Veal Marsala
What I actually did...
- 3 filetes of veal (ternera lechal) [scalopines] do you know; what they do to those animals? - - Yes, I do and there are worse things out there. Let's fix those first.
- flour, seasoned [salt & pepper]
- dredge (good word that) filets in flour - get a good complete coating but doesn't have to be thick
- mushrooms (300gr before cleaning [10 oz for the metrically impaired]), slice sauté shrooms in a little oil, eventually generating their liquids
- 1/2 c chicken stock (caldo), adding a little powdered veal stock to strengthen it (I didn't have beef stock)
- pour mushers' liquido into the stock
- 1/2 c Manzanilla (didn't have Marsala wine) into mushrooms on high heat;
let it boil down to almost nothing - pour the stock in; lower heat to barely simmer
Now, - large frying pan with 50/50 oil & butter; let butter foam and subside (but not burn)
- hi heat - fry filets to brown them (they don't have to cook through), one or 2 at a time unless you have a huge pan; set them aside
- 1/2 c Manzanilla to deglaze pan; boiling away the alcohol
- strain the resultant mixture into mushroom sauce ('cause it was a bit messy/chunky & had some burnt bits)
- pour the mushroom sauce back into the big pan;
put the filets into the pan too - add about 1/2 c chicken broth to get the level of liquid 1.2 way up the filets
- simmer vigorously for 5 minutes - turn once - while preparing the salad and some vermicelli to accompany it all
- remove filets to serving plate - cover with foil while doing finishing the sauce
- 2/3 c kwark (sour cream) and nata (regular thick cream) that I had in the fridge and had to use up;
- -add cream(s) to sauce gradually.
It is now no longer Veal Marsala but has become Veal something else;
- - maybe Veal Cream Manzanilla (Marsala).
- Pour sauce over filets (after removing the foil of course!)
Maybe 30 minutes, tops; which for me is record time for any sort of a meal.
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