Albanian Meat with Walnuts
Traditional dish with flour, walnuts, yolks.
- prep 9 min
- cook 21 min
- total 30 min
- serves 4
- intermediate
Ingredients
- 2 tbsp flour
- 15 shelled walnuts
- 2 egg yolks
- 1 garlic clove
- ¼ lb butter
- 2–3 lbs veal
Steps
- Place the meat or chicken in a saucepan.
- Cook over medium heat until tender.
- Remove the meat.
- Set it aside in a dish while leaving the remaining juices in the saucepan.
- In another saucepan, add the flour and stir over heat until it becomes light brown in color—do not overcook!
- Then, add half the butter.
- Add the walnuts, garlic, and egg yolks, stirring constantly.
- Add the meat juices from the other saucepan.
- Stir until all the ingredients thicken.
- Immediately remove from the heat to avoid solidifying the egg yolks.
- Fold in the meat.
- Pan fry the remaining half stick of butter until brown.
- Pour over the dish before serving.
Adapted from “Albanian Meat with Walnuts”, Wikibooks Cookbook, CC BY-SA 4.0. This adaptation is shared under the same licence.