Recipe: Delicious Baked bacon and onion roly poly

Baked bacon and onion roly poly. Cover the bacon with the sliced onion, and sprinkle the stock cube over the top. Use a little water to wet around the edge of the pastry, and roll up like a Swiss roll. Use the paper to push it over.

Mix the suet, flour and water together. Gently fry the diced bacon in a frying pan, so that the fat runs out and the bacon browns. Put it in a basin while lightly frying the onion in the bacon fat. You can have Baked bacon and onion roly poly using 8 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Baked bacon and onion roly poly

1. It's 8 oz of bacon or ham, chopped.
2. You need 1 of red or white onion, chopped.
3. Prepare 1/4 pints of gravy.
4. You need 8 oz of self raising flour.
5. You need 1 pinch of each, salt & pepper.
6. You need 4 oz of suet, vegetable or beef.
7. Prepare 1/4 pints of cold water.
8. You need 4 oz of mushrooms, sliced (optional).

Cook the onion until it is just tender. Mix it with the bacon, parsley and pepper. To make the suet crust pastry, mix the dry ingredients to a soft dough with the water. A classic dish brought to us by Gail & Jill of the Blacksmith's Café in Hastings.

Baked bacon and onion roly poly instructions

1. Fry bacon/ham in a little oil, do not brown, remove from pan.
2. Add onion to pan, fry gently until transparent, if using mushrooms add at this stage, return bacon to pan..
3. Add sufficient gravy to moisten, you don't want it too wet, combine and allow to cool..
4. Heat oven to 200C.
5. Place flour, suet and salt & pepper in a bowl, add enough water to make a firm dough..
6. On a floured surface roll into a rectangle approximately 3/8 -1/4 inch thick.
7. Spread cooled bacon mixture evenly over pastry leaving a half inch gap all round edge..
8. Moisten edges with water, from wide side roll like a swiss roll, ensure edges are sealed, place on a greased baking sheet with the seam at the bottom..
9. Cook in centre of oven for 45- 60minutes, until golden brown.
10. Serve sliced with potatoes and vegetables of choice and lots of gravy.
11. You can spread a thin coat of your favourite barbecue sauce on the pastry before adding the bacon mixture for added flavour..
12. You can use this pastry (without the pepper) to make a jam or syrup roly poly, roll out pastry as above, spread with jam, raspberry for preference, or syrup, roll and bake as above, serve with lashings of custard..

Relish our Bacon Roly Poly recipe. It is a traditional English specialty. The best of this dish is that it consists of simple ingredients that are self-rising flour, bacon, onions, salt, pepper and shredded suet. Sometimes they add some other ingredients as parsley, mushrooms and leek. The bacon is wrapped in batter and baked.