Pigs-in-a-Blanket Sandwich

Time :40

Yield :3 servings

Recipe Background

Remember the first time you tried an appetizer and thought, "you know, I could just eat this as my meal"? Quite the revelation, right? Well, Pigs-in-a-Blanket Sandwich is on the same wavelength because it takes one of the most amazing appetizers and makes it into a sandwich you could enjoy anytime! The savory, spiced sausages rolled in crispy, succulent bacon and topped with bright, sweet, and tart cranberry sauce and thick gravy, all atop a roll is a literal recipe for success; your tastebuds will certainly feel successful as they enjoy each bite of Pigs-in-a-Blanket Sandwich. Your appetite will be more than sated with this appetizer-based lunch!

Ingredients

12 slices streaky bacon
12 chipolata sausages
12 small sage leaves
3 sprigs rosemary
olive oil to taste
3-6 tablespoons cranberry sauce
3 large soft white rolls halved
gravy to taste, cooked

Directions

Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.
On a cutting board, lay 1 strip of the bacon.
Place a sausage and a sage leaf perpendicular at one end of the bacon strip.
Tightly roll the sausage and the sage leaf in the bacon and secure it with a toothpick.
Repeat with the remaining bacon, the remaining sausages, and the remaining sage leaves.
On a small baking tray, lay the rosemary sprigs.
Add the bacon-wrapped sausages to the tray.
Drizzle the olive oil over the bacon-wrapped sausages.
Bake the bacon-wrapped sausages, turning them once halfway through, until they are deeply golden and crispy, about 30 minutes.
When they are cool enough to handle, remove the toothpicks from the pigs in blankets.
Add a dollop of the cranberry sauce to each of the rolls.
Add the bacon-wrapped sausages to the rolls.
Serve the bacon-wrapped sausages with the gravy.