Veal Shoulder Pot Roast with Morels

Fricandeau aux Morilles

Preparation info
  • Makes about

    10

    Main-Course Servings
    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
Glorious French Food

By James Peterson

Published 2002

  • About

I once worked in a restaurant where one of the owner’s favorite dishes was a vitello tonnato, cold roast veal slices spread with a mayonnaise flavored with canned tuna and capers. Well, I like vitello tonnato but it’s not a subtle dish, and it used to kill me to pour the jus from that wonderful roast into that fishy mayonnaise. To stave off boredom, I cooked the veal a little differently every day so that after months of experimentation I felt I had finally learned how to cook veal. Through