Okay, I’ll concede that this photo looks like alien foeti on a slab. But I promise you, it’s very tasty. When cooked.
Ingredients
Pork escalopes. I used 125g for two people.
Sage leaves (fresh)
Parma ham
Butter
White wine
The Cooking
“Saltimbocca” is on The List but I am not including this recipe on the list because you’re supposed to use veal and I used pork. It’s budget saltimbocca. What you do is:
Bash some pork escalopes with a heavy implement. Cut into, oh, 3 inch pieces. Lie one sage leaf on a piece of escalope, then lie a slice of parma ham on top. Secure with a cocktail stick (this is the stage I’m at in the above photo).
Heat some butter in a pan, a generous knob. When the pan is good and hot put the escalopes in ham-side-down and let it cook for 3/4 minutes. Turn it over. Cook for another 3/4 minutes.
Pour in a good glug of wine and let it cook off for a minute or so, to take the alcohol edge off it.
Serve. I ate mine today with a couple of corns on the cob and carrots, which is entirely unsuitable but goes with my trying-to-eat-more-veg efforts. It would be much better with sauteed potatoes.
March 26, 2006 at 6:33 pm
My Italian grandmother would also make chicken saltimbocca, which is also delightful. She also threw some capers in for the last minute or so of cooking, but then, we’re freaks for capers in our family.
Alien fetuses or not, I’d eat the heck out of this.
May 21, 2007 at 3:35 pm
my husband hates sage but i’m missing Saltimbocca. have you done any herb substitutions? am thinking tarragon…
May 21, 2007 at 7:29 pm
Tarragon would work, certainly. Or fresh bay leaves maybe.
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