Manzo alla California

Name: Manzo alla California (Beef California-Style)
Yield: Serves 8
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: 1 onion, finely chopped; 30 g unsalted butter; ⅓ cup (80 ml) Chardonnay vinegar; 700 ml milk; 1 tablespoon cornflour, dissolved in 1 tablespoon cold water; Borlotti Beans with Pork Skin, to serve; crusty bread, to serve; plain flour, for dusting; fine salt; grapeseed oil, for drizzling and pan-frying; 1 x 50 g piece flat pancetta, cut into 5-mm thick strips; 1 x 1.5 kg beef oyster blade, already trimmed of fat and membrane

Beef California-Style

Preparation info

Serves
8

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

A Lombardian Cookbook

By Alessandro Pavoni and Roberta Muir

Published 2015

About

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