5 Ingredients – Quick & Easy Food
By Jamie Oliver
Messy meatball buns
With pesto, mozzarella & tomato sauce for dunking
21 mins
Not Too Tricky
makes 4
About the recipe
These 5-ingredient meatball buns are delicious – and perfect for encouraging little ones to get hands-on in the kitchen.
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Ingredients
400g lean minced beef
8 heaped teaspoons green pesto
1 x 400g tin of plum tomatoes
1 x 125g ball of mozzarella
4 soft burger buns
Method
- Use your clean hands to scrunch the minced beef with half the pesto and a pinch of sea salt and black pepper.
- Split into 12 pieces and, with wet hands, roll into balls. Brown the balls all over in a non-stick frying pan on a high heat with 1 tablespoon of olive oil, shaking the pan regularly.
- Once the balls are golden and gnarly, pour in the tomatoes, breaking them up with a wooden spoon, along with just a quarter of a tin’s worth of water.
- Bring to the boil, slice the mozzarella and lay over the balls, pop the lid on and leave to thicken for 5 minutes on a medium heat.
- Meanwhile, warm your buns in a large dry non-stick frying pan or in the oven on a low heat.
- Split each bun and spread 1 heaped teaspoon of pesto inside. Divvy up the balls and mozzarella with a little sauce, serving the rest on the side for dunking.
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