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vitello tonnato

Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 1 hour
Total Time 1 hour 20 minutes
Servings: 4 servings
Course: entrées
Cuisine: Italian

Ingredients
  

the veal
  • 800 g veal from the hip
  • 250 g celeriac chopped
  • 3 clove
  • 2 carrot chopped
  • 2 onion quartered
  • 1 clove garlic cut in half
  • 1 bay leaf
  • salt
  • pepper freshly ground
the sauce
  • 125 ml olive oil extra virgin
  • 125 g tinned tuna in brine not oil
  • 50 ml veal stock
  • 2 teaspoons marjoram fresh
  • 1 teaspoon mustard
  • 1 tablespoon white wine vinegar
  • 1 tablespoon caper
  • 3 anchovy fillet
  • 1 egg yolk
  • 1/2 lemon juiced

Method
 

veal
  1. Place the veal in a pot and surround it with all of the vegetables. Add the bay leaf and cloves and season with salt and freshly ground black pepper. Cover with water and bring to the boil. Reduce the heat to low and simmer gently for 60 minutes and allow it to cool in the stock.
sauce
  1. Mix the egg yolk, mustard, vinegar, oil and pepper to a mayonnaise.
  2. Drain the tuna. In a fresh bowel, add the tuna, anchovies, veal stock and purée with a hand blender.
  3. Add the mayonnaise and season to taste with salt, pepper and lemon juice.
  4. Serve the cooked veal very thinly sliced and cover it with a covered a thin layer of the sauce. Garnish with capers and a sprinkle of marjoram.

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