Messy meatball buns

Name: Messy meatball buns
Total time: 21 min
Yield: 4
Ingredients: 400 g lean minced beef; 8 heaped teaspoons green pesto; 1 X 400 g tin of plum tomatoes; 1 x 125 g ball of mozzarella; 4 soft burger buns

With pesto, mozzarella & tomato sauce for dunking

Makes 4

Cooks In21 minutes

DifficultyNot too tricky

Beef Meatball Bread Minced beef Quick & Easy – Series 1 Lunch & dinner recipes

Nutrition per serving

Calories 495 25%
Fat 24g 34%
Saturates 8.5g 43%
Sugars 5.8g 6%
Salt 2g 33%
Protein 35.5g 71%
Carbs 35.5g 14%
Fibre 2.4g -

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By Jamie Oliver

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Ingredients

400 g lean minced beef
8 heaped teaspoons green pesto
1 X 400 g tin of plum tomatoes
1 x 125 g ball of mozzarella
4 soft burger buns

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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.