Veal Fricando with Mushrooms & Hazel Nuts

Veal cooked in a soulful sauce fragrant with wild mushrooms, fricandó is Catalan bourgeois home cooking par excellence. It is a preparation that exists in several European cuisines—usually as a fricassee. But the Catalans, who have been making fricandó since the eighteenth century, have elevated and enshrined it. The meat, they insist, should be cutlets from a tough economical cut, like shin, which benefits from slow cooking. The classic fricandó mushrooms are moixernon