In today’s post I will show you a super simple recipe for sausage bread rolls or sausages in a hot dog bun. The dough is portioned, then wrapped around the sausages & baked.
The sausage bread rolls are ideal party food and a hit on every buffet. Have fun baking!
Cooked/Baked today: Sausage Bread Rolls
Difficulty: Easy – Medium
Preparation Time: 1 hour & 30 minutes
Category: Main Dishes, Fast Food, Recipes with Meat, Hot Dog Recipes, Bread Recipes
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Sausage Bread Rolls
Ingredients for 8 Sausage Bread Rolls:
- 8 sausages
- 400 grams flour
- 225 milliliters water
- 1 teaspoon each of salt & sugar
- ½ cube fresh yeast (about 20 grams)
- 1 egg
Required kitchen gadgets, helper & preparations:
- Tall container for yeast water mixture
- Whisk
- Mixing bowl
- Kitchen machine or mixer
- Kitchen towel
- Baking tray + baking paper
- Small bowl
- Brush
Instructions:
…for dough:
Crumble ½ cube of yeast into a tall container, add 1 teaspoon of sugar and 225 milliliters of lukewarm water and mix everything with a whisk or a fork until the yeast and sugar have completely dissolved.

Preparing Dough
Then put the yeast-water mixture along with 400 grams flour & 1 teaspoon of salt into a mixing bowl and knead with a food processor or mixer with dough hooks for about 4 – 5 minutes until a smooth dough.
…for sausage bread rolls:
Then cut the dough into 8 pieces of approximately the same size with a knife, shape all dough pieces one after the other into a long string under the palms of your hands (approximately twice the length of the sausages) & then wrap tightly around the sausages.

Baking Sausage Bread Rolls
Place the done sausage rolls with a bit distance to each other on a baking sheet lined with baking paper & allow to rest covered with a kitchen towel for 30 – 45 minutes in a warm place .
Preheat the oven to 200°C (top/bottom heat) in good time. Whisk an egg in a small bowl and prepare. After the resting period, brush the rolls with whisked egg and bake for 15 – 20 minutes in a preheated oven until golden brown.
Take the finished rolls out of the oven, let them cool briefly & serve best warm. Have fun baking!
Video Tutorial:
Watch the video tutorial to see the recipe and the preparation method precisely (German Audio only, English Subtitles available):