Rouladen -german Pigs In A Blanket

Total Time: 2 hrs 15 mins Preparation Time: 45 mins Cook Time: 1 hr 30 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 2 lbs flank steaks, pounded thin and sliced into narrow strips
• 1 lb bacon, cut lengths in half
• sliced dill pickle
• prepared mustard
• 1 pinch marjoram, for each roll up
• 2/3 cup flour
• salt and pepper
• oil, for browning
• 2 cups beef broth
• toothpicks or kitchen string

Recipe

• 1 trim all fat from meat and if not pounded flat by your butcher, take a metal or wooden cooking mallet and pound the steak until the tissues are broken down and it is pretty thin.
• 2 cut steak into long thin strips.
• 3 season flour with salt and pepper.
• 4 arrange an assembly line for preparation for ease of rolling.
• 5 on each piece of steak, place a dab of mustard and rub it along the steak.
• 6 add a piece of bacon.
• 7 add a piece of pickle slice.
• 8 sprinkle a dab of marjoram.
• 9 from one end of the steak, start rolling the steak, bacon, pickle until completely rolled and secure with toothpicks or string.
• 10 continue until all steak is rolled.
• 11 dredge rolls of steak into flour until coated.
• 12 heat oil in deep fryer pan.
• 13 brown steak until browned.
• 14 transfer to casserole dish.
• 15 continue browning and transferring into casserole dish until done.
• 16 preheat oven to 350°f.
• 17 stir and scrape up any browned bits left in frying pan and slowly add 2 cups of beef broth.
• 18 sprinkle a dash of extra marjoram into gravy and stir.
• 19 pour gravy over steak rolls in casserole dish.
• 20 either bake now at 350°f for 1-1-1/2 hours or you can refrigerate and cook later.