Braised Veal with Garlic

Total time: 60 minutes
     Mediterranean cuisine uses a lot of garlic.  The Spanish like it raw, rubbed on bread.  The French like it whole, cooked to a beautiful, smooth creamy purée, which is what we are doing here.  I peeled the garlic cloves... but it's really not necessary.  Just pinch the cooked garlic out of the skin to eat.. As is so often the case, this will be enough for 4 persons or 2 meals.

 Ingredients:

• 24oz veal, suitable for braising - stew meat, shoulder, 680gr, 24oz
• 2 tbs olive oil, 27gr, .95oz
• 2 tbs dried bread crumbs, 14gr, .5oz
• 1 1/2 cup dry white wine, 355gr, 12.5oz
• 1 head of garlic, 12 - 16 cloves, 72gr, 2.5oz
• 3 bay leaves
• 15oz crushed tomatoes, 450gr, 15.9oz
• 1 1/2 tbs cornstarch (maizena) dissolved in 2 tbs water, 12gr, .42oz

 Instructions:

• Cut veal into 1 1/2 inch (3.75cm) cubes. 
• Separate garlic head, peeling cloves if you like. 
• In a deep, heavy pan heat the oil over medium-high heat.   Add half of the veal and brown on all sides. 
• Remove and brown the other half.  Remove. 
• Add the bread crumbs, wine and stir well, scraping up the browned bits. 
• Return veal to pan, add garlic cloves, tomatoes and bay leaves.  Bring to a boil.  
• Cover and reduce heat to low.  Simmer for 45 minutes. 
• Turn the heat up and uncover.  Give the cornstarch mixture a stir and add to the pan a little at a time until thickened to your liking. 
• Spoon meat, garlic and sauce into a bowl and serve with gnocchi.

Gnocchi                                                                                      Time: 25 minutes

• 16oz fresh gnocchi, 450gr, 15.9oz

Cook according to package directions.  Drain and put into a large bowl. Serve with Veal and Garlic.

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Nutrition Information               Recipe serves 4            Entire Recipe / per serving Calories:  1991 / 498 Total Carbohydrates:  156 / 39           Dietary Fiber:  14 / 3.5 Total Fat:  79 / 19.5          Saturated Fat: 26 / 6.5 Cholesterol:  643 / 161 Protein:  150 / 37.5 Calcium:  416 / 104 Sodium:   2438 / 609.5

General Technical Details and Disclaimer:

**  The nutrition info assumes that 70% of the alcohol is cooked off after simmering.

Measurements are actual measurements used for calculation. If there are no values the nutritional numbers were simply too small.

I try to be accurate, but I do not guarantee it.  I use 'grams' as the unit of weight; with an approximate conversion to ounces.

My information comes from my own digital, computerized scale and the USDA Nutrient Data Library: http://ndb.nal.usda.gov/