Spicy Lamb Pinwheels (3 Ingredients)
Spice up your next dinner party with lamb pinwheels, a quick and easy lamb appetizer you can make in 20 minutes flat with just 3 ingredients. Spicy merguez sausage is wrapped in sriracha-covered puff pastry making it a cost-effective yet impressive lamb canapé, perfect for any gathering, from game day to holiday parties.
Quick and easy lamb pinwheels, a hearty appetizer
Cooking lamb doesn’t have to be complicated and just like my ground lamb Wellingtons, these 3-ingredient lamb puff pastry pinwheels are super quick and easy to make. They’re also a budget-friendly option to feed a crowd by stretching 2 lamb sausages across 4 appetizer portions.
I love to serve the sausage pinwheels with some homemade tzatziki or mint chimichurri, both excellent matches for lamb dishes.
Ingredients and substitutions
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- Lamb sausages – Merguez is a spicy North African sausage that instantly adds some nice heat and flavor to these lamb pinwheels but any lamb sausage will do. Slice them open lengthwise to remove the meat easily from the casing.
- Puff pastry – Ready-made puff pastry is great for convenience but you can also use homemade puff pastry or my no-fail 3-ingredient pie crust.
- Sriracha – I personally like the heat level of Sriracha sauce but you can use a milder or much hotter sauce to adjust the spiciness of these lamb bites to your liking.
How to make spicy lamb pinwheels
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Brush the puff pastry sheet with Sriracha.
Spread the lamb sausage meat on top.
Roll up the sheet tightly.
Cut 1/2 inch slices and bake the Merguez pinwheels in a preheated oven.
Storage
Once cooked, you can store the meaty pinwheels for up to 2 days in an airtight container in the fridge. Simply reheat them in the oven or the microwave.
I don’t recommend freezing cooked meat pinwheels. But you can use from-scratch pastry and freeze unbaked pinwheels individually, and cook them from frozen later on. This is a great way to meal prep them ahead of time for a dinner party.
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Spicy Lamb Pinwheels
Ingredients
- 1 puff pastry sheet 8×8 inches
- 1 tbsp Sriracha sauce
- 2 lamb sausages Merguez or other
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 425F (220C) and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
- Lay the puff pastry sheet onto the parchment paper lined baking tray. Using a pastry brush or the back of a large spoon, evenly spread the Sriracha sauce on the puff pastry sheet.1 puff pastry sheet, 1 tbsp Sriracha sauce
- Remove the casing from the lamb sausages and spread the sausage meat on top of the Sriracha sauce covering everything but the top and bottom edge (about 1/2 inch) of the puff pastry sheet.2 lamb sausages
- Tightly roll the pastry sheet up starting at the top or bottom. Roll it up into a cylinder and press the edge into the pastry sheet to seal the roll. Cut the sausage roll into 12 x 1/2 inch thick slices and lay them out on the baking sheet.
- Bake the lamb pinwheels for 15 minutes or until golden brown. Serve while warm with some homemade tzatziki or lamb chimichurri sauce.
