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Veau Prince Orloff

Cover-roasted veal carved and reassembled with a purée of butter-braised onions and rice folded with mushroom duxelles between the slices, then masked in a Mornay sauce made from its own juices and browned in the oven.

  • Yield6 to 8 servings
  • Hands-on1 h 35 min
  • Total3 h 5 min
  • Difficulty

Ingredients

Veal

  • 1.6 kgboneless veal roast, tied
  • 3 tbspneutral cooking oil, for browning
  • 60 gcarrots, sliced
  • 60 gonions, sliced
  • 45 gunsalted butter
  • ½ tspsalt
  • 1 leafbay leaf
  • ½ tspdried thyme
  • 1 sheetfresh pork fatback or suet, large enough to cover the roast

Soubise

  • 50 glong-grain white rice
  • 60 gunsalted butter
  • 500 gyellow onions, thinly sliced
  • ½ tspsalt

Duxelles

  • 225 gbutton mushrooms, finely diced
  • 30 gunsalted butter
  • to tastesalt and pepper

Velouté and Mornay

  • 60 gunsalted butter
  • 40 gall-purpose flour (5 tbsp)
  • 240 mlveal roasting juices, degreased
  • 420 mlwhole milk, heated
  • 120 mlheavy cream
  • to tastesalt, white pepper and nutmeg
  • 50 gSwiss cheese (Gruyère or Emmental), grated
  • 30 gunsalted butter, melted, plus a little for the platter

Contains

  • Gluten
  • Dairy
  • Celery
  • Wheat
  • Rice
  • Nightshades (any)
  • Tomato
  • Onion family (any)
  • Onion
  • Garlic
  • Cabbage family (any)
  • Carrot
  • Thyme
  • Parsley
  • Bay leaf
  • Black and white pepper
  • Mushrooms (any)
  • Button, cremini and portobello
  • All mammal meat (alpha-gal)
  • Beef and veal
  • Pork
  • Lactose
  • FODMAPs (any)

Taste

  • Sweet
  • Salty
  • Umami / savory
  • Richness / fat
  • Herbal / fresh
  • Aromatic spice

Texture

  • Creamy
  • Tender-braised

Equipment

  • Oven
  • Stovetop
  • Blender
  • Probe thermometer
  • Dutch oven

Season

  • Fall
  • Winter

Occasion

  • Weekend project
  • Entertaining
  • Holiday

Effort

  • Over 90 min active
  • Over 3 hours total
  • Difficulty 4
  • Needs advance prep
  • Make-ahead friendly

Nutrition

  • Calories: high
  • Protein: high
  • Carbs: low
  • Fat: high
  • Fiber: low
  • Sodium: moderate

Budget

  • Budget: high

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