Scaloppine is a popular Italian dish in American cuisine, consisting of thinly sliced and pounded meat dredged in flour and fried with mushrooms in a wine and cream sauce. It can be served alone or with pasta. The meat is pounded between wax paper or plastic wrap and coated lightly in flour before being cooked in the sauce.
Scaloppine is an Italian dish that has become quite popular throughout American cuisine, especially in restaurants that serve Italian food. It consists of a piece of meat that is sliced thin and pounded nearly flat, then dredged in flour and fried in a small amount of butter in a pan. This is combined with mushrooms and a sauce made mostly of wine and seasoned bay leaves and thickened with heavy cream. Scallops can be served as an individual dish or accompanied with a small portion of pasta.
Sometimes “scallopine”, “scallopini” and “scaloppini”, the dish is typically prepared and served the same way regardless of spelling or pronunciation. Scallops start with a piece of meat that has been sliced fairly thin. The most common meats are chicken and veal, although beef or other poultry can also be used. This thin slice of meat is then pounded to be thinner. Even leanness throughout the piece of meat is important to ensure proper cooking.
Pounding the meat flat for preparing escalope is usually done by placing the meat between two sheets of wax paper or plastic food wrap. This allows the hammer or other object used to move through the flesh without tearing it. While the meat is mashed flat, some sliced mushrooms are usually left to brown in a pan with melted butter and then set aside.
The lightly pounded meat is then dredged with some flour seasoned with salt and pepper. The excess flour is shaken off the meat, as the idea is to have a light coating of flour and not a heavy crust as may be preferable in fried chicken. A sauce is then prepared with white wine and seasonings, with the addition of hot cream to thicken the sauce.
Once the sauce has reached the right thickness, cooked meat and mushrooms can be added or each item can be plated separately. Cooked pasta may also be served with the dish, typically by placing a small pile of pasta on the plate, then the meat and mushrooms, and drizzling it all over with a little sauce. This type of scallop is popular in the United States and other regions that serve Italian cuisine, both for its warm, rich flavor and its relative simplicity.
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