Roast Veal – Recipe from a professional Chef
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Thomas Sixt is a chef, food photographer, cookbook author and blogger.
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Today I present you my roast veal recipe. The preparation is really easy, and YOU can let the stars rise in your kitchen with this dish.
Veal has a finer taste than beef. When shopping, look out for good quality – organic meat is recommended. I know, but… animal husbandry is what counts these days!
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1. Recipe Roast Veal
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Roast Veal
Cooked, photographed and written down by chef Thomas Sixt.
Preparing roast veal in the oven made easy. This recipe shows you how to braise it properly and all the tips from the professional kitchen. Good luck!
Ingredients
| Braised veal roast | ||
| 1 | kg | veal subshell (or nut, neck, chest) |
| Salt | ||
| Pepper | ||
| 1 | bunch | Soup vegetables |
| 2 | tbs | Sunflower oil |
| 2 | pc | shallots (optional) |
| 2 | pc | Garlic cloves (optional) |
| 1 | leaf | laurel |
| 400 | ml | dry red wine |
| 2 | glasses | veal stock |
| Vegetable broth (as needed) | ||
| 16 | pc | morels |
| 1-2 | tsp | starch (potato or corn starch) |
| 100 | g | butter |
| Bright sauce | ||
| 1 | pc | Shallot |
| 1 | tbs | butter |
| 2 | leafs | laurel |
| 1 | pc | Allspice |
| 1 | tsp | flour |
| 50 | ml | dry white wine |
| 250 | ml | Vegetable broth |
| 100 | ml | Cream |
| Potatoes | ||
| 10 | pc | Potatoes |
| 1/2 | bunch | Parsley |
| 50 | g | butter |
| 5 | pinches | nutmeg |
| Vegetable | ||
| 1 | pc | fennel |
| 2 | pc | courgettes |
| 4 | pc | sweet peppers |
| 1-2 | tsp | oliv oil |
| 25 | g | butter |
| Further ingredients | ||
| Salt (I use primal salt) | ||
| black pepper | ||
| Cayenne pepper | ||
| whole cane sugar | ||
| butter (cold) | ||
Equipment
Instruction
Braise roasts
Preheat oven at 180° C hot air.
Rinse veal roast under cold running water, dry.
Cut the soup vegetables into small pieces and prepare them for the sauce.
Peel the garlic and shallots.
Heat a roaster, season the meat with salt and pepper and fry on all sides with sunflower oil.
Then remove and place on a plate.
Place the vegetables in the roaster and roast them, then roast them further with tomato paste, deglaze with red wine and veal stock.
Put the meat back into the roaster and put it in the oven covered with liquid and lid.
Optionally you can fill up with vegetable stock!
Put the morels in cold water and soak them.
Prepare white sauce
Cut the shallot into fine cubes.
Sweat with butter, bay leaf and pimento in a pot for 10 minutes at moderate heat.
Add the flour and let it sweat briefly without colour.
Then deglaze with cold white wine and cold vegetable stock and bring to the boil.
Let the cream run into the strongly boiling sauce and bring it to the boil.
Leave to ripen for 15 minutes next to the stove.
Pass the sauce through a fine sieve and prepare to serve.
Potatoes
Wash and peel the potatoes, cut them into quarters and shape them with a small knife.
Boil the potatoes in boiling salted water until soft, drain them and place them in a pan with the finely chopped parsley and butter.
Vegetables
Wash and prepare vegetables.
Cut the fennel into eighths, halve the zucchini lengthwise and cut into slices, peel the peppers or cut them with skin into 2.5 cm pieces.
Fry the vegetables one by one, one by variety, in a pan with the olive oil and then place them in a large bowl or a second pot.
The vegetables should still have bite after frying!
Finalize dark sauce
Remove the soft braised meat from the roaster, cooking time guide 1-1.5 hours.
Place the meat in the oven at 80 °C or let it rest in the oven.
Pass the sauce through a fine hair sieve into an extra pot.
I put the cooked vegetables on the compost.
Boil the veal sauce. Remove the morels from the water and stir in the starch.
Pour the starch water slowly into the boiling sauce, bring to the boil and thicken the sauce.
Halve the morels to taste and then place them in the sauce.
Boil the sauce again for at least 10 minutes.
Serving
Preheat the plates.
Heat side dishes and sauces. Season vegetables and potatoes with salt, pepper, nutmeg and cayenne pepper.
Optionally season with some sugar.
Cut the meat into slices and place on top.
Add vegetables and potatoes.
Nappe veal sauce with morels over the meat.
Mix the light sauce with ice-cold butter until frothy and nappe some foam over the morels.
Quickly serve good appetite!
When will the roast be ready? Prick the meat with a thin fork or needle. If colourless meat juice comes out, the meat is cooked.
Recommendation: Switch off the oven and let the roast rest for a good 10 minutes before cutting.
This time I used the technical term “nappe” when describing the preparation. “Napping” means to cover the food with the sauce.
Courses
Cousine
Keyword
2. Calories and Nutritional Values
3. What Meat are you Buying for the Roast Veal
Several pieces of meat can be used for the fine braised beef:
- Leg of veal
- Saddle of veal
- Veal Neck
- Breast of veal
- Veal nut
- Knuckle of veal
The veal breast can be braised in a short time. The back is particularly fine, the knuckle a gourmet!
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4. Further Ingredients for the Roast
In addition to the meat, you need some other important ingredients to braise the meat and create a good sauce:
- Soup vegetables
- Tomato paste
- Veal stock
- Vegetable broth
- Salt, pepper, pimento
- Morels
- Cream
- Cornstarch
- Dry red wine
- Butter
You can prepare the veal stock yourself or buy a stock in a glass. Of course, home-made veal stock is always better and you can find the recipe for veal stock here.
Morels and calf are the finest combination!
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5. Side dishes for Roast Veal
In addition to the inserts presented below, you can also combine other selected inserts:
5.1 Vegetable side dishes
5.2 Supplements
- Gnocchi
- Napkin dumpling
- Spaetzle
- Thin Roesti and potato pancake
- Fried potatoes
- Baked potatoes
- Potato puree
- Potato gratin
Besides the side dishes presented below, potato gratin and ratatouille are my first choice. Such a dish was prepared by star chef Heinz Winkler.
Side dishes recommended by chef Thomas Sixt
6. Insider Tip for Morel Sauce
The strong veal sauce can be accompanied by a light, frothy sauce. This sauce is smart and quick to prepare and brings an extra magic to your plate.
You can then serve the morels either in veal stock or in the light sauce. Both taste simply amazing!
Morel scum or truffle scum… the light and airy fine sauces complement this dish and conjure up stars.
Tells us the cook Thomas Sixt
7. Proper Braising
Before we dedicate ourselves to the preparation, I would like to write you a few important lines about “proper stewing”. These are basic things of a classical preparation technique from the professional kitchen.
- It is best to use a large pot or a roaster with a lid.
- The meat should be fried first. Please spice it just before you put it in.
- After frying on all sides, remove the meat from the roaster.
- Next, fry the diced vegetables, roast them with tomato paste, then deglaze with red wine.
- Put the roasted meat back into the pot, cover with the veal stock and close the pot with the lid.
- Place in the oven and braise in the oven at 180°C.
This is how the “real stewing” works, as we cooks learn it in training. You can use this method of preparation for all subsequent dishes:
Professionally correct braising allows your meat to cook evenly and the result will certainly give you pleasure.
Proper braising: With lid and heat from all sides.
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