MY RECIPES

Mediterranean Tuna Balls

A lovely recipe to make with your children, this is healthy spin
on Italian meatballs – it’ll have you hooked!

SERVES 4 | TIME 15 MINUTES

Ingredients

2x 160g cans of tuna in sunflower or olive oil, drained with some oil reserved
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Small handful of pine nuts
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Zest of 1 lemon
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Small handful parsley leaves, torn up
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50g fresh breadcrumbs
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1 egg, beaten
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250g pasta sauce
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4 Original Dutch Pancakes

Method

~1~
Break up the tuna in a bowl, tip in the pine nuts, lemon zest, parsley, breadcrumbs, and egg. Season and smoosh it around with your hands until combined, what fun!

~2~
Use your hands to roll the mix into 12 walnut-sized balls. Heat a little of the tuna oil in a large non-stick frying pan, then fry the tuna balls for five minutes, taking care to cook evenly, until golden. Drain onto kitchen paper.

~3~
Heat the pasta sauce, then toss together with the tuna balls. Heat the pancakes in the oven, placing a layer of foil between each one, for about 10 minutes. Spoon the mixture on top and roll. Mama Mia, that’s good!

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