Baking with Kids
Halloween Meatball Mummies
Ingredients
- For the pizza dough:
- 250g strong flour
- A pinch of salt
- 4g dried yeast
- 160ml lukewarm water
- 1 tsp caster sugar
- 2 tbsp Kerrygold Pure Irish Unsalted Butter
- 900g minced beef
- Salt & pepper
- 3 tbsp melted Kerrygold Pure Irish Unsalted Butter
- 1 tbsp chopped fresh rosemary
- Black olives
- White cheddar
Directions
Shane Smith's Meatball Mummies recipe makes 8.
- Preheat the oven to 180C fan.
- For the meatballs, add the minced beef, salt & pepper, melted Kerrygold Unsalted Butter and chopped herbs into a large bowl.
- Mix well and divide into 24 ball and leave to chill for 25 minutes.
- The meatballs can be cooked in a pan with some oil and Kerrygold Butter for added flavour or else they can be oven baked. If cooking in the oven, pop the meatballs onto a lined baking tray and bake for 20 minutes.
- Once cooked, remove and chill until needed.
- For the pizza dough, place the yeast, water and sugar in a bowl and leave to sit for 5 minutes.
- Add this mix to the flour, salt and melted Kerrygold Unsalted Butter and knead together for 10 minutes until a smooth elastic dough is formed.
- Place this in a greased bowl and cover with a kitchen cloth and leave somewhere warm to prove until doubled in size- approx. 45 minutes.
- Once doubled in size, knock back to remove the air and roll the dough out on a floured work surface.
- Preheat the oven to 180C fan.
- Pop three of the cooked meatballs onto a wooden skewer and cut strips of the pizza dough and wrap this around the meatballs. Carefully remove from the skewer and onto a line baking tray. Continue this until all eight are completed.
- Brush the pizza dough strips with melted Kerrygold Unsalted Butter and place in the center of the oven and bake for 20minutes or until the pizza dough is golden brown.
- While the meatballs are baking, start making the mummies' eyes by cutting a small circle of white cheddar and a smaller olive circle and placing the olive in the middle of the cheddar disc.
- Once the mummies are baked, remove from the oven and allow to cool slightly. Add the eyes and serve with a side of tomato marinara sauce.
- The pizza dough can be made the day before and left in the fridge overnight.
- You can use falafels instead of meat if you wish.
