Meat Bun

Servings: 38 meat buns w/out sauce, & 28 meat buns w/ sauce

Ingredients:

Meat

• 5 lbs. of ground beef
• 3 medium sized onions
• 8-10 garlic cloves
• 4 cups water
• 2 teaspoon red chili powder
• 1 and 1/2 teaspoon cumin powder
• 1 and 1/2 teaspoon coriander powder
• 2 pinch clove powder
• 3-4 teaspoon sea salt
• 2 and 1/2 tablespoon ground ginger

For meat filling (no sauce)

• 1/2 of the ground beef mixture that was made with above ingredients
• 2 bunches of green onion
• 3 hot green chilles
• 1/2 cup cilantro
• 1/3 cup mint leaves
• 350 grams paneer (optional)
• 7 potatoes (random sizes)

For meat filling (with sauce)

• 1/2 of the ground beef mixture
• 400 grams of mozzarella cheese
• 680 mL of pasta sauce

Directions:

Put the ground beef in a pot with the onions (cut into large chunks), water and garlic cloves on medium heat. Let it cook until all the water has evaporated. Turn off the heat, and set it aside and wait for it to cool.

Then take all the spices and ground ginger and mix it into the meat.

Half of this cooked meat will be for the dry buns and the other half for the saucey buns. So separate it into two separate bowls.

For the first type of bun, chop the green onions into small pieces, as well as the hot green chili, and chop the cilantro and mint leaves. Mix these with the meat.
Optional: cut the paneer into small cubes and also mix it in.

Take the potatoes boil them, then peel them, and then cut them into small cubes.

Mix everything.

For the second type of bun, add the shredded cheese and sauce to the other bowl of meat.

For the dough preparation see this recipe: Naan Bread

Same steps for both types of buns:

Make small balls like in this picture, from of the dough. Then flatten it out.

Take one and 1/2 tablespoon of whichever mixture, and make a pouch (as seen in picture).



















Place the filled balls on a baking tray with parchment paper.

For the meat buns w/ no sauce, turn the oven on at 360 degrees, put the tray on the middle rack for about 30-35 minutes.

For the sauce and cheese ones, you bake for 30-35 minutes but at 375 degrees. And I only glazed them with a beat egg.
Also for the buns with sauce, make the balls a bit flat, so cheese and sauce have more room to expand while it is cooking in the oven. If the cheese and sauce ooze out from the bun then don't worry, you always can put it back in the cooked bun pocket by using a small spoon.

these are the buns with sauce, and
you can see they are a bit flattened before
putting them in the oven.

will look like that from the bottom when its cooked.