Beths Veal Vermouth With Mushrooms Recipes

BETH'S VEAL VERMOUTH WITH MUSHROOMS

Steps:

• Flatten veal to 1/4 of an inch thick.
• Cut into 2 inch squares and coat with flour.
• Melt butter in a skillet and sauté veal pieces, a little at a time, until golden brown on both sides.
• Return all meat and the garlic to the skillet and heap mushrooms on top.
• Sprinkle with salt, pepper, and lemon juice. Pour on vermouth.
• Cover and cook over low heat for 20 minutes or until veal is fork tender.
• Add more vermouth if needed.
• Sprinkle with parsley just before serving.

VEAL SCALLOPS IN VERMOUTH

Steps:

• Flatten meat with a wooden mallet or meat cleaver until it is very thin.
• Cut into serving pieces.
• Sprinkle with salt and pepper and dredge with flour.
• Heat butter and salad oil in a skillet.
• Add chopped onion.
• Add veal scallops and brown lightly on both sides.
• Add sweet vermouth.
• Cover skillet and simmer about 5 minutes.
• Stir in tomato paste, mace and enough boiling water to make a smooth thick sauce.
• Heat well and serve with lemon quarters, rice pilaf, garlic string beans or creamed spinach.

MUSHROOMS IN VERMOUTH

Steps:

• Place mushrooms in a large jar with a tight fitting lid.
• Process the remaining ingredients, except salt, in a blender until smooth.
• Pour mixture over mushrooms. Season to taste with salt.
• Seal jar and refrigerate 1-2 days for flavors to develop.

MEDALLIONS OF VEAL WITH WILD MOREL MUSHROOMS

Steps:

• Preparing the Morels
• Place the morels in a large bowl filled with cold water.
• Soak for 10 minutes.
• Remove the morels from the water, reserving both the mushrooms and the water.
• Strain the water through a coffee filter or cheesecloth to remove any sand.
• Cut off the stems of the morels and combine with the strained mushroom water.
• Bring to a boil and cook until the liquid has reduced to 2 tablespoons.
• Rub the morel caps with your fingers; if you feel any sand, wash again in cold water.
• Cut the morel caps lengthwise into halves.
• Sauté the shallots in 1 tablespoon butter until soft.
• Add the morels, their reduced cooking juices and the Madeira and cook, covered, over medium heat, for 6 to 7 minutes, until plump.
• Remove from the heat and keep warm.
• Preparing the Veal
• Dust the veal medallions in flour, shaking off the excess.
• In a large sauté pan, heat 1 tablespoon of butter and the oil until sizzling.
• Sauté the veal on bath sides until well browned (Do not crowd the pan with veal. Look in two batches if necessary).
• Remove the medallions from the pan and keep warm.
• Pour off the fat from the pan and deglaze with the vermouth.
• Add the morels and Jus de Veau to the pan and bring to boil.
• Cook to reduce the liquid slightly.
• Season with salt and pepper.
• Return the veal medallions to the pan to heat.
• Swirl the remaining 1 tablespoon of butter into the sauce to finish.
• Arrange the veal medallions on 4 large, heated dinner plates.
• Ladle the sauce and a portion of morels over each serving of veal.

VEAL AND MUSHROOM STEW

Steps:

• Trim veal. In a large plastic bag, shake the veal with flour to coat.
• In a large shallow Dutch oven, heat oil over med high heat, then brown veal in batches and transfer to slow cooker.
• Drain fat from Dutch oven and add 1 tbsp of butter. Fry onions, leeks, garlic and lay leaf over med heat, stirring occasionally, until onion is softened (about 5 minutes).
• Add 1/2 tsp each of the salt and pepper, all the thyme and nutmeg. Stir in stock and bring to a boil, scraping up any brown bits from the bottom of the pan.
• Pour over veal in slow cooker, then cover and cook on high for 4 to 5 hours until veal is tender.
• In a large skillet, heat remaining butter over med high heat, then saute all the mushrooms and remaining salt and pepper until lightly browned (about 10 minutes).
• Add to slow cooker along with lemon juice, then cover and cook on high for 15 minutes.Discard bay leaf and stir in cream and parsley, then serve!