Bacon Wrapped Apricots, Prunes and Cocktail Sausages

Serves: 4

Preparation: 30 minutes

Cooking Time:  c.30 minutes

Category: Flexitarian

Plan: Prepare up to two days in advance and keep refrigerated

Difficulty: Easy

Course: Side

Cuisine: Christmas, Sunday Roast, Thanksgiving

No Christmas meal with complete without Pigs in Blankets, and other goodies wrapped in streaky bacon.

Our family tradition is to go with both prunes and apricots and they are wonderful to eat cold on Boxing Day so we usually make plenty of these!

If you are serving six or eight people, double the recipe.



Ingredients

• One pack of 14 rashers streaky bacon, laid out and snipped in half
• One pack of ready to eat Apricots
• One pack of ready to eat Prunes
• Cocktail sausages, or chipolatas, twisted in halves to create cocktail sized sausages
• Wooden cocktail sticks

AND THIS IS WHAT YOU DO.....

1. Lay out the rashers on a chopping board and cut each rasher in half, as a whole length is far too long for this dish.
   
   
2. Take a prune and carefully wrap it in a half rasher and secure with a wooden cocktail stick.
   
   
3. Repeat this process as often as you wish with a selection of prunes, apricots and cocktail sausages.
   
   
4. Place each item in a roasting dish and put into the oven at 200C for about 30 minutes.   
   
   
5. Do check as you do not want these to go beyond a golden tinge.
   
   
6. Remove from the oven and keep covered in foil on a warming tray or warming oven.
   
   
7. Transfer to a serving dish when ready to carve the turkey.