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A recipe from Rome: Nicola Zamperetti shows Falstaff how to prepare the traditional Italian dish...
Stuffed Breast of Veal
The eternal classic of the Austrian Sunday roast gets a creative kick. For this recipe, we have enriched the stuffing with a little beef bone marrow.
For the veal breast
| Ingredients (5 servings) | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | piece(s) | veal breast, undercut to form a pocket |
| 200 | g | veal bones, chopped |
| 50 | g | butter |
| 10 | g | flour (optional) |
| 500 | ml | veal stock, hot |
For the filling
| Ingredients (5 servings) | ||
|---|---|---|
| 3 | slices | day-old bread, such as sourdough |
| 60 | g | beef bone marrow |
| 1/2 | onions, finely chopped | |
| 5 | stalk(s) | parsley, finely chopped |
| 2 | eggs, beaten | |
| salt | ||
| pepper | ||
| 1 | pinch(es) | freshly grated nutmeg |
- Ask your butcher to prepare the veal breast for you by undercutting it, i.e. to a pocket cut into it.
- Preheat the oven to 140°C.
- For the filling, remove the crusts from the bread, soak them in milk for a few minutes, then squeeze them well and cut into cubes.
- Heat the beef bone marrow in a pan, add the onion and brown briefly, then add the parsley. Mix in the bread cubes.
- Add the eggs and season with salt, pepper and nutmeg.
- Fill the the pocket in the veal breast. Do not use too much filling – it will expand during roasting. Sew up the opening or tie it closed with kitchen string.
- Put the veal bones in a roasting tin large enough for the breast and place the stuffed breast on the bed of bones.
- Pour in the hot stock. Roast the breast until the stuffing has reached a core temperature of 60°C (3–4 hours).
- Baste the meat with the pan juices regularly as it cooks.
- Switch the oven temperature to 220°C top heat (or heat the grill to high and place the veal under it) and let the breast colour for ten minutes. Remove from the oven and keep warm.
- To make the sauce, return the pan with the bones to the oven and reduce the pan juices a little.
- Strain the pan juices into a saucepan and stir in the cold butter.
- Add a little flour if desired and bring to the boil briefly to thicken the sauce.
- Remove any thread or string, then slice the veal breast and serve with the sauce.
