Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Veal Scallopini with Rapini

Believe it or not, Costco has really great veal scallopini.  The meat is so perfectly lean and thinly sliced.  And Falco LOVES veal - poor, little, baby cow... boo hoo.  It is delicious though - so light, with a mild meaty flavor.  It goes really well with a light lemon, caper sauce.  Easy on the butter, I'll use non-fat greek yogurt rather than mounting (that's what they call it when you finish a sauce like this one with butter) my light caper sauce with butter.  It will be creamy and lemony but not fatty.  Duh.  I'll make a quick saute of broccoli rabe to go with the veal and call it a day. I love this meal - it's quick and easy and is really satisfying, but not fatty or bulked out with a bunch of carbs. Also - it's pretty traditional to pound out the scallop before cooking - but the Costco cut is already thin.  I omit this process here - and it seems a bit fussy anyway. 
Veal Scallopini with Rapini
5 slices of veal scallopini (thinly sliced by your butcher, or yourself from the leg top/eye round cut)
1 lemon, juiced
handful capers
2 small spoonfuls of NF greek yogurt
1 bunch broccoli rabe
1 clove garlic, minced
2 big glug of chicken stock, separately
oil
salt
pep

Rapini:
Trim the ends off your broccoli rabe.  Get your garlic in a hot non-stick skillet for a brief moment - before the garlic starts to brown add your broccoli and toss about so that the oil and garlic coat the rapini.  Douse with your chicken stock and cover with a lid to steam for about 5 minutes.  Remove the lid so that the liquid can evaporate and serve.

Veal:
Dust your veal in a VERY light coating of flour-salt-pep.  See:

I'm currently out of pepper, go figure.  For another dish I could use red pepper flakes as a substitute - but the veal is so delicate, red pepper would be too strong.  Get you non-stick skillet over high heat and drizzle in enough oil to coat the bottom.  Cook your veal scallopini in batches for a minute or two on each side - just until they begin to brown, flip them over and repeat.  Stack the veal up on a serving plate.  Once you're done - pour off the oil, add in your capers, lemon juice and another glug of chicken stock.  Bubble for a minute, until the sauce reduces slightly.  Pull off the heat and swirl in your yogurt.  Pour over your veal stack and serve your broccoli rabe along side.  Buon Appetito.  ENJOY!

1 comment:

  1. It's a proven fact, the cuter the animal, the better it tastes. Italians don't really eat a rib-eye or a porterhouse steak. They generally eat light and fresh veal when they go for beef. Jen wasn't really familiar with cooking it, and she really knocked it out of the park. Exactly what anyone craving a veal piccata would die for.

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