Veal Paillard With Lemon Sauce Haricot Verts Salad And Mashed Red Potatoes Recipes

GENOVESE RED SAUCE

Steps:

• Heat the EVOO in a Dutch oven over medium heat. Add the pancetta and render until it begins to crisp, then add the ham and stir a minute or 2 more. Add the veal and break it up into fine crumbles, until lightly brown. Then add the garlic, bay leaf and onions, and season with salt and pepper and a little nutmeg. Let the onions cook, partially covered, for a few minutes, then stir in the tomato paste until fragrant. Add the wine and heat. Then add the milk, reduce the heat to low and simmer gently 3 hours. Add a little stock or water whenever the sauce gets too thick, up to 2 cups over the course of the cooking time. Cool and refrigerate or freeze for make-ahead meal.
• To serve, boil the pasta in salted water to al dente; reserve 1 cup starchy cooking water just before draining. Add to the sauce, toss with the pasta and some cheese and serve in shallow bowls.

LEEK, RED ONION, AND HARICOT VERT SALAD WITH VEAL STOCK VINAIGRETTE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 300°F.
• Trim leeks and halve lengthwise. Rinse leeks well and in an ovenproof skillet arrange, cut sides down. Cut onions into 1/2-inch-thick slices and arrange over leeks. Add water and bring to a boil over high heat. Braise leeks and onions, covered, in middle of oven until very tender, about 1‚ hours. Cool leeks and onions to room temperature. Leeks and onions may be braised 1 day ahead and chilled, covered. Bring leeks and onions to room temperature before proceeding.
• Have ready a bowl of ice and cold water. Trim haricots verts and in a saucepan of heavily salted boiling water cook until completely tender, about 5 minutes. With a slotted spoon transfer beans to ice water to stop cooking and drain well, patting dry. Beans may be cooked 1 day ahead and chilled, covered. Bring beans to room temperature before serving.
• In a small bowl combine shallot and vinegar. Let mixture stand 20 minutes. Whisk in veal stock, mustard, and salt and pepper to taste and whisk in oil in a slow stream until emulsified.
• Arrange vegetables on a platter and drizzle with vinaigrette.

LEMON AND VEAL PARCEL

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 200 degrees F.
• Lemon preparations: Combine the water and sugar in a pot, and bring to a boil. Remove the skin from 6 lemons and add to pot. Cook lemon peels for 10 minutes. Slice the other lemon with a slicing machine to make the thin lemon chips. Boil these lemon chips for 10 seconds and cool in ice water. Place the slices on a sheet of foil, and sprinkle powder sugar on top. Bake slices in a 200 degree F oven for 1 hour. To prepare the lemon leaves, simply fry the lemon leaves for 1 minutes. With the 6 peeled lemons, remove the segments using a knife.
• Veal preparations: Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
• Clean the veal fillet, and cut into 4 portions. First sear each fillet in a hot pan, and then layer each with Parma ham, basil leaves, lemon skins, and 1/4 of the pork meat. Roll the fillet over the filling and wrap tightly. Cook the veal fillets in oven for 10 minutes.
• Cut all of the remaining vegetables, except the cherry tomatoes, into long stick shapes. Quickly fry the vegetable, and drain excess oil. Cook the cherry tomatoes with garlic and olive oil for 5 minutes.
• To assemble: Place the veal fillets in the center of plate. Add the vegetables and cherry tomatoes on the side. Surround plate with lemon segments, and place dried lemon slices on to of veal with lemon leaves. Sprinkle with a little olive oil and serve hot.

POTATOES AND HARICOTS VERTS WITH VINAIGRETTE

Steps:

• Whisk together vinegar, mustard, pepper, sugar, and 1 teaspoon salt in a small bowl. Add oil in a slow stream, whisking until emulsified.
• Quarter potatoes, then cover with cold water by 1 inch in a 4- to 5-quart pot and bring to a boil with remaining teaspoon salt. Reduce heat and simmer, uncovered, until potatoes are tender, 8 to 10 minutes. Drain, then transfer hot potatoes to a large bowl and toss with onion and all but 1/4 cup vinaigrette. Cool to room temperature, about 1 hour.
• While potatoes cool, cook green beans in a 3-quart saucepan of boiling salted water, uncovered, until crisp-tender, 3 to 4 minutes, then drain and transfer to a bowl of ice water to stop cooking. Let stand 2 minutes. Drain and pat dry.
• Just before serving, toss potato mixture with green beans, celery, parsley, and remaining 1/4 cup vinaigrette.

NOLA'S MASHED RED POTATOES

Steps:

• In a saucepan cover unpeeled potatoes with cold water and bring to a boil. Cook just until tender -- do not overcook or potatoes will be watery. Drain well, return pan with potatoes to low heat and shake to dry. Squeeze in garlic cloves, cream, butter, and salt and pepper to taste. Mash together with a potato masher until ingredients are combined but potatoes are still lumpy.