Raw-Meat Meatloaf, Florentine Style
Origin: Florence, Italy
Source: Pellegrino Artusi, 1891
Ingredients
- 500 g lean veal
- fatty and lean prosciutto
- 1 egg
- spices
- onion
- parsley, celery, carrot
- butter
- 1/2 spoonful flour
- 1/2 lemon
- 1 hard-boiled egg
Instructions
- Chop lean veal fine with prosciutto; season with salt, pepper, spices, and egg, then form a floured ball.
- Color a battutino of onion, parsley, celery, and carrot in butter and add the loaf.
- Brown, then add a half glass of water with flour dissolved in it; cover and simmer very gently without sticking.
- Serve with the thick sauce and a squeeze of lemon; for the Piedmontese version, enclose a hard-boiled egg in the center.