion, garlic, greens and herbs and using food processor or thermomix finely chop (you want them cut very fine but not soup!)
Add veggies and chop (you want them very fine)
Add oats and combine/blend
Add breadcrumbs, fetta, eggs & tamari and combine/blend
Mixture will be bright green - don't worry it won't look like this once it's cooked. You want it to be very fine so you can't see individual veggies so it will make a good super smooth filling. If it's too runny place it in fridge for 30 minutes or add some more oats and process again.
Place 1/6th of the mixture onto the long edge of the pastry and roll, cut into four equal portions.
Place sausage rolls on a lined baking tray, bake for 25 - 40 minutes at 180°C until crisp and golden. I turn mine over half way through. The time to cook these is totally dependant on your oven.
These freeze brilliantly too once they have cooled.
Hello!
These are a regular in our house for my biggest miss’s lunch box. Any ideas for what to do with left over filling?
We just make more and freeze!
Only just got onto this recipe & it’s amazing thank you! My daughter downed them so quickly! The taste is amazing. So yum! I used filo pastry which I have never used before. They didn’t turn out looking the best- not very professional looking but that is probably because I had no idea what I was doing with filo. Cooked nice and crispy though! Would puff pastry work better? Looks like you’ve used puff pastry in your pictures? If I use filo again should I use one or 2 layers of filo to roll them up in?
These are the best! All my kids love them, easy nutritious lunch to grab for school. So much goodness in one bite. (I used more than I/2 cup greens (more like 1/2 bunch silverbeet), plus added hemp seeds, just because 🙂
What could I replace the oats with to make it gluten free?
Leave them out! Just add some extra GF bread 🙂
Thanks! I made them tonight… They are so good! Hopefully the kids agree tomorrow
once frozen do we put in the oven straight from the freezer? How long do you bake for to re heat?
Hello, do you think these would be ok without the eggs? We don’t eat eggs. I see it has chia seeds so I’m wondering if they’d be ok.
We have not tried it with Chia eggs but give it a go and let us know how they turn out!
Hello,
My family love these sausage rolls, however I haven’t yet perfected how many tablespoons of tamari to add and it’s missing from your recipe. Please help! Thanks.
Ooops! Corrected! The answer is 1 🙂