Sausage, Cheese, and Bean Melt Recipe – Easy and Delicious

If your family loves the classic Greggs bean and cheese melt, then you’ll love this homemade sausage, cheese, and bean melt recipe. Made with puff pastry, baked beans, and cheddar cheese, it’s a budget-friendly, kid-approved meal or snack that tastes just as good as the bakery version.

Why We Love This Recipe

• Works for lunchboxes, picnics, or quick dinners
• Perfect fakeaway alternative to Greggs.
• Kids love them as a warm after-school snack.
• Budget-friendly and easy to batch cook.

Tips & Variations

• Vegetarian version: skip the sausage and make a classic bean and cheese melt.
• Freezer-friendly: assemble uncooked, freeze on a tray, then store in a bag. Bake straight from frozen, adding 5 minutes to cooking time.
• Air fryer method: cook at 180°C for 12–15 minutes until golden brown.
• Cheese options: swap cheddar for mozzarella for a gooier melt, or add a little red Leicester for extra flavour.

How to make a Sausage, Cheese and Bean Melt

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Sausage, Cheese and Bean Melt Recipe

Fakeaway version o Greggs Sausage, Cheese and Bean Melt

Course Side Dish, Snack

Keyword baking, Fakeaway, Greggs

Prep Time 15 minutes

Cook Time 20 minutes

Servings 6 Melts

Ingredients

• 1 Tin Baked Beans and Sausage
• Grated Cheese
• 1 Egg Beaten
• 1 Packet Puff Pastry

Instructions

1. Take your puff pastry out of the fridge and allow to come to room temperature. We have used both ready rolled and ready to roll and prefer the roll your own as you can make more!

2. Preheat your oven to 200 degrees

3. Roll out your pastry and cut into 12 equal sized regtangles (enough to make six melts)

4. Take your beaten egg and brush around the edges of six of the rectangles

   

5. Chop up the sausges and mix well with the drained beans (you can slighly mash the beans at this stage).

6. Spoon in to the center of the pastry and cover in grated cheese – we like red leicster.

7. Add the top and crimp to seal, the simplest way is to press round the outside with a fork to close.

8. Eggwash the top of your Melts and cook for 20 minutes

   

Recipe Notes

You can also cook these in an air fryer – 180 degrees for 15 minutes 

We have decided that these Sausage, Cheese and Bean Melts are even more delicious than the shop-bought ones and they are so much cheaper for less than £2 you can make six.

Tip: Give the baked beans a little mash with a folk and they will thinken the tomoto sauce.

More Fakeaway Recipes

If you like this then do check out our other fakeways including Donna Kebab and Sweet Chilli Noodles.