7 Days: Day 1 – Best sandwich EVAH

28 March 2009

I made a fancy lunch today. So fancy, that in fact I started making it yesterday evening. Meatball subs have intrigued me for a while, simply because of their pop culture status in my formative years. In other words, Joey from “Friends” liked them. However, the idea of keeping spherical meatballs and a bunch of marinara sauce inside a bread roll while biting into it seemed too much like hard work to me.

So I’ve adapted the main elements and squished them into what was a very yummy lunch today. Here’s what I did to feed three people (though please note that Sam has made me a very drinkable James Bond Martini now, so who knows what I’m going to write):

MEAT PATTIES:
250g pork or beef mince
15g breadcrumbs
1/4 onion, finely diced
1 tsp dried oregano
1 tsp Worcestershire sauce
1/2 egg, beaten (1 1/2 tbsp)
Seasoning

THE PIONEER WOMAN’S BARBECUE SAUCE (www.thepioneerwoman.com)
1/2 cup tomato ketchup (hello, American units!)
1 tbsp sugar
1 1/2 tbsp vinegar
1 tbsp Worcestershire sauce
chopped onion, to taste

ROLLS
3 sub rolls, halved lengthways and lightly buttered

1. Combine all the patty ingredients in a bowl. Use your hands for extra squishiness between your fingers. Form the mixture into 3 patties to fit sub rolls. Chill in the fridge. And as you’re going in there, you might as well take the patties with you.

2. When the patties have firmed up in the fridge take them out, sprinkle them with plain flour and cook them in a frying pan with a little oil. It’ll take a few minutes for each side. When they’ve got a bit of colour on side put them aside on a plate while you make the sauce.

3. For the sauce, fry the chopped onion in the frying pan (novel!) until it softens, then combine the rest of the sauce ingredients in the frying pan to warm them through. Add the patties back to the pan, cover them with the sauce and then cook until everything’s nice and hot and the sauce has reduced.

4. Meanwhile warm the lightly buttered rolls under the grill so they go a little crusty and the butter melts into the bread. Nom. Also take this time to grate a little cheese. And then some more, because, oh would you look at that, you’ve eaten half of it.

5. Put a patty into each bun, spoon on a little more sauce from the pan if you want, sprinkle some grated cheese on top, close the bun and EAT.

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Comments

2 Responses to “7 Days: Day 1 – Best sandwich EVAH”

bethany actually
28th March 2009 @ 8:40 pm

Why was frying the onions novel? Just curious. :-)

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Ricki
28th March 2009 @ 10:12 pm

Bethany, I think she was referring to the novelty of frying them in the frying pan. Isn’t she funny when she’s buzzed?!

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