With the beautiful Nouveau Beef we buy every year from our favourite farmer, I am able to make incredible "almost veal" scallopini with the most decadent and delicious gravy using homemade veal jus cubes. Definitely worth the effort! Valerie's Famous Veal Scallopini is a restaurant quality, absolutely scrumptious dish easy enough for a weeknight meal - impressive enough for company!
Course
Main
Cuisine
French Italian
Prep Time15minutes
Cook Time20minutes
Total Time35minutes
Servings6
AuthorValerie Lugonja
Ingredients
Mushrooms
1poundsliced or 500 grams sliced brown mushrooms
¼cupbutter
Ingredients for the Cutlets
6veal cutlets, thinly sliced
1cupflour
2teaspoonsgarlic powder
1teaspoonVegeta
½teaspoonsalt
½teaspoonfreshly ground black pepper
¼cupbutter
Ingredients for the Veal Gravy
1cupred wine
4veal stock cubes
1-2large clove of garlic, minced
½cupwater
¼cupor butter
Instructions
Mushrooms
Fry mushrooms over medium high heat in heavy skillet 20-30 minutes, turning every 8 minutes, until completely caramelized
Remove from pan; set aside
Do not clean pan; it will be used to fry cutlets
Instructions for the Cutlets
Combine flour, garlic powder, Vegeta, salt and pepper in dredging pan
Place each cutlet between plastic or parchment paper; pound with mallet until paper thin
Dredge each cutlet in seasoned flour; melt butter into pan used to fry mushrooms
Fry one or two cutlets at a time at medium high heat, two to three minutes per side, until golden (do not over cook)
Set aside cutlets; pan will be used to make the gravy
Instructions for the Veal Gravy
Preheat oven to 400 F; rack in middle
Keeping pan at medium high, deglaze with red wine scraping bits of bottom of pan until smooth
Melt frozen veal stock cubes into wine; add mushrooms back to pan
Stir continuously, adding water as needed to keep gravy at desired consistency
Just prior to service, melt butter into gravy; place cutlets into oven proof serving dish
Pour gravy over cutlets; place in oven to heat through for 5 minutes, until bubbly
Serve immediately
Recipe Notes
The Veal Jus Cubes take time, but then you have them for at least a year with so much you can do with them; they are key to this recipe; however, you can cheat and likely get a nice family meal by adding a package of Knorr's Mushroom gravy mix or an International Veal Jus mix. That is kind of blasphemous, yet better than doing an unwrap and zap meal! Then, make the Veal Jus Cubes and note the difference. So healthy and good for you, flavour packed and completely made with real food. A big eater will have 2, but one scallopini can be considered a serving