Mortadella Kebabs

These have been doing the rounds on the internet and to be honest it's an absolutely excellent idea.

10 minutes prep

20 minutes cook

Serves 4-6

Hugh Woodward

Ingredients

around 200g worth mortadella

50g pistachios

100g basil

40g parmesan, grated

100ml olive oil

to taste flaked sea salt

1 ball burrata

4 brioche hot dog buns

And that's because the only thing more delicious than mortadella is crispy grilled mortadella with pistachio pesto in a little sandwich with burrata. Even writing that makes us hungry.

Method

Take some wooden skewers and soak them for at least 30 minutes. Fire up your grill.

Fold up the mortadella and skewer it onto the wooden skewers. Check the heat of the grill - you want it to be low and steady, lots of white coals. Grill the skewers until crispy and golden.

In a food processor, blitz the pistachios, basil and parmesan until grainy (don't over blitz) then pour in the oil. Check for seasoning - you may want to add more salt or pepper.

Tear the burrata open to reveal the strachiatella inside.

Toast the buns on the BBQ, load with burrata, grilled mortadella and a drizzle of pesto; finish with a dusting of parmesan.