Falsomagro Recipe – Sicilian Stuffed Meat Rolls

• Serves: 4

Ingredients:

• 600g veal (one very thin slice)
• 250g minced veal
• 100g skinned sausage
• 100g cooked ham
• 50g diced salami
• 3 slices of bread soaked in milk, then squeezed
• 100g diced Caciocavallo or caciotta cheese
• 5 hard-boiled shelled eggs
• 2 tablespoons grated Parmesan cheese
• 2 raw eggs
• 400g tomato puree
• 3 tablespoons tomato paste (or tomato concentrate)
• ½ glass red wine
• 1 sliced onion
• extra virgin olive oil, salt, pepper, basil and water
• 1 bay leaf

Instructions:

1. For the filling: put the minced veal, skinned sausage, soaked and squeezed bread, diced salami, diced Caciocavallo cheese, grated Parmesan and raw eggs in a large bowl. Mix well with your hands.

2. Flatten the veal slice on a chopping board, cover with ham slices and then spread the filling evenly over that, leaving a 3cm gap at one end for sealing. With your hand make a small indent parallel to the short end (with filling to edge) and place the hard-boiled eggs in the indent. Roll the roast up, tying it firmly using string.

3. Brown the sliced onion in a large saucepan then add a little oil. Add the falsomagro roast and let it brown on all sides. Sprinkle with wine and cook on a low heat until it evaporates. Add the tomato paste, diluted with water, tomato puree, a bay leaf and a pinch of salt and pepper.

4. Cover the saucepan and cook on a low heat for approximately 30 minutes. Add some basil leaves and some salt if necessary.

5. Cook the roast for a further 30 minutes on a low heat, always keeping it covered with a lid.

6. Serve the falsomagro in slightly thick (1.5”) slices with its gravy. Use the remaining sauce as a pasta sauce.