BONFIRE BANGERS

The kids love these fun nibbles. The hot dogs are meant to resemble rockets - the firework kind, as I invented them for bonfire night (hence the name). I use pizza dough to wrap around the hot dog sausages, but you could use puff pastry instead if you wish.

INGREDIENTS

1 jar/pack or can of 8 hot dog sausages.
400g of pizza dough (I’ll post my recipe for this soon) or ready made puff pastry
8 wooden bbq skewers, (soaked in water for an hour, if possible)
Small pots of Tomato ketchup and American mustard (for dipping)

METHOD

1] Heat oven to 190⁰C
2] Roll out pizza dough into rectangular shape, then cut into strips, around 1 cm wide, 20 cm long. (Reserve any remaining dough for other recipes).
3] Carefully insert skewers into one end of the hot dog sausages,

and gently push until it’s around ½ way inside and the sausage is securely held.
4] Starting at the stick end of the sausage, spiral a strip of dough around the sausage, pinching it together at either end to ensure it will stay put.
5] Lay wrapped sausages on baking tray (allowing enough space for the dough to expand), and if using puff pastry, brush with a little egg wash.
6] Wrap lower end of tray with foil (to cover the skewers – this is especially important if you haven’t soaked them for long enough).
7] Bake in oven (middle shelf) for 10 minutes, (if using puff pastry, until dough is golden brown).
8] Serve with dips. I usually put them skewer down in a pint glass to serve, the kids like to pick their own, whilst watching the fireworks.

KIDS RATING – 8/10. “Yummy!”