Have you ever been to a wedding in Odessa? Large and noisy, where tables are bursting with food. Ladies in sparkling closes and gems are dancing to ” Hava nagila”. Where, on huge oval trays with a red apple in their mouths, baked piglets lie in bewilderment looking at the guests, and baked ducks and fried meat rolls float past them. A wedding, from which a vegetarian will leave hungry, a normal Odessa child will be well fed, and the newlyweds will eat the leftovers for a whole week and treat all the neighbours. Do you remember how Babel described such a table in his Odessa stories: “At this wedding, turkeys, fried chicken, geese, stuffed fish and fish soup, in which lemon lakes shone with mother-of-pearl, were served for dinner. Flowers swayed over the dead goose-heads like lush plumes. But does the surf of the Odessa sea bring fried chickens to the shore? ” In general, it doesn’t matter whether you are cooking this beef roll with or without an occasion, when you eat it, remember Odessa and feel the “Babel” aftertaste 🙂
Have you ever been to a wedding in Odessa? Large and noisy, where tables are bursting with food. Ladies in sparkling closes and gems are dancing to ” Hava nagila”. Where, on huge oval trays with a red apple in their mouths, baked piglets lie in bewilderment looking at the guests, and baked ducks and fried meat rolls float past them. A wedding, from which a vegetarian will leave hungry, a normal Odessa child will be well fed, and the newlyweds will eat the leftovers for a whole week and treat all the neighbours. Do you remember how Babel described such a table in his Odessa stories: “At this wedding, turkeys, fried chicken, geese, stuffed fish and fish soup, in which lemon lakes shone with mother-of-pearl, were served for dinner. Flowers swayed over the dead goose-heads like lush plumes. But does the surf of the Odessa sea bring fried chickens to the shore? ” In general, it doesn’t matter whether you are cooking this beef roll with or without an occasion, when you eat it, remember Odessa and feel the “Babel” aftertaste 🙂- Prep time: 35 minutes
- Cook time: 50 minutes
- Serves: 4
- Difficulty: medium
- Course: main course
- Cookware: twine for baking
- Cuisine: Odessa
Ingredients
⠀- 500 g beef fillet
- 300 g cup mushrooms, finely chopped
- 200 g hard cheese, coarsely grated
- 2 medium onions, peeled, cut into half rings
- 3 tbsp olive oil
- oil for frying
- 100 ml cream
- freshly ground black pepper
- sea salt
Cooking method
Step 1
Clear the meat of the silver skin. Place the meat on a cutting board, cut along the thicker side to the middle and unfold like a book.
Cover the layer with cling film and beat off, but so as not to tear the meat. Remove the cling film. Drizzle with oil, season with salt and pepper. Leave to marinate for 15 minutes.
Step 2
In a frying pan over medium heat, fry the onions in oil. Add mushrooms and fry over medium heat for 10-15 minutes. Add salt, pepper, cream, simmer for 3 minutes and remove from heat.
Step 3
Heat oven to 160°C. Put mushrooms, onions and cheese on the edge of the meat slice. Roll up the meat and tie with twine to secure it. Fry the roll in a pan on all sides until golden brown. Wrap in foil and bake for 40 minutes.
My tips and tricks:
Did you know that dry porcini mushrooms make a great spice? To do this, grind them in a coffee grinder into a mushroom mixture and add them to mushrooms or any dish that is appropriate to give a mushroom aroma. In our recipe, to unleash the mushroom flavour, add a little mushroom mixture to the mushrooms as you roast them.
- 500 g beef fillet
- 300 g cup mushrooms, finely chopped
- 200 g hard cheese, coarsely grated
- 2 medium onions, peeled, cut into half rings
- 3 tbsp olive oil
- oil for frying
- 100 ml cream
- freshly ground black pepper
- sea salt
- Clear the meat of the silver skin. Place the meat on a cutting board, cut along the thicker side to the middle and unfold like a book. Cover the layer with cling film and beat off, but so as not to tear the meat. Remove the cling film. Drizzle with oil, season with salt and pepper. Leave to marinate for 15 minutes.
- In a frying pan over medium heat, fry the onions in oil. Add mushrooms and fry over medium heat for 10-15 minutes. Add salt, pepper, cream, simmer for 3 minutes and remove from heat.
- Heat oven to 160°C. Put mushrooms, onions and cheese on the edge of the meat slice. Roll up the meat and tie with twine to secure it. Fry the roll in a pan on all sides until golden brown. Wrap in foil and bake for 40 minutes.