Beef Rouladen Dinner

Come on Y'all! I've been slavin over this for hours!

-Carly Bobby ( Ricky Bobby's wife) Talledega Nights

This is perfect for a Sunday Dinner. Invite your favorite Oma over!

What you need:

Rouladen

•  sirloin tip roast or top round roast (partially frozen before slicing)
• mustard
• salt and pepper
• slices of pickles
• slices of carrots
• slices of green onion
• slices of celery
• 1 white onion chopped
• 4 cloves of garlic chopped fine
• 1/2 cup white wine
• beef broth
• 1 tsp corn starch
• Worcestershire sauce

Horseradish Mashed Potatoes

• russet/baking potatoes
• prepared horseradish ( grated fresh if you have it!)
• milk
• butter
• salt and pepper

Carrots

• slices of carrots
• maple syrup
• butter/olive oil
• salt and pepper

Zucchini

• Sliced zucchini
• olive oil
• salt and pepper

Step 1: Choose your meat. Most people use top round pounded flat for rouladen. I prefer Sirloin. Top round makes a nice round piece of meat but, in all honesty I have never cooked eye of round where it ever tasted better than a piece of leather. I don't know why people eat it. It is tough no matter how long or short you cook it. It has no fat and it always tastes dry and tough to me. I use the Sirloin because it is tender and flavourful. It isn't perfectly round but I will still always choose this over eye of round any day! You pick what you like. I went to my favourite market and asked them to cut a roast in half for me.

Step 2: partially freeze your meat, slice thin with sharp knife.

Step 3: between plastic wrap pound the slices thin

Step 4: slice vegetables in similar sizes

Step 5: brush the slices with mustard, salt and pepper. Top with a few slices of pickle, carrots and onions.

Step 6: roll up and fasten with toothpicks or kitchen twine.

Step 7: fry in olive oil until browned. Do not crowd the pan.

Step 8: once browned remove to a plate.

Step 9: in same pan fry onions with additional oil if necessary. Scrape up all the browned bits on the bottom of the pan. Add garlic and cook for a minute.

Step 10: add white wine and scrape up any bits still stuck to the pan. Add broth.

Step 11: return meat back to pan. Bake in oven 325 degrees F for 30 minutes covered, then up to 1 hour uncovered. Turn occasionally. Remove from oven and take out meat (remove toothpicks) and put on a plate .

Step 12: make mashed potatoes. Boil peeled potatoes. Drain and return to pot. Add milk, butter, horseradish, salt and pepper and mash.

Step 13: in a fry pan with olive oil and butter fry sticks of carrots, once they soften add maple syrup and salt and pepper.

Step 14: in a small fry pan add zucchini and olive oil, salt and pepper.

Step 15: Finally, prepare gravy . Add corn starch to a small amount of water in a cup and mix. Add slurry to beef drippings and mix until comes to a boil add salt and pepper. A few splashes of Worcestershire and strain.