Escalope de Veau Belle Comtoise

Veal Escalope with Ham and Cheese

Preparation info
  • Serves

    6

    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in

By Anne Willan

Published 1981

  • About

Local cooks like to make this dish with aged comté cheese and with smoked ham from the town of Luxeuil in northern Franche-Comté.

Ingredients

3 eggs

Method

In a large shallow dish, beat the eggs with the oil and a pinch of salt and pepper. Put the flour in another dish and the breadcrumbs in a third. Pound the veal escalopes between two sheets of moistened greaseproof/parchment paper until very thin. Cut the cheese and ham slices in the same shape as the escalopes. Dip each escalope in flour and pat off the excess; then dip it in the egg mixture a