Meatball Hero Hoagie

Hello fellow reader!

Sooo once again it's sandwich time! This time one of my favorites from the USA, I have never found any that come close to the ones in the US, where you have the rich tomato sauce, big meatballs with fresh herbs in, covered in mozzarella and freshly toasted brioche buns!

mmm so good!

In Sweden we use meatballs for other things or maybe "rödbetsallad" and meatballs, lettuce on a sandwich. It's good but it can't compare!

So first we have the bun, a very important part since you want a fluffy good bun that you can toast that also won't soak up all the juices and become soggy and fall apart. For this I love brioche buns, they are amazing for burgers, subs, hoagies, hot dog buns and so on!

They take some time to make though, I don't have the exact measurements but. It involves, letting dough rise for 2 hours, then pressing the air out, rising for 1 more hour, then forming your buns/hoagies/subs whatever and then rising for another hour and then 20 minutes in the oven after being coated with egg wash! Time consuming, yes but well worth it! Most of the time is waiting anyway, not active work...

The result anyway is this:

Probably the best damn bread I have ever made...

Then we come to making what goes into the bun, tomato sauce:

Canned whole tomatoes

Fresh parsley

Dried oregano,

some sugar,

salt,

pepper, 

Onion,

Garlic

And some more stuff I can't remember, have the recipe of everything if anyone want em!

Meatballs:

400g minced meat 50% pork, 50% beef.

Parsley, 

Onions,

Garlic,

Salt,

Pepper,

breadcrumbs,

1 egg,

1 dl of grated parmesan

All I can remember :)

Mix the mince and put everything for the sauce into a pan as shown in the picture and let sauce simmer while you brown the meatballs. (Large meatballs, not the puny Swedish kind!)

When meatballs are browned add the sauce to them and let simmer for about 1 hour to really get the flavors combined!

So good!

While that is cooking, you can make.. Tater tots! 2 baked potatoes and 2 cloves of garlic go into the oven at 200 degrees c. Let them stay there for 40 minutes, then take em out and let cool. Grate the potatoes roughly and mix with garlic that should be "mushable" then add some salt, pepper, Parmesan and about 1 tbsp of flour. And mix.

Then form the mixture into this: 

Heat some frying oil anykind to about 180 c for that golden crispy loveliness and add the tater tots a few at a time for about 4 minutes each.

While that is going, heat oven to 200 degrees. Cut your hoagies up and toast them golden in a pan on the stove.

Add meatballs (As little sauce as possible)

And cover in Mozzarella, as shown:

Pop into oven and take em out when cheese has melted like so:

Toast lid of bread while cheese is melting.

hohooo! So good!

Top of with tomato sauce to taste, and put lid on and serve with tator tots and hot sauce!

Sunday luxury meal, was so juicy and good. And such fresh flavors in the actual sauce and meatballs!

Will be making, again and again... My new favorite, but I'm so fickle that I will probably have a new one by the end of the week..

//Stay full my friends!