This is mom's recipe sausage roll (or the most modern name for this is called stuffed pizza dough).
This post is about the many versions from different Regions in Italy and there are several traditional family recipes all delicious and a little different in fillings.
Italian sausage roll is usually served in most Italian households during a holiday as an appetizer, we love it so much we make this as a meal and add an antipasto salad for a wonderful light dinner.
There are so many styles of stuffed pizza dough so many options to add and adapt the pizza dough, again feel free to adapt the basic recipe to how your family was taught and the ingredients.
If you like hot sausage, sweet or herb-flavored all of them will be fine to substitute mostly everyone in our family likes a mild sausage in our rolls.
There are also other meat suggestions in this recipe you can use however once you start adding things it is more a stromboli stuffed dough and not an authentic sausage roll.
The basic filling again depends on Region in Italy, use loose sausage, grated cheese, and mozzarella cheese all stuffed in pizza dough, Mom's Region, and added egg.
Mom's version with the addition of boiled egg and raw egg to sausage has always been her specialty roll (taught by her mom from Bari Italy).
If you would like an eggless version, there are many suggestions below to adapt the recipe with or without egg and make this plain and simple.
We also always use homemade pizza dough and make many other versions like broccoli rabe and sausage roll a family favorite.
Scroll down to the printable recipe card and to avoid ads hit print for a quicker view.
This post is about the many versions from different Regions in Italy and there are several traditional family recipes all delicious and a little different in fillings.
Italian sausage roll is usually served in most Italian households during a holiday as an appetizer, we love it so much we make this as a meal and add an antipasto salad for a wonderful light dinner.
There are so many styles of stuffed pizza dough so many options to add and adapt the pizza dough, again feel free to adapt the basic recipe to how your family was taught and the ingredients.
If you like hot sausage, sweet or herb-flavored all of them will be fine to substitute mostly everyone in our family likes a mild sausage in our rolls.
There are also other meat suggestions in this recipe you can use however once you start adding things it is more a stromboli stuffed dough and not an authentic sausage roll.
The basic filling again depends on Region in Italy, use loose sausage, grated cheese, and mozzarella cheese all stuffed in pizza dough, Mom's Region, and added egg.
Mom's version with the addition of boiled egg and raw egg to sausage has always been her specialty roll (taught by her mom from Bari Italy).
If you would like an eggless version, there are many suggestions below to adapt the recipe with or without egg and make this plain and simple.
We also always use homemade pizza dough and make many other versions like broccoli rabe and sausage roll a family favorite.
Scroll down to the printable recipe card and to avoid ads hit print for a quicker view.
