Inherited from Grandma and cooked with the famous Italian Barolo wine

Ingredients

• 900-1000g meat of beef olive from deer knuckle
• Approx. 80-100g, 2 pieces for each guest
• 50-60g lean bacon
• 4-5 shallots
• 2 carrotn
• 200g celery
• a little curled parsley
• 300-350g potpourri of wild mushrooms like:
• porcini mushrooms
• chanterelles
• chestnuts
• 300-350 g good German or Swiss „Spätzle“
• 1 bottle Barolo
• a bit concentrated butter
• 1 tablespoon tomato puree
• spices (salt, pepper)

Individual preference:

• I marinate the meat two days before.

My favourite components for the marinade are:

• barolo wine
• shallots
• carrot
• roughly chopped celery
• 1-2 bay leaves
• a little grinded pepper corns
• 2-3 cloves
• 1 branch of thyme
• geneva berries.

 

Preparation

1. Cut the beef olive from deer knuckle into thin slices of 80-100g apiece.
2. Roll the slices.
3. Use a tenderizer if you consider it necessary.
4. Clean the mushrooms if possible without water by only brushing them.
5. Chop them into little dices.
6. Cut also 2-3 shallots and the the bacon into small pieces.
7. Sear the bacon in a little concentrated butter.
8. Add the minced onion and finally the minced mushrooms.
9. Spice them with salt and pepper and cook it all to a "Duxelles".
10. Garnish it with minced parsley.
11. Let it cool off and brush it onto the slices of deer.
12. Roll the slices together and close them with a tooth pick.
13. Spice them outside with salt and pepper.
14. Fry them in concentrated butter on all sides and take them out.
15. Transfer the vegetables and spices from the marinade into the meat juice.
16. Sear them, add a little tomato puree and deglaze it with the stock.
17. Return the meat into the pan.
18. Let it simmer for 50-60 minutes at moderate heat.
19. Check the meat, take it out and keep it warm.
20. Sift the stock, remove fat from the surface.
21. Reduce the sauce to a lower level.
22. Make the sauce viscid with a little starch and mix a little cold butter into it.
23. Afterwards the sauce mustn’t boil any moore.