(Braised veal round - Traditional recipe from Sicily)

800 g (1 3/4 lb) veal in a slice
150 g (5 1/2 oz) minced veal
200 g (7 oz) fresh sausage
100 g (3 1/2 oz) bacon, sliced
55 g (2 oz) fresh ewe's cheese
2 fresh young onions, chopped
1 garlic clove, chopped
3 hard-boiled eggs
250 ml (8 fl oz - 1C) red wine
1 l (35 fl oz - 4C) meat stock
4 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
Salt
Pepper, if you like

Time:
preparation: 45 minutes
cooking: about half an hour
Difficulty:
medium difficulty recipe
Nutrition Facts (amount per serving):
Calories: 481 (kCal) - 2012 (kJ)
Protein: 48.9 (g)
Total fat: 29.7 (g)
Total carbohydrate: 1.4 (g)
Sugars: 1.4 (g)

A tasty rolled roast veal filled with bacon, fresh sausage, fresh ewe's cheese and aromatic herbs.
Remove peel from sausage and crumble its meat with a fork. Cut ewe's cheese into flakes. In a large saucepan pour in extra virgin olive oil together with onions and fry lightly them without browning. Add minced veal and crumbled sausage and cook for few minutes in order to flavour all the ingredients. Remove the mixture from the pan with a skimming ladle and put apart.
Put the slice of veal on the work surface. If it is too thick, cut it crossways to enlarge. Beat meat with a meat pounder to flatten it. Season to taste with salt. Arrange bacon slices, ewe's cheese, garlic and meat mixture on the veal slice. Shell hard-boiled eggs and cut crossways; put egg slices on the stuffing. Season to taste with salt. Roll the veal slice up on itself tightly and bind with kitchen string at one-inch intervals.
Put your rolled veal in the same pan in which you have flavoured sausage and minced veal and let it fry lightly in the olive oil. Pour in red wine, let it evaporate partially and then add boiling meat stock. Keep on cooking on a medium heat, half-covered, until meat is soft. Remember to turn rolled meat now and then. Cooking time is about an hour. Add other meat stock, if necessary.
Let rolled roast veal cool lightly and then cut crossways. Arrange slices on a serving platter and serve with the warm cooking juices.

Note

- You can accompany this dish with a seasonal green salad or potatoes.
- You can vary the stuffing according to your taste. You coud substitute bacon with raw ham; you could add peas; you could substitute garlic with aromatic herbs.

What's the right wine?

Corvo Rosso (red Sicilian wine).

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