Pojarsky De Veau

Name: Pojarsky De Veau
Yield: Serves 2
Ingredients: 4 large pats unsalted butter; 1/4 cup (8 g) dried porcini mushrooms, hydrated in warm water to cover, drained, and chopped; 1 shallot, finely chopped; 1 clove garlic, finely chopped; 1 pound (455 g) ground veal; Leaves from 1 sprig thyme; 1/4 cup (15 g) day-old white bread crumbs in 1/4-inch pieces soaked in 1/4 cup (60 ml) milk for 15 minutes; 1 egg, lightly beaten; 1 teaspoon salt; 1 ball (size of a fist) caul fat, thawed in the refrigerator if frozen and soaked in cold water until it can be gently stretched flat; 2 veal chop bones or lamb chop bones obtained from a butcher (optional, but without the bones, you have lonely meatballs); Fennel for garnish

January 24, 2012

This is one of our favorite dishes from the old classic French repertoire, essentially a big moist meatball served on a bone. According to legend, Pojarsky (or Pojarski), a favored innkeeper of Czar Nicholas, was made famous by his killer meatballs re-formed on a veal chop bone. Serve with a frond of blanched fennel.

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