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BEEF ROULADEN RECIPE
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German Beef Rouladen Recipe

One of the most famous and well-loved German dish
Prep Time1 hour
Active Time1 hour
Yield: 6 people

Equipment

  • Kitchen Twine
  • Pressure cooker optional

Ingredients you need

Preparing roulades

  • 6 Top Round Beef Ask your Butcher for help with the meat for beef roulades
  • Salt
  • Ground black pepper
  • 12 Bacon strips
  • 6 Large Pickled cucumbers 24 slices
  • 6 Hard-boiled Eggs
  • 3-4 tbsp Yellow mustard

Broth

  • 2 tbsp Cooking oil
  • 2 Tomatoes or 8 Cherry tomatoes
  • 2 Onions
  • 2 Carrots
  • 3 tbsp Tomato paste
  • 1 l Beef Broth Instant or homemade
  • 1 tsp Salt
  • ½ tsp Ground black pepper

Sauce

  • 80 - 100 g All-purpose flour
  • 150 - 200q ml Water

Directions

Preparing roulades

  • Season the meat on both sides with salt and pepper.
  • Thereafter, we can start layering the roulade meat. According to this order: Beef, bacon strips, 4-6 pickled cucumbers, 1 hard-boiled egg
  • Roll the beef Rouladen. Make sure that everything is in place and the egg is not showing. Thereafter, secure the roulades with a thick kitchen twine (approx. 60 to 80 cm long). Spread a generous amount of mustard over your beef rolls.

Preparing broth

  • For the broth, heat up cooking oil in a pressure cooker. If you do not own a pressure cooker, you can use a normal pot. Pressure cooker just makes everything faster.
  • Sauté vegetables and tomato paste for several minutes.
  • Then, transfer your Rouladen into your pot. Make sure the German beef roulades touch the bottom of the cooker, so that we can get a nice brownish colour on both sides of the rolls.
  • Pour beef broth into the pressure cooker and almost covering the beef Rouladen.
  • Season the broth with salt and ground black pepper according to taste. Cover the pressure cooker with lid and cook according to instructions.
  • Cook the roulades for about 30 to 45 minutes in a pressure cooker and 1 to 1.5 hours in a normal pot.
  • Once cooked, removed the roulades and discard vegetables/ chunks.

Finishing

  • Cut the beef rolls into 0.5 to 1 cm thick slices and place them in a serving dish.
  • Mix water and all-purpose flour thoroughly in a small bowl until we do not get lumps. Pour in flour mixture slowly and in portions into the broth. Continuously stir the broth until it thickens into a delicious heavy sauce.
  • Pour the sauce over the German beef Rouladen and serve!