Scaloppine is a classic Italian dish that is made by thinly slicing meat, typically veal or chicken, and then sautéing it in butter or olive oil. It is a simple but delicious dish that can be served with a variety of sauces and sides. The key to making good scaloppine is to use high-quality meat and to cook it quickly over high heat. This will help to keep the meat tender and juicy.
Here are our top 9 tried and tested recipes!
PORK SCALOPPINE
Butter, white wine, capers, and fresh rosemary and sage make an unbelievable pan sauce for tender pork loin in this traditional Roman dish.
Provided by Martha Stewart
Categories Food & Cooking Ingredients Meat & Poultry Pork Recipes
Time 40m
Number Of Ingredients 10
Steps:
- Pound pork slices to 3/8 inch thick, season with salt and pepper, and dredge in flour, shaking off excess. Transfer to a wire rack, and let stand 10 minutes.
- Heat 1 tablespoon oil in a large saute pan over medium-high heat, and then add 1 tablespoon butter and melt, swirling to coat bottom of pan. Add 3 pork slices in a single layer and cook, flipping once, until both sides are golden brown and pork is cooked through, about 4 minutes total. Transfer to a serving platter and loosely cover with foil. Repeat.
- Add capers and herbs and cook over medium-high heat, stirring, just until fragrant, less than 30 seconds. Add wine and cook until reduced by half. Stir in remaining tablespoon butter and pour sauce over pork. Add arugula to platter and drizzle with oil.
CHICKEN SCALLOPINI
While many have heard of veal scallopini, you can make this Italian dish with most any meat or even vegetables. The trick is to use a demi-glace of the same style -- i.e., a venison demi if using deer. You can 'fake' a demi-glace by reducing an appropriate brown stock and adding a water and flour slurry to thicken. Makes an awesome romantic dinner for two.
Provided by Strangecacti
Categories World Cuisine Recipes European Italian
Time 40m
Yield 2
Number Of Ingredients 12
Steps:
- In a small bowl, stir together the garlic and butter until well combined. Set aside. Place a chicken breast half on a work surface with the thick side facing to the right (if you're right-handed), and place your left hand down on the chicken breast. Using a very sharp knife, carefully cut the chicken breast from the thick side to about 1/2 inch from the edge of the thin side, in a horizontal cut. Open the cut chicken breast and spread it out like an open book. Using a meat mallet, gently pound the butterflied chicken breast out until it's an even thickness.
- Place the flour into a shallow dish, and dredge each chicken breast on both sides with flour. Melt the garlic butter in a large skillet over medium heat until it stops foaming, and cook each chicken breast until golden brown on both sides, 6 to 8 minutes per side. Sprinkle each breast with salt and pepper. Remove the chicken breasts to a platter, and keep warm.
- Cook and stir the mushrooms in the same skillet as the chicken until the mushrooms have absorbed the remaining butter in the skillet and have begun to turn brown at the edges. Stir in capers, lemon juice, white wine, and chicken demi-glace, and stir to combine. Reduce to a simmer. Adjust salt and pepper again, and stir the parsley into the sauce.
- Remove the chicken breasts to plates, and serve the sauce over the chicken. Garnish each serving with a lemon slice.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 541.7 calories, Carbohydrate 34.8 g, Cholesterol 128.2 mg, Fat 27.2 g, Fiber 2.5 g, Protein 34.8 g, SaturatedFat 15.5 g, Sodium 884.4 mg, Sugar 3.2 g
SCALOPPINE WITH ANY MEAT
You can use any kind of meat to make these dead-simple scaloppine - veal, turkey, chicken, pork, even beef if you can find pieces thin enough. Cook them quickly in butter over high heat, then turn those buttery pan drippings into your sauce, seasoning it with garlic and a squeeze of lemon or lime. This needs no further embellishment. But a handful of capers, sliced olives, chopped fresh herbs or toasted sliced almonds warmed in the butter at the last minute wouldn't do any harm, either.
Provided by Melissa Clark
Categories main course
Time 10m
Yield 4 servings
Number Of Ingredients 5
Steps:
- Season cutlets with salt and pepper. Melt butter in a large skillet over high heat. Add cutlets and cook quickly, about 1 minute per side. Transfer cutlets to a plate.
- Return skillet to low heat. Add garlic and cook, swirling the pan, until you can smell it. Squeeze in the lemon or lime juice and season with salt and pepper. Spoon over cutlets and serve.
Nutrition Facts : @context http, Calories 63, UnsaturatedFat 2 grams, Carbohydrate 1 gram, Fat 4 grams, Fiber 0 grams, Protein 6 grams, SaturatedFat 2 grams, Sodium 76 milligrams, Sugar 0 grams, TransFat 0 grams
BEEF SCALOPPINE
Another dish we ate growing up. This is one of my favorites!We always ate it over cooked rice and I actually like to DOUBLE the recipe to have PLENTY of gravy.
Provided by Marlene.
Categories Stove Top
Time 1h45m
Yield 6 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 10
Steps:
- Mix the flour, salt, pepper and garlic salt.
- Coat the strips of meat.
- Fry in a pan, using shortening or oil until brown.
- Add the chicken bullion cube dissolved in the 1 cup water.
- Add the 2 cans beef gravy and the 3/4 cup red wine.
- Simmer for 1- 1 1/2 hours.
- Garnish with chopped green onion.
- Best when served over cooked rice!
PORK SCALOPPINE WITH HERBED NOODLES
Categories Pasta Sauté Quick & Easy Dinner Pork Tenderloin Fortified Wine Tarragon Chive Capers Gourmet Sugar Conscious Peanut Free Tree Nut Free Soy Free
Yield Makes 4 servings
Number Of Ingredients 8
Steps:
- Gently pound each piece of pork between 2 sheets of plastic wrap to 1/4-inch thickness with flat side of a meat pounder or a rolling pin. Pat dry and season with salt and pepper.
- Heat 1 1/2 tablespoons butter in a 12-inch heavy skillet over moderately high heat until foam subsides, then, without crowding, sauté half of pork, turning over once, until golden brown, about 4 minutes total. Transfer with tongs to a plate and keep warm, covered. Sauté remaining pork with 1 1/2 tablespoons butter in same manner. Reserve skillet with fat.
- While meat is sautéing, cook noodles in a large pot of boiling salted water until just tender, then drain in a colander. Return to pot and toss with remaining 2 tablespoons butter, herbs, and salt and pepper to taste.
- Add vermouth and capers to skillet and deglaze by boiling, scraping up brown bits. Continue to boil until sauce is slightly thickened, about 1 minute.
- Divide noodles among 4 plates and top with pork. Spoon sauce over pork.
VEAL SCALOPPINE UMBRIA-STYLE
This dish showcases the skillful skillet cookery and flavorful pan sauces that delighted me in Umbria. After lightly frying the veal scallops, you start the sauce with a pestata of prosciutto, anchovy, and garlic, build it up with fresh sage, wine, broth, and capers-and then reduce and intensify it to a savory and superb glaze on the scaloppine. Though veal is most prized in this preparation, I have tried substituting scallops of chicken breast and pork; both versions were quick and delicious. Serve the scaloppine over braised spinach, or with braised carrots on the side.
Yield serves 6
Number Of Ingredients 14
Steps:
- Using the food processor, mince the prosciutto, garlic, anchovies, and 2 tablespoons of the olive oil into a fine-textured pestata.
- Flatten the veal scallops into scaloppine, one at a time: place a scallop between sheets of wax paper or plastic wrap, and pound it with the toothed face of a meat mallet, tenderizing and spreading it into a thin oval, about 1/4 inch thick.
- Salt the scaloppine lightly on both sides, using about 1/2 teaspoon salt in all. Put the butter and remaining olive oil in the skillet, and set it over medium-low heat. When the butter begins to bubble, lay as many scaloppine in the pan as you can in one layer (about half the pieces). Cook the first side for a minute or two, just until the meat becomes opaque but doesn't darken; flip the scaloppine, and lightly fry the second side the same way. Remove the first batch of veal to a plate, and fry the remaining scaloppine.
- When all the scaloppine have had the first fry, raise the heat and boil off any accumulated meat liquid until the skillet is nearly dry. Drop in the pestata, stir it around the pan, and let it cook for a couple of minutes, until it's sizzling and rendering fat from the prosciutto. Scatter in the sage leaves, stir, and heat them until sizzling, then pour in the wine and lemon juice. Bring to a boil, and cook to reduce the wine by half. Pour in the stock, heat to a bubbling simmer, and return the scaloppine to the pan, sliding them into the liquid so they're moistened. Toss in the capers, and sprinkle the remaining salt over all.
- Adjust the heat to keep the sauce simmering gently and reducing gradually. Cook for about 10 minutes, turning the scaloppine over once or twice, until almost all the moisture has evaporated, concentrating the sauce into a thick coating on the meat and pan bottom.
- Remove the skillet from the heat, and sprinkle the parsley over the veal. Tumble the scaloppine over, coating them all with sauce and parsley, and serve immediately. Be sure to scrape every bit of concentrated sauce from the skillet, onto each serving of scaloppine.
EASY CHICKEN SCALOPPINE
This is from a cookbook club that I used to belong to years ago, I pulled out the binder, dusted it off, and looked for a chicken recipe. This is what I found, and it's delicous...my picky 3 year old even ate it!
Provided by crazycookinmama
Categories Chicken Breast
Time 40m
Yield 4 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 14
Steps:
- In a large skillet, heat olive oil over medium-high heat. Add onion; saute until softened, about 2 minutes. Add mushrooms and garlic; cook, stirring frequently, until vegetables are softened and lightly browned, 10-15 minutes. Cover and remove from heat; set aside.
- Rinse chicken breast halves under cold water; pat dry with paper towels. On a cutting board, cut each piece in half. Place between sheets of waxed paper; using a rolling pin, pound and roll chicken to 1/4 inch thickness.
- In a bowl, combine flour, sage, salt and pepper. Dredge chicken pieces in the mixture, shaking off excess.
- In a large skillet, heat 1 tablespoon olive oil and 1 tablespoon butter over medium heat. Cook chicken pieces, 4 or 5 at a time, until cooked through and lightly browned on both sides, about 2 minutes per side; add additional oil and butter, if necessary. Transfer chicken to a plate.
- Add balsamic vinegar to the skillet; increase heat to medium-high heat and cook, stirring, to loosen any browned bits from the bottom and sides of the skillet, about 1 minute.
- Return chicken and pan juices to the skillet; reduce heat to low and turn medallions once or twice to baste them in the sauce.
- Add cooked pasta to the skillet with the vegetables, tossing to combine; warm over low heat until heated through, about 4 minutes.
- Transfer pasta and vegetables to a platter. Arrange the chicken medallions on the platter next to the pasta and vegetables; garnish with fresh basil leaves and lemon wedges. Serve immediately.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 507.4, Fat 12.4, SaturatedFat 3.4, Cholesterol 76.1, Sodium 250, Carbohydrate 58.8, Fiber 3.2, Sugar 2.8, Protein 38.8
SCALOPPINE OF WHITE MEAT WITH SHIITAKE AND COGNAC SAUCE
Provided by Jacques Pepin
Categories dinner, main course
Time 20m
Yield 12 servings
Number Of Ingredients 12
Steps:
- Drain the shiitake mushrooms and remove the stems, which are too fibrous to use. (Add them to the stock for the cream of lettuce soup.)
- Cut the caps into half-inch strips. Strain the juice through paper towels and reduce to one cup. Set aside.
- At serving time, use three skillets or two large saucepans. Divide the butter between the skillets and heat. When hot, add the scaloppines. Sprinkle with salt and pepper. Cook over medium to high heat for approximately one minute on each side. Arrange in a dish and set in a 180-degree oven to keep warm.
- Add the shallots and garlic to the skillets and saute for 30 seconds. Add the Cognac and flambe. Add the reduced mushroom juice and cream and bring to a boil, stirring to dissolve, and mix in any solidified juices. Add the juice that has been released from the scaloppines. Strain into a clean saucepan and add the shiitakes. Bring to a boil and simmer for three minutes. Add salt and pepper to taste and the dissolved potato starch if the mixture needs thickening. Add a few drops of lemon juice. Arrange the scaloppines on a platter or individual plates and coat with the sauce and mushrooms. Serve immediately.
Nutrition Facts : @context http, Calories 447, UnsaturatedFat 13 grams, Carbohydrate 6 grams, Fat 29 grams, Fiber 1 gram, Protein 39 grams, SaturatedFat 14 grams, Sodium 516 milligrams, Sugar 1 gram, TransFat 0 grams
SCALOPPINE AL MARSALA
Sometimes called veal Marsala, this is the classic Italian dish made with thinly sliced veal scaloppine. A recipe typical of Sicily, where the best Marsala comes from. Serve with plenty of bread to mop up the sauce.
Provided by saretta
Categories World Cuisine Recipes European Italian
Time 25m
Yield 4
Number Of Ingredients 8
Steps:
- Place veal between 2 sheets of heavy plastic on a solid, level surface; pound to 1/4-inch thickness with the smooth side of a meat mallet. Pat dry with a paper towel and dust with flour on both sides.
- Melt butter with olive oil in a large skillet over medium heat until it starts to foam. Add veal; cook until browned, 3 to 4 minutes per side. Season with salt. Transfer veal to a plate. Cover with aluminum foil to keep warm.
- Pour Marsala wine into the same skillet. Stir to scrape up browned bits from the bottom of the skillet, about 2 minutes.
- Stir water and cornstarch together in a small bowl until cornstarch dissolves. Stir into the Marsala wine in the skillet. Season with salt and pepper. Cook until sauce thickens, about 5 minutes.
- Return veal to the skillet; cook until heated through, about 1 minute. Remove from heat and serve topped with sauce.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 283.1 calories, Carbohydrate 9 g, Cholesterol 119.5 mg, Fat 13.4 g, Fiber 0.1 g, Protein 22.1 g, SaturatedFat 5.3 g, Sodium 150.2 mg, Sugar 2.4 g
Tips:
- Tenderize the meat: Use a meat mallet or a fork to tenderize the meat before cooking. This will help to break down the fibers and make the meat more tender.
- Use a good quality olive oil: Olive oil is a key ingredient in this dish, so make sure to use a good quality extra virgin olive oil.
- Don't overcrowd the pan: When cooking the meat, don't overcrowd the pan. This will prevent the meat from cooking evenly and will make it more likely to stick to the pan.
- Cook the meat in batches: If you have a lot of meat to cook, cook it in batches. This will help to ensure that the meat is cooked evenly.
- Use a meat thermometer: To ensure that the meat is cooked to your desired doneness, use a meat thermometer. Chicken should be cooked to an internal temperature of 165 degrees Fahrenheit, pork to 145 degrees Fahrenheit, and beef to 135 degrees Fahrenheit.
- Let the meat rest: After cooking the meat, let it rest for a few minutes before slicing and serving. This will help the juices to redistribute throughout the meat, making it more tender and flavorful.
Conclusion:
Scaloppine is a delicious and versatile dish that can be made with a variety of meats. By following these tips, you can make sure that your scaloppine is cooked to perfection. Remember, the key to making a great scaloppine is to use high-quality ingredients and to cook the meat properly. With a little practice, you'll be able to make scaloppine that is sure to impress your friends and family.
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