A novel way to serve mini sausages to young children !This is not a recipe as such, but more like an idea for serving small sausages at a kid’s birthday party (or even served at a cocktail party for fun loving adults !) I made it recently (actually the one pictured was my Mum’s handiwork – thanks, Mum !) for my daughter’s 4th birthday party, & it looked really cute.
Basically, you take mini/chipolata sausages (beef or pork) & lightly fry them, then once they have cooled a little you secure them with toothpicks into a paw paw/papaya or similar fruit which has been cut slightly at the base so that it sits evenly on your surface. (You could also use a grapefruit - as the original recipe* states but we can’t get them here easily, hence the paw paw).
For the hedgehog’s eyes you can use green olives secured with toothpicks and for the eyelashes you can use cut pieces of black olives (the original recipe* had strips of liquorice cut to form eyelashes) & we used a mini meatball and a pickled onion to make his nose !
For young children I would remove the sausage skins after cooking & before securing to the fruit, as they can be a choking hazard.
You could also serve the hedgehog with a small bowl of dip or tomato based sauce/ketchup on the side, for dipping the sausages in to.
Basically, you take mini/chipolata sausages (beef or pork) & lightly fry them, then once they have cooled a little you secure them with toothpicks into a paw paw/papaya or similar fruit which has been cut slightly at the base so that it sits evenly on your surface. (You could also use a grapefruit - as the original recipe* states but we can’t get them here easily, hence the paw paw).
For the hedgehog’s eyes you can use green olives secured with toothpicks and for the eyelashes you can use cut pieces of black olives (the original recipe* had strips of liquorice cut to form eyelashes) & we used a mini meatball and a pickled onion to make his nose !
For young children I would remove the sausage skins after cooking & before securing to the fruit, as they can be a choking hazard.
You could also serve the hedgehog with a small bowl of dip or tomato based sauce/ketchup on the side, for dipping the sausages in to.
