Ok, I have been asked by a few people for this recipie, and I dont blame em! When I am on my death bed, and they ask what I want for my last meal.....this is it!
Rouladen is nothing new, a german dish, with many different twists, but this is how my family has made them for generations. Usualy kept for a Chritmas meal, and the like (special occassions), if you batch them, they freeze well, and are some yummy comfort food on short order!
First of all, the ingredients:
1. Rouladen meat: any type will do, but most butchers know what to cut for you (I am using buffalo here)
2. baccon
3. pickles
4. dijon mustard
5. onions
6. salt/pepper
7. maggi (liquid seasoning avaliable at most deli's or safeway)
8. flour
9. olive oil
10. toothpicks
Start with your rouladen meat layed flat on your work surface, spread a nice layer of dijon mustard on them, then lay out your baccon slices 1/4 pickle slices and some sliced onions. Sprinkle a little salt and pepper, with a splash of maggi on each.
They should look like this-
Next, roll them up and pick them with as many toothpicks as you will need to hold them through the cooking proccess
A little salt and peper in some flour, and you can then bathe them in the flour for browning
I like to use a little bit of baccon in my olive oil to help creat some bad ass drippings for the gravy, but brown them up in olive oil until golden brown