Vitello tonnato

Total: 4 hr 20 min. | Active: 30 min.
lactose-free, gluten-free, Low Carb

Ingredients

for 8 person

Meat
1 litre water
3 dl white wine
lemon, use only the juice
carrot, chopped
onion, quartered
bay leaf
700 g roast veal (e.g. eye of round)
Sauce
hard-boiled eggs, halved
1 tin white tuna in brine (approx. 160 g), drained, broken into chunks
2 tbsp lemon juice
½ dl sunflower oil
anchovy fillet
1 tbsp capers
½ tsp salt
To serve
2 tbsp caper berry

How it's done

Meat

Place the water and all the other ingredients up to and including the bay leaf in a tall pan, bring to the boil and then reduce the heat. Add the meat, leave to infuse just below the boil for approx. 50 mins. Remove the pan from the heat, leave the meat to cool in the stock. Set aside 50 ml of the stock.

Sauce

To make a smooth sauce, puree the reserved stock with the eggs and all the other ingredients up to and including the capers, then season with salt.

To serve

Carve the meat very thinly across the grain, plate up. Top with the sauce and garnish with caper berries.

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