Pork belly, Spam, and blue cheese Christmas roll

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Pork belly, Spam, and blue cheese Christmas roll

Dedicated to Glenn who isn’t a fan of blue cheese

After last night’s pork belly and Spam with fennel salad, I had some leftover pork belly and Spam. For lunch yesterday I had some smoked salmon, blue cheese, brie, and smoked cheddar cheese. Melbourne-based Tweep, Glenn Hampson, mentioned he wasn’t a fan of blue cheese.

While I was shopping this morning for Christmas seafood I thought for lunch I needed some puff pastry to make a Christmas roll.

I had misjudged how much leftover pork belly and Spam I had. It wouldn’t be a roll, more like a square envelope of pastry.

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I bought all the ingredients from Coles. No, Yummy Lummy is not sponsored by anyone.

Recipe

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Christmas roll with pork belly, Spam, and blue cheese
Prep Time
10 mins
Cook Time
30 mins
Faffing
10 mins
Total Time
40 mins
 
Christmas roll with pork belly, Spam, and blue cheese with some Coon cheese and lots of chilli flakes.
Course: Main Course
Cuisine: Australian
Keyword: Blue cheese, Christmas roll, Pork belly, Sausage roll, Spam
Servings: 1 Person
Calories: 500 kcal
Author: Gary Lum
Ingredients
  • Puff pastry
  • Leftover pork belly and Spam pieces
  • Blue cheese
  • Coon cheese
  • Poppy seeds
  • Sesame seeds
  • Chilli flakes
  • Old Bay seasoning
  • Sichuan seasoning
  • Egg
  • Black pepper
  • Iodised salt
Instructions
Christmas roll preparation
  1. In a mixing bowl add the leftover pork belly, Spam, crumbled blue cheese, and grated Coon cheese. Mix it all together.
  2. Thaw two sheets of store-bought puff pastry.
  3. Beat an egg for egg wash.
  4. Place the pork belly, Spam, blue cheese, and Coon cheese mixture onto a sheet of puff pastry leaving a margin of a couple of centimetres (one inch).
  5. Brush egg was on the margins.
  6. Add iodised salt and pepper and chilli flakes.
  7. Cover with the second sheet of puff pastry.
  8. Crimp the edges with a fork.
  9. Brush beaten egg across the surface of the puff pastry.
  10. Sprinkle on poppy seeds, sesame seeds, chilli flakes, iodised salt, a freshly cracked black pepper as well as Sichuan seasoning and Old Bay seasoning.
  11. Put the Christmas ‘roll’ into a hot oven 250 °C/480 °F for 15 minutes.
  12. At the fifteen minute mark, remove the Christmas ‘roll’ and apply more egg wash with a brush and sprinkle on more seeds and seasoning.
  13. Put the Christmas ‘roll’ back into the hot oven for another 10 minutes or until a deep golden brown.
Plating up bit
  1. Cut a slice and put it onto a plate and garnish with some parsley.
Blogging bit
  1. Shoot a photograph and a short video because Google now wants video on recipe cards.
  2. Eat the meal.
  3. Wash the dishes (hint, wash as you cook, it makes life easier).
  4. Write the recipe.
  5. Write the blog post.
  6. Hit publish and hope this blog post gets shared on Twitter, Facebook, and Pinterest.

Recipe Video

Recipe Notes

Disclaimer

I have no culinary training nor qualifications. This post is not intended to convey any health or medical advice. If you have any health concerns about anything you read, please contact your registered medical practitioner. The quantities are indicative. Feel free to vary the quantities to suit your taste. I deliberately do not calculate energy for dishes. I deliberately default to 500 Calories or 500,000 calories because I do not make these calculations.

Photographs

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  • Pork belly, Spam, and Blue cheese
  • Egg for egg wash
  • Beaten egg for egg wash
  • Sheet of puff pastry
  • Puff pastry with pork belly, Spam, and blue cheese
  • Puff pastry with pork belly, Spam, and blue cheese, egg washed
  • Egg washed Christmas log which is a square
  • Crimped egg washed Christmas log which is a square
  • Seasoned crimped egg washed Christmas log which is a square, ready for the oven
  • Christmas pork belly, Spam, and blue cheese parcel half cooked
  • Christmas pork belly, Spam, and blue cheese parcel half cooked
  • Christmas pork belly, Spam, and blue cheese parcel cooked
  • Christmas pork belly, Spam, and blue cheese parcel cooked
  • Christmas pork belly, Spam, and blue cheese parcel cooked
  • Christmas pork belly, Spam, and blue cheese parcel cooked and cut for lunch

Questions and answers

Why is a sausage roll a Christmas thing?

Check out Katie’s video on sausage rolls and Christmas

Did you honestly eat two sheets of puff pastry for lunch?

Yes I did. This was not a low carb meal.

Where’s the sauce?

Barbecue sauce or Worcestershire sauce or even tomato sauce would have been good but I was happy with the Christmas ‘roll’ sans sauce.

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Final thoughts

  • Do you like making things with store bought puff pastry?
  • How do you feel about blue cheese?
  • Sausage rolls and Christmas? Discuss.

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12 Responses

  2. My husband is a big fan of the sausage roll. He makes his own with bought puff pastry, adding a bit of black pudding to the sausage filling. Not sure why they have such a Christmas association; perhaps because they are often party food? I love blue cheese, Roquefort especially.

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  4. This looked like such a great lunch. Anything involving puff pastry is usually a winner. For a moment I thought you might have saved some for Christmas day. To be honest I like a good sausage roll anytime of the day 😀

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    1. Thanks, Mabel. It was a really filling lunch. I still feel full. I just had some red pawpaw for dinner 😃
      I really like puff pastry.

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  5. I’ll be jiggered. In my house Christmas rolls usually have cinnamon and brown sugar in them. Or are plain white cloverleaf ones we add butter to at dinner!
    Cheese used to be a huge favorite of mine, I’m learning to appreciate ones with less fat. Especially that hard to spell or say cream cheese that starts with an N.

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    1. Your Christmas rolls sound like mince pies which I always thought were weird because they have fruit and not meat in them.

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      1. Laughing, nope. Just ordinary cinnamon rolls. Spirals of sticky goodness. No fruit or nuts anywhere! I’ve never had minced pie….

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