Beefiness Roulade with Bacon, Onion, and Thyme recipe. A naturally Paleo and Whole30 dish made of beef that is rolled together with bacon, onion, and thyme inside and cooked until a natural meat and salary gravy forms.

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Over the weekend my mother showed me how to make her Beef Roulade with Bacon, Onion, and Thyme recipe. It's an eastern european recipe that was passed down from my grandmother, and it's a dish that I fondly remember eating in my childhood.

It's basically long flat pieces of beef with bacon, onion, and thyme on it, that is then rolled together, and cooked until it is surrounded in a natural meat and bacon gravy.

This roulade is 1 of those dishes where simple practiced quality ingredients result in the near flavorful melt-in-your oral cavity meals. And it just so happens to be naturally Paleo, Whole30, Gluten-free, Grain-free, and Clean… which is a great perk!

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A few months ago my mother made this Beefiness Roulade with Bacon, Onion, and Thyme recipe and, as is the case every time that she makes it, I told her how delicious information technology was.

I asked her how she fabricated it and realized a few things….

1) It's really quite simple as at that place are only a few ingredients.

ii) It's fabricated of all natural whole food ingredients and is naturally Paleo and Whole30… and

iii) This needed to be on my weblog ASAP.

I do have to admit that I forgot about it… which is why I am only putting it up at present.

BUT at the grocery store over the weekend, I saw some keen looking thin pieces of "beef skirt inside steak" at Whole Foods.

Beef Roulade with Bacon, Onion, and Thyme {Whole30, Paleo} | Perchance to Cook, www.perchancetocook.com
Beef Roulade with Bacon, Onion, and Thyme {Whole30, Paleo} | Perchance to Cook, www.perchancetocook.com

It seemed like the perfect time to have her teach me how to make her Beefiness Roulade with Salary, Onion, and Thyme recipe, then that I could then share it with yous!

She happily helped evidence me how to make it, and I took photos and notes of each stride to make information technology easier to share.. 🙂

So to start, you will need long thin pieces of skirt steak or flank steak. My pieces were between 1/4 and i/two inch thick and were about 8- ix inches long.

Don't worry if the steak is exactly 8-nine inches long, some of mine were half-dozen inches long and some were eleven inches long, but ideally viii-ix inches long is ideal.

Then, you lay a piece of bacon on top of ane piece of skirt steak and sprinkle it with common salt and pepper.

Afterwards that, you lot have a wedge of onion and a branch of fresh thyme and identify that towards the front side/ stop of the steak. Then you ringlet the steak with the piece of onion inside it, onto it cocky, until the meat is completely rolled up.

It is helpful to use two toothpicks to secure the end into the whorl /roulade.

You do this for each piece of steak, until all of them are rolled up. I had ten roulades in this recipe.

Then you put all of the roulades into a big ceramic dutch oven filled with ii cups of water. ( My mother likes to use water considering she said at that place is enough fatty in the salary and beef that you don't need whatever more in the recipe… which is truthful)

Lastly, you pinnacle the pan with 3 bay leaves, ane/four tsp ruddy pepper flakes, and 3 branches of thyme.

And so you permit it cook for most an hour ( flipping the roulades on dissimilar sides twice).

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Then you lot remove the meat from the dutch oven, and reduce the sauce until it thickens. Yous can either put the meat back in or put the meat into another pan and top information technology with the sauce. I like topping it with the sauce. 🙂

My mother told me that this dish is traditionally served with either boiled or mashed potatoes ( I accept a smashing Whole30 Mashed Potatoes recipe which would sense of taste smashing with this!), and with a cauliflower au gratin.

I highly highly recommend eating it with both. And with some homemade applesauce. 🙂

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I did some enquiry into this type of dish and constitute that it is as well chosen a rouladen, which is German, and they make it with pickles in the middle.

My mother always called it a roulady ( I'm not certain how to spell it but the word ends in a "Y" sound haha), and said this was a Hungarian / Eastern European version that was made in her family growing upwardly. ( Her parents were Hungarian).

Either way, it'south DELICIOUS and such a treat to have for dinner.

Beef Roulade with Bacon, Onion, and Thyme {Whole30, Paleo} | Perchance to Cook, www.perchancetocook.com
Beef Roulade with Bacon, Onion, and Thyme {Whole30, Paleo} | Perchance to Cook, www.perchancetocook.com

Beefiness Roulade with Bacon, Onion, and Thyme {Whole30, Paleo}

A naturally Paleo and Whole30 dish made of beef that is rolled together with bacon, onion, and thyme inside and cooked until a natural meat and bacon gravy forms.

  • 2 cups water
  • 3 1/2 lbs thin beef skirt steak /flank steak , ( long and thin pieces, between ¼-½ inch thick )
  • ane medium onion, cut into thin wedges
  • 10 pieces of bacon, ,one piece per roulade ( make sure the bacon is nitrate-gratis and sugar-free)
  • xiii fresh branches of thyme
  • salt and pepper to taste
  • 3 bay leaves
  • ¼ tsp red pepper flakes
  • toothpicks
  • Put two cups of h2o into a large ceramic dutch oven.

  • Have out the brim steak/ flank steak, and cut into 8-9 inch long pieces (some tin can be longer than others, some six inches, some eleven etc.. ).

  • Lay a slice of bacon flat on top of ane piece of brim /flank steak. ( If the bacon is besides long, fold it over dorsum on elevation of the steak or cut information technology to fit the slice ). Sprinkle it with salt and pepper. Towards the one side/end of the steak, identify a wedge of onion and a branch of thyme, and scroll the steak frontwards onto information technology self, until the meat is completely rolled up. Apply two toothpicks to secure the terminate into the roll /roulade. Put the rolled roulade into the dutch oven, molar pick side up, with the longest side facing down ( make sure the roulade is lying flat, similar in my photo, you lot want the meat to roast/grill while it is cooking). Echo until all the roulades are in the pan with h2o in it. Then, add 3 bay leaves, 1/4 tsp red pepper flakes, and 3 branches of thyme on superlative of the meat in the pan.

  • Cook over medium heat. Once the water starts to boil, put a lid/comprehend on top of the pan, but make sure to get out an opening for air to withal come out, near ¾ inch wide of an opening.

  • After 25 minutes, plow each roulade on their sides, or toothpick towards the lesser of the pan. Go along cooking with the chapeau almond fully on, nonetheless with a 3/four inch opening to permit air out. After 20 more minutes, plow each roulade onto their other side. Remove the lid completely and melt for 15 more minutes.

  • Remove the meat from pan, and increase the heat to high to evaporate the remaining liquid. Cook for 4-5 minutes, mixing often. Turn the estrus off. Either put the meat back into the pan or pour the liquid on top of the meat.

  • This recipe yields 10 roulades total—usually the serving size is ii per person, then this recipe should serve v people.