Hearty Beef Rouladen Recipes

BEEF ROULADEN

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325°F.
• Layout beef slices and gently pound using a meat tenderizer.
• Spread a thin layer of mustard over each slice and season with pepper.
• Lay bacon over each slice. Top with onions and a dill pickle.
• Roll each Rouladen jelly-roll style and secure with toothpicks.
• Heat butter in a pan and brown each roll. Place in a roasting dish, add broth, canned mushrooms and ¼ cup pickle juice (and extra onions if desired). Roast 90-120 minutes or until fork-tender.

GERMAN BEEF ROULADEN

Steps:

• Spread 1/2 tablespoon mustard over one side of each piece of meat. Sprinkle the onion, paprika, salt, and pepper evenly over the steaks. Lay one slice of bacon on each piece. Roll the steaks jelly-roll style and secure with toothpicks.
• Heat the canola oil in a skillet over medium heat. Cook meat on all sides until browned. Add the beef broth and water; bring to a boil. Reduce heat to medium low; cover and simmer until tender, about 30 minutes.
• Remove the meat rolls. Strain the broth mixture and return liquid to the skillet. Whisk together the cornstarch and 1 cup of water. Slowly pour the cornstarch slurry into the skillet, stirring continually until the sauce has thickened, 2 to 3 minutes. Stir in the sour cream. Return rolls to the sauce; serve immediately.

TRADITIONAL BEEF ROULADEN

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F.
• Place each top round slice between wax paper and pound to tenderize; add salt and pepper and generously spread each with the spicy mustard.
• On the wide part of each piece of meat, place about 5 pieces of the dill pickle spears, some onion and a heaping tablespoon of the browned bacon. Fold in the edges and roll up like a burrito.
• Carefully brown the rolls on all sides in a frying pan. Place in a large pot with the beef stock.
• Put a slice of the raw potatoes between each rolled roulade, making sure the pot is packed tight; the potato slices will hold the roulade together without having to use a string. Cover and bake for about 45 minutes.
• Make your gravy from the drippings by mixing the flour and butter and adding it slowly into the beef stock until it reaches the desired consistency. Serve with red cabbage and potatoes or spaetzle. You can also serve the potatoes that have soaked up all the delicious juices and held together the rouladen.

CHEF JOHN'S BEEF ROULADEN

Steps:

• Place slices of beef on a work surface, Season both sides with kosher salt and pepper. Spread one side with mustard. Place bacon strips on the mustard and sprinkle with paprika. Arrange onion slices cross-wise on the beef. Then evenly space 3 pickle slices across each slice of beef. Keep about an inch of the narrowest end of the beef slice free of toppings to facilitate rolling it up.
• Roll each slice of meat, beginning from the wider of the two short ends, working to keep all ingredients inside the roll. Rolls should be nice and tight. Secure the rolls (seam side down) with 3 loops of butcher's twine, one in the middle and one at each end. Trim excess string.
• Heat vegetable oil over medium-high heat in a large saucepan. Cook beef, turning and browning well on all sides, about 8 minutes. Remove meat from pan. Reduce heat to medium-low. Melt butter in the pan; whisk in the flour, cooking for about 1 minute. Pour in cold beef broth and whisk vigorously to combine. Raise heat to medium-high and simmer until sauce begins to thicken, about 1 minute.
• Transfer beef rolls to pan along with accumulated juices. Reduce heat to very low. Simmer gently, covered, turning rolls every 20 minutes or so, until beef is tender, about 1 1/2 hours. When the tip of a sharp knife can easily be inserted into the beef roll, the meat is done.
• Transfer meat to dish to allow it to rest. Raise heat to high and bring cooking liquid to a simmer to thicken slightly to make a gravy, about 1 minute. Serve rouladen with gravy.

HEARTY BEEF ROULADEN

Steps:

• In a large skillet, saute onions in 2 tablespoons of oil until tender; remove with a slotted spoon and set aside., Pound steaks to 1/4-in. thickness; sprinkle with salt and pepper. Spread with mustard and top with onions. Place a pickle at one short end and a bacon strip lengthwise on top. Roll up jelly-roll style; secure with toothpicks. Set aside 1 tablespoon flour for thickening. Coat the roll-ups with remaining flour., In the same skillet, cook roll-ups in remaining oil over medium heat until browned on all sides. Add the water, bouillon, thyme and bay leaf. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 30 minutes or until meat is tender., Remove roll-ups and keep warm. Combine butter and reserved flour; add to the pan juices. Bring to a boil; cook and stir for 2 minutes or until thickened. Discard bay leaf and toothpicks. Serve beef and gravy with noodles.

BEEF ROULADEN

Steps:

• Lightly spread mustard on each slice of steak; sprinkle with salt and pepper. Place 1 bacon strip and a few onion wedges on each slice; roll up; secure with toothpicks. , In a large skillet, brown beef in oil until no longer pink; drain. Add broth; bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 1-1/2 hours or until meat is tender. , Remove meat and keep warm. Combine flour and water until smooth; gradually stir into broth. Bring to a boil, stirring constantly until thickened and bubbly. Remove toothpicks. Return beef to gravy; heat through. Sprinkle with parsley if desired.

EASY GERMAN BEEF ROULADE

Steps:

• With meat mallet or rolling pin, flatten meat to about a 10x8 rectangle.
• Spread with mustard.
• In large skillet on medium high heat, cook bacon and onion til bacon is crisp.
• Pour off fat reserving 1/4 cup in skillet.
• Spread bacon mix over meat.
• Sprinkle pickle on top.
• Roll up meat from short end and secure with string or turkey pins.
• Place meat roll in skillet over medium high heat in reserved bacon fat and brown on all sides.
• Remove to 13x9 baking dish.
• Stir flour into fat in skillet and blend until smooth, gradually stirring in beef broth.
• Cook and stir over medium heat until thickened.
• Pour sauce over beef roll.
• Cover and bake at 325 degrees for 1 1/2 hours or until done.
• Let stand 10 minutes before slicing.
• Skim fat from sauce, strain and serve with meat.

GERMAN BEEF ROLL-UPS ROULADEN

Steps:

• Flatten out the flank steaks with a meat pounder and spread mustard on the "inside" of the meat.
• Dice 1 onion, the bacon and the pickles and distribute even amounts onto your roll up meat.
• season well with salt, pepper and paprika powder.
• Roll up meat from the short side up and secure edge with either tooth picks or some yarn/thread.
• spread more mustard on the outside of roll ups and season some more
• Heat oil in a heavy broiler pan and brown roll ups from all sides.
• ad 1 1/2 cups of broth to the broiler as well as the left over 3 onions cut into quarters INCLUDING the brown skins (very important, this will give color to the gravy).
• cover your boiler pan and broil in the oven at 350 F for 2-3 hours (uncover for the last 1/2 hour) or until meat is tender. ad broth if needed.
• take rouladen out of pan and set aside. Strain the liquid into sauce pan and reduce until thickened.
• Serve with potato dumplings and red cabbage.