Anna Maria's Rouladen

Name: Anna Maria's Rouladen
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: German, European
Ingredients: 4 slices bacon; 4 slices thin slices beef sirloin, just over 1 pound, ask the butcher to cut the meat 1/4 inch thick; 2 Tbsps butter, cut into pieces; 473 milliliters good quality chicken stock, available on the soup aisle; 4 dill pickle spears; 4 Tbsps chopped flat-leaf parsley, a couple of handfuls; 2 Tbsps all-purpose flour; 4 teaspoons prepared Dijon style mustard; 2 Tbsps extra-virgin olive oil, 2 turns of the pan; 4 servings Salt and pepper; 59 milliliters sour cream; 1 package dumpling mix, (recommended: Panni brand) available on International Foods aisle; 4 servings Toothpicks or kitchen twine

The recipe Anna Maria's Rouladen could satisfy your European craving in about 30 minutes. One portion of this dish contains about 7g of protein, 26g of fat, and a total of 295 calories. This recipe covers 9% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. This recipe serves 4. A mixture of salt and pepper, mustard, dill pickle spears, and a handful of other ingredients are all it takes to make this recipe so scrumptious.

Instructions

Bring a pot of salted water to a boil. Form several large balls, 2 to 3 inches thick, of dumpling mix.

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Water

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Add to the boiling water then reduce heat and simmer 15 minutes.

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Water

Place bacon in a skillet over medium heat and render fat by cooking bacon about 3 minutes. As edges just begin to crisp, remove bacon from the skillet and transfer to paper towels to drain.

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Bacon

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Season slices of sirloin with salt and pepper.

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Salt And Pepper

Porterhouse Steak

Spread each slice of meat with a rounded spoonful of mustard. Top mustard with a generous scatter of chopped parsley. Top seasoned and mustard-coated meat with a slice of bacon and a dill pickle spear each.

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Dill Pickles

Mustard

Parsley

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Bacon

Meat

Place the bacon and pickle off center closer to 1 edge of the meat than the other.

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Pickles

Bacon

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Roll the steaks around the filling and secure with toothpicks or kitchen twine.

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Steak

Roll

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Heat a deep skillet over medium high heat.

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Add oil, 2 turns of the pan, then meat rolls. Cook meat 2 to 3 minutes, then give it a quarter turn. Cook meat a total of 10 to 12 minutes, then transfer to a plate.

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Roll

Meat

Cooking Oil

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Add butter to the meat pot and melt.

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Butter

Meat

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Pot

Add flour to the butter and whisk together, cooking 2 minutes.

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Butter

All Purpose Flour

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Whisk

Add chicken stock to the flour and butter and scrape up pan drippings. Season with salt and pepper. Stir in sour cream and remove from heat.

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Salt And Pepper

Chicken Stock

Sour Cream

Butter

All Purpose Flour

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Remove toothpicks or twine from meat. Set meat roll and large dumpling on a dinner plate and cover with sour cream gravy. Quick sauteed cabbage makes a simple side dish, see recipe below.

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Cabbage