The world's simplest meatball sandwiches.
Hi I'm Kate.
And I'm Ben and we're from Rachel's culinary crew.
And today we're sheet panning up your entire dinner.
That's right.
We've got a no roll sheet pan meatball
and an easy, easy sheet pan focaccia
to make the world's simplest meatball sandwiches.
So I like this focaccia recipe
because it's just a pre-packaged pizza crust.
It comes just with the measured out flour
and packets of yeast already.
And all you have to do is add water according
to the package directions.
So while Kate's doing that,
I'm gonna get started on the meatball mixture.
I have a mix of pork, beef, and veal.
I have one large onion that I sauteed in a little bit
of olive oil with some garlic and crushed red pepper.
So I'm gonna go ahead and add that to our meat.
I am going to add a cup of breadcrumbs.
I've got two whole eggs here that I'm gonna add
to half a cup of milk, which is gonna add a lot of moisture.
'Cause we do not want a dry meatball.
And I like to break up the yolks
before adding it to the meat mixture
so I'm chasing around yolks while I'm mixing.
I like doing this together
'cause we're basically doing the same motion.
Putting things into bowls and mixing it with our hands.
But also like that just shows how simple this meal is.
Like everything is kind of just a dump and stir.
I mixed my focaccia dough together
and then I'm only gonna knead it 15 to 20 times
In my meatballs, I like to put fresh parsley.
I think, you know, the fresh flavor
and the color is very important.
And for this recipe, we're using a cup total
of Parmigiano Reggiano.
I'm gonna put about three quarters of it
in the actual meatball itself
then I'll show you what we're gonna do with the leftover.
And then of course,
big pinch of salt and pepper gotta season every step
of the way.
When the focaccia comes together
and is a nice smooth ball of dough,
I'm gonna put it in an oiled bowl,
cover it with plastic, and leave it to rise
for about an hour and a half.
I think the only thing left to do is just get in there.
I think that's the best way to mix any kind of patty.
So I have left my dough to rise
and it has doubled in size.
Woo.
You can see it is quite voluminous.
I'm gonna prepare the pan
by just covering the whole thing in olive oil.
So my meat mixture is all mixed.
I'm just gonna transfer it
to my foil lined bordered sheet tray.
I'm dimpling and I'm also stretching out the dough
so it fills out the corner of the pan.
Our meatball and our focaccia are gonna cook
at the same temperature for roughly the same time,
for 15, 20 minutes.
(timer dinging)
So everything's out of the oven,
focaccia I let cool for about 10 minutes
and I'm gonna brush it with some garlic butter.
I took four cloves of garlic and I melted it
into a stick of butter.
So I'm gonna finish this meatball parm
and I've got some store bought marinara sauce
but if you have homemade feel free to use it.
Gonna give a nice generous covering
to the top of our meatball patty.
I'm also putting parm on my focaccia
because why not at this point.
We're really going for it.
(upbeat music)
So we've sauced it,
now we've got some shredded mozzarella cheese.
Cover generously the entire surface.
Can I put some parm on it?
Sure, you wanna put this parm
on there too while we're at it?
Just parm it up.
It's a parm.
So this is gonna go into the broiler
just until we get golden brown cheese and bubble action.
(timer dinging)
Oh, boy.
Whoa.
Look at that.
All right, send us home, Kate, send us home.
So I'm gonna take the focaccia
and put it on the cutting board.
I'm just gonna cut this focaccia in half
and it's gonna be the top and the bottom bread
for our meatball parm.
Gonna I come in from this side.
(Kate laughing)
This really is a two person job.
It's like airlifting a meatball.
I don't recommend doing this with one-
Ready? Yep.
Go.
Look at that.
We stuck the landing.
(upbeat music)
Kate, I forgot something.
I forgot the basil.
It's not a parm without some basil.
Have some there, drop some over there.
Now it's perfect.
You can obviously make these sandwiches as big
or as small as you want.
I'm gonna serve these up.
(chime chiming)