Crispy, fluffy rolls and in between a luscious filling? Perfect everyday, right? Like these meatballs subs. Meatball subs are meatballs with tomato sauce in a sandwich roll. To round off the colours and for soothing my conscience I added a few leaves of fresh spinach. Done!
To balance the spicyness of the meatballs and the tomato sauce I used chipotle chili flakes, because they are smoked, which tastes divine! If you don’t get chipotle chili flakes (or ground chipotle) use normal chili powder and smoked sea salt instead of normal sea salt. I cannot relinquish smoked sea salt, anymore, since it adds a great zest especially to vegetarian dishes. Just awesome! I prefer to use smoked Maldon Sea Salt or a Danish smoked sea salt from my spice dealer Wurzelsepp.
If you buy the rolls from your local bakery and don’t bake them yourself these meatball subs are a quick affair. Although I will not hold you back from baking your own, because these rolls are amazing. If you like you find the recipe here. But today it’s just about some easy spicy streetfood!
Two yeas ago: piña colada ice cream
Five years ago: bruschetta
Meatball Subs with Alibi Spinach
yields: 4 meatball subs
Ingredients:
- 650 g minced beef
- 1 small onion, finely diced
- 1 tsp medium spicy mustard
- 1 egg
- 3 Tbsp bread crumbs
- 1 tsp dried majoram (fresh would be phenomenal, you only need half the amount)
- sea salt
- black pepper, freshly ground
- 1/4 tsp chipotle chilli flakes (or ground, then half the amount)
- clarified butter
- 300 g tomato passata
- 1/2 tsp chipotle chilli flakes
- 4 long rolls (bought or baked from this recipe)
- 100 g leaves of spinach, cleaned rinsed
- 150 g sharp cheddar, coarsely grated
Knead the minced meat with the onion, mustard, egg, spices and bread crumbs with your hands and let it rest for 10 minutes.
Form golf ball sized meatballs and fry them in clarified butter in a frying pan until they are browned on all sides.
Add the tomato sauce with the chilli flakes and season with salt and pepper. Turn down the heat and braise the meatballs in the sauce shortly.
Cut the rolls open on one long side so you can open it, but it still attached on the other side. Remove some crumb so the meatballs better fit inside the roll. Cover the bottom with spinach leaves and place 4 meatballs next to each other in the roll. Cover with sauce and sprinkle with cheese. Close the roll and squeeze it a bit.
Enjoy!
Das sieht mega lecker aus. Ich finde ja auch selbstgebackene Brötchen immer am allerbesten. Ich backe auch immer meine Burgerbrötchen selbst. Subs habe ich allerdings bisher noch nicht selbst gebacken, aber ich denke es ist an der Zeit es nun doch mal endlich zu tun.
xo.mareen
Auf jeden Fall, Mareen! Die Subs sind einfach zum reinlegen :).
Ich kaufe auch gerne gute Brötchen, aber die Auswahl bei uns ist wirklich schlecht und die besten Brötchen sind leider vom Kettenbäcker, den ich auch nicht unbedingt unterstützen möchte. Die rustikalen Brötchen sind aber auch so einfach, dass man sie wirklich selbst machen kann. Burgerbrötchen sind auch selbst gemacht am besten, da gebe ich dir vollkommen recht!