Meatball Pancake Bake by The Bowler
Meatball Pancake Bake
Cheesy things up with this meatball pancake recipe from Jez Felwick aka The Bowler
Equipment
- Sauce pan
- Frying pan
- Baking dish
Ingredients
For the pancake
- 250 ml milk
- 2 eggs
- 130 g plain flour
- 2 big pinches salt
- 15 ml vegetable oil
For the balls – Make your own meatballs or make some 'cheatballs'
- 4-6 free range pork sausages
For the filling
- 75 g spinach
- 30 g pesto
- 115 g ricotta cheese
- Pinch of nutmeg
- Pinch of black pepper
- 120 g grated cheese for topping
Instructions
- Heat oven to 200°C or 180°C fan
Make pancakes & balls
- Pancakes – Blitz all ingredients. Make 8 14-16cm diameter pancakes. Set aside. Can do this in advance or use anyleftover ones from pancake day!
- Cheatballs – Remove the skin and roll into 32 – 40 small 20g balls. Can do this with a little water on your hands to avoid sticking. Brown with a splash of oil in a frying pan for 5mins. Remove to cool.
Build the pancakes
- Wash spinach. Put into hot saucepan to wilt it. Drain and squeeze it between 2 plates to drain off any excess water. Chop finely. Stir all the ingredients together
- Build the pancakes. Put a heaped table spoon of ricotta filling in a line in the middle of each pancake. Place 4/5 meatballs on the filling. Fold left and right ends in and roll over burrito style so they are sealed parcels.
Tomato Sauce
- You will need approx 500g of this. Either make a basic tomato sauce by cooking off some garlic in a little oil, adding passata /chopped tomatoes and cooking for 15min, then season with salt and pepper OR make some of the Bowlers Spiced Tomato sauce OR just grab a nice jar of some thing tomatotastic.
Finish the dish
- Put the sauce at the bottom of a baking dish. Line up the pancakes on top of the sauce. Cover with cheese. Bake for 25mins or until the cheese is golden brownand the sauce is bubbling.
- Cover with cheese.
- Bake for 25mins or until the cheese is golden brownand the sauce is bubbling
- Serve with a green salad, crusty garlic bread or demolish it as is!
Notes
Meatball and tomato sauce recipes can be found in The Bowler’s Meatball Cookbook.
In this revolutionary cookbook, Jez brings a magical combination of flavours from the street into your home. Containing recipes ranging from the perennially popular Great Balls of Fire – made with pork, beef, ricotta and chilli and served in a Spiced Red Onion and Tomato Sauce – to lightly scented Wasabi Salmon and Sesame fish balls with Citrus Ponzu Dressing.
With more than 70 ballistic ideas including original sauces, sides and salads, each recipe packs a punch that’ll make your taste buds sing.
