Frıght night!
Mini monster burgers
■ Serves 8 ■ Prep 15 mins ■ Cook 15 mins
vegetable oil, for the baking tray
8 beef meatballs, squashed into flat patties
8 small seeded rolls, split
1 Little Gem lettuce
2 slices cheddar
¼ small cucumber (about 4cm long)
32 cocktail sticks
16 cornichons
16 pimento-stuffed green olives
ketchup, to serve
1 Heat the oven to 200C/180C fan/gas 6. Line a baking tray with foil and drizzle with a little oil. Turn the meatball patties in the oil, then bake for 15 mins.
2 Meanwhile, top the base of each roll with a lettuce leaf. Halve the cheese slices lengthways in a zig-zag to make ‘teeth’, then cut in half again crosswise so you have eight rows. Cut the cucumber into thin slices on the diagonal to make tongues. Push a cocktail stick into each of the cornichons, lengthways, to make the horns and halfway through the olives to create the effect of eyeballs on stalks.
Add a burger patty to each of the lettuce-lined buns, followed by a cucumber tongue, cheese teeth and drizzle of ketchup, then sandwich with
