24 April is National Pigs In A Blanket Day, and if you are not familiar with this treat, this is going to become your favourite celebration ever!
This delicious treat has been the mainstay of children’s cuisine for generations and can be found in local variations all over the world. While the concept is simple, the executions can be surprisingly complex, and with such delicious variety, you will never tire of what seems a basic treat!
To make them is simple – you take a sausage and wrap it! Usually, you will find them wrapped in some form of pastry, puff pastry being the most popular.
But, that is hardly the only thing it’s wrapped in. In Mexico, they are known as Salchitacos, and consist of salchica (meaning sausage) and tacos wrapped in a tortilla and then dunked into sizzling hot vegetable oil.
One of the most unique varieties is found in China, where the meat is wrapped in a steamed pastry – not baked or fried – known as Lap Cheong Bao. One of the international variations that is also one of the favourites, is the Finnish nakkipiilo (meaning hidden sausage).
Celebrate today by having Pigs in a Blanket with every meal – breakfast, lunch, dinner and in between! For breakfast, you can take breakfast sausages, wrap them up in instant scone dough and bake them in the oven. Lunch time calls for the classic – roll out some puff pastry, coat it in tomato sauce and wrap it around a hot dog for an Israeli Moshe Ba’Teiva (Moses in the Ark). Then it is time to wrap it all up with dinner – with a distinguished Wurstchen im Schlafrock or sausage in a dressing gown. This dish is a delicious sausage, wrapped in bacon, wrapped in cheese, wrapped in puff pastry!
Doesn’t that sound amazing! Today is the perfect opportunity for you to try them all and maybe even create your own variations!
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