Easy Beef Roll
By: Zomppa
Published: Monday, February 28, 2011 - 4:40am

Ingredients




 kilograms round steak
3 stalks of Celery
8 slices of Pancetta (you can use bacon instead)
3 branchs of Rosemary
4 Garlic cloves (sliced note too finely)
Vegetable bouillon
Black pepper
Olive oil
Kitchen string
You can use leeks instead of the Celery
1 small onion sliced/diced optional

Preparation

1 Ask the butcher to butterfly the steak and ask him to remove excess fat. 2 Wash all ingredients including the meat. 3 Chop up the celery not too finely and leave to cook slowly in a little olive oil till well done. Leave to cool. 4 Preheat your oven to 325F 5 Lie the butterflied steak face down and make small slivers with a sharp knife, put the garlic into these slivers and some rosemary also if you wish (You can do this on both side of the steak. 6 Sprinkle some olive oil ,some black pepper and a little bouillon on the side of the meat you will stuff. 7 Spread 8 slices of Pancetta out on the meat, and then spread on top of this the cooked celery  (onion) mixture that you have left to cool aside. Then sprinkle a little more bouillon black pepper and some rosemary. Add any left over garlic and sprinkle some olive oil. 8 Roll the steak over and use the kitchen string to hold the meat together. And do not hesitate to sprinkle some more olive oil all over the roll. 9 When you are done with tying the roll together with the string, take a branch of Rosemary and slide this in between the string. 10 Leave the roll to sit for about 5 minutes as you warm your  skillet. 11 Poor a little olive in your skillet and start cooking your roll on all sides on 6 (The goal is to start the cooking process) 12 Poor some olive oil into a deep non-stick oven dish and put your beef roll into it and cook on 325F for 3-4hrs. 13 Do not hesitate to check every 30 minutes to an hour. 14 When cooked leave to cool, then slice and serve as desired.

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