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In all my years living in the USA, I have never seen this dish on any restaurant menu. Growing up in Germany, it was very common and popular, served in many restaurants and homes. If I had to describe the type of food this is, I would say “sophisticated home cooking”. Full of flavor and texture, it is often served with rice.
I personally prefer it to be served with pasta (apparently, so did Escoffier – there are two recipes in his Le Guide Culinaire – “Blanquette de Veau a l’Ancienne” , as well as “Blanquette of Veal Breast with Celery root and Endive”, both served with pasta. Some folks like to add carrots when serving a blanquette, a practice to which many professionals object in order to keep the whole dish “blanc” (white). Well, usually I am in the “blanc” camp. However, my choice of pasta today has sabotaged that approach by sporting an impossible yellow color 😦 .
When raw, this pasta looked slightly more yellow than usual egg pasta, but I thought it would lose some of its excessive yellowness during the cooking process. Not so. On the contrary, it took on this neon yellow and I was ready to toss it and cook a less color-popping pasta instead. However, when I tried it, I was pleasantly surprised by the wonderful texture and taste of this abomination of food coloring. It had one of the best pasta tastes of any dried pasta I ever tasted. So, rather than tossing it, I ate it and enjoyed it very much. (Thank God I threw the packaging in the garbage and have no record of the brand, I also have never seen it before or since in any shop and therefore will not be able to buy it again 🙂
In the end, a delicious, classic, old-fashioned veal stew with a helping of not-so classic pasta 🙂
May the pasta Gods forgive me 🙂
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Preparation :
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- cut 2 lbs veal breast into 1 inch cubes, add 1 tsp fresh cracked black pepper and 2ea bay leaves, simmer in lightly salted water until tender (traditionally, one would also add mirepoix)
- drain the meat, discard the bay leaves, save the stock (you should have about 1/2 qt, if you have less, add water to make up for it)
- make a blond roux ( 1 ea tblsp butter, 1 ea tblsp a/p flour)
- add the strained veal stock, whisk until smooth, simmer for 4 minutes while stirring constamtly
- meanwhile, saute 10 ea med size botton mushrooms and 10 ea blanched silver onions in 1 tblsp butter
- cook and drain 8 oz pasta of your choice (substitute with rice or potatoes if you prefer)
- make a liaison of 1 ea large egg yolk and 1/2 cup heavy cream, mix well
- remove the sauce from the heat, whisk in the liaison, add 1 tsp lemon juice, check/adjust the seasoning
- to the sauce supreme, add the veal, mushrooms and silver onions, mix well
- Blanquette De Veau
- Blanquette De Veau
- Blanquette De Veau
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I bet it was good in spite of the colour of the pasta.
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Anneli,
it was absolutely delicious 🙂
Don’t judge a boo…. pasta by it’s cov…. color !
Cheers !
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Okay! But I draw the line at that fluorescent orange KD macaroni and cheese.
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Yeah, why is it so yellow? Just kidding! 😂 hehe. Looks appetizing.
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Chacha,
I’ll be forever judged by the color of my pasta 🙂
Cheers !
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Great classic. That pasta does indeed look very yellow. Perhaps it was made with egg yolks?
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Stefan,
I assume some turmeric found its way into the dough 🙂
Hans
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