Mains

Hot savoury roll

From
Rósa
Oven
180–200 °C180–200 °C (350–400 °F)

Ingredients

  • 1 can asparagus, large can, liquid kept
  • about 1½ tubs cream cheese spread (Icelandic smurostur comes in small tubs; use a processed cheese spread or plain cream cheese.)
  • blue cheese (optional)
  • ham
  • mushrooms
  • 2 tbsp mayonnaise
  • rúllutertubrauð (a sheet of rolled sandwich bread) (Icelandic shops sell a large, thin, crustless sheet of bread for savoury rolls. Use crustless white sandwich bread, rolled thin and overlapped into a rectangle.)
  • egg
  • grated cheese
  • paprika

Method

  1. Pour the liquid from the asparagus into a pan and add the cheese spread (and blue cheese, if using).
  2. Simmer, stirring, until the cheese has melted into a thick sauce.
  3. Cut the ham, asparagus and mushrooms into pieces, put them in a bowl and add the mayonnaise.
  4. Then mix the cheese sauce and the ham mixture together.
  5. Spread the filling over the sheet of bread.
  6. Roll up and place seam side down on a baking tray lined with baking paper. Heat the oven to 180–200°C.Roll up and place seam side down on a baking tray lined with baking paper. Heat the oven to 350–400 °F.
  7. Beat an egg with a fork and brush it over the roll. Sprinkle with grated cheese.
  8. Dust with paprika.
  9. Bake at 180–200°C for about 15 minutes, until the cheese is golden.Bake at 350–400 °F for about 15 minutes, until the cheese is golden.

As she wrote it

Heit Rúlluterta
(Rósa)
1 stór dós aspas, lögur settur í pott + ca. 1 1/2 dós smurostur (+ gráð ost) Láta malla. Skinka + aspas + sveppir skorið í bita, sett í skál + 2 msk. majó. Síðan öllu bl. saman smurt yfir Rúllut. brauðið. Rúllað upp. Egg þeytt m/gaffli smurt yfir → Rifinn ostur yfir strá papr. dufti yfir 180°C - 200°C í ca. 15 mín.