Saltimbocca Alla Michelle

[Muban]

Tonight I thought I would give one of my favourite dishes a go - Saltimbocca.

Ingredients

Veal Escalopes
Prosciutto
Sage leaves
Flour
Salt & Pepper
Butter
Olive Oil

Juice of half a lemon
Half a lemon sliced
Stock
Marsala wine (or any dry white wine you have)

Place the Escalopes inside cling flim or parchment and bash them out thin. Put a slice of Prosciutto and 2 sage leaves on each Escalope and bash out again gently so the ham sticks to the veal. Put a skewer through the Escalopes to secure them and then dust each side of the Escalopes with seasoned flour.

Melt olive oil and butter in a frying pan and fry the Escalope (ham side down) for 2 minutes, then turn it over and fry for another 2 minutes. Take the Escalopes out of the pan and keep warm. Pour the wine into the pan and allow to reduce a little. Then add the stock and lemon juice and reduce some more.

Plate up the Escalope, pour over a little of the reduction and add a few slices of lemon.

Tonight I had mine with seasoned potatoes and wilted spinach (I went a bit mad with it, I love spinach!!)

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[Blackstar]

Oooo that looks lurvely! I'd really like to try veal again, after watching kill it, cook it, eat it it's made me want try British veal my first experience was in Germany years ago they made the mistake of telling us the European methods of production, British methods are so much better.

[Jonny69]

Haven't done veal since they exposed how it was brought up. It's the only food I have ever given up on grounds of ethics, apart from battery chickens as of last week. Still not 100% convinced unfortunately, I'd have to see it for myself first.

Got a lovely piece of sirloin steak that will do this dish nicely though, been trying to decide what to do with it for a while and this looks perfect.

[Muban]

The way Veal has been farmed in Britain has been strictly regulated for a very long time now (can't remember now wh things changed). The main thing to check that it is British Veal.

[Blackstar]

Haven't done veal since they exposed how it was brought up. It's the only food I have ever given up on grounds of ethics, apart from battery chickens as of last week. Still not 100% convinced unfortunately, I'd have to see it for myself first.

Got a lovely piece of sirloin steak that will do this dish nicely though, been trying to decide what to do with it for a while and this looks perfect.
If you can Jonny, watch the veal episode of kill it, cook it, eat it. I would never have eaten veal at all until i watched this, but now my opinion of British raised veal has completely changed.
I personally don't have a problem with watching the slaughter sections but you may not wish to. The section on the keeping of animals and the conditions they are kept in comes before.