How To Make Beef Olives?

At the Hotel zur Post Füllenbach they like to cook rhenish inbetween. Amongst others they serve beef olives with red cabbage and dumplings.

Ingrediences

You need for the beef olive: Beef, bacon, onions, gherkin, mustard, salt and pepper.

Preparation

Cut thin slices from the meat.

Beat carefully so that the slices are flat.

Cut the onions.

Cut the gherkin in halves.

Salt and pepper the meat

Put some mustard on it

Put the bacon on it

Put some onions on one end

Add some gherkins

And roll tightly

Fix with a toothpick

Heat oil in a big pot

Sear the beef olives

Don't turn them too early. They need some colour.

Like that…

Cut root vegetables into peaces

And add it to the beef olives

Let it all roast

Add some tomato purée

Mix it all

Deglaze with some red wine

Let it cook

And stew everything for about two hours

Preparation Red Cabbage

Meanwhile you can prepare the red cabbage. You need red cabbage.

Cut the red cabbage in half

Cut it in quarters and cut out the stem.

Cut into fine slices

You could also use a cabbage grate.

Then you need apart from the red cabbage: Onions, apples, vinegar, red wine, sugar, salz, pepper and lingonberries.

Heat some oil in a big pot and roast the onions and the red cabbage.

Add bay leef.

And add some cloves

Add some vinegar

And some sugar

Mix well

Deglaze with some red wine

Add some water

And let it all stew together for about an hour

Shortly before serving add the apples

Cut out the apple core

Peel the apples

And cut into peaces

Add the peaces to the red cabbage

And let them cook shortly

Add some lingonberries

Meanwhile the beef olives can be taken out of the pot.

Keep them warm

Pass the sauce through a sieve

Purée the vegetables

And then you can start to plate it

Add the dumplings. And… Ready! We will explain another time how to make dumplings.

Enjoy!

How do you make beef olives?

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