Another treat for aperitivo: I’m sure you know vitello tonnato from your frequent pilgrimages to your trusted Italian restaurant. Of course you can do it at home … well: I admit I bought the veal at my trusted food store …
(You may also start from the scratch w/ preparing the veal by yourself … I skipped this task by buying ready-to-eat veal slices at my trusted food store. Belief me: otherwise it becomes a longish adventure!)
So we start w/ a lot of cooked veal as thinly sliced as possible …
For the home-made sauce …
… we need:
- canned tuna
- Greek yoghurt
- olive oil & lemon flavored oil
- capers
- anchovies
- hard-boiled eggs.
Grab an egg-whip & mix the Greek yoghurt w/ the oils. Add some salt & pepper to taste. You may substitute lemon flavoured oil for olive oil w/ some grated lemon zest.
Chop the eggs … pull apart the tuna and add capers & anchivies.
Put everything (tuna, capers, anchovies, chopped eggs, yoghurt mess) in a high pot, grab your electric hand-held blender & start blending until everything is transformed into a thick creamy mess.
Have a closer look at the texture of the sauce: It isn’t so smooth as you might expect. That’s because I used a simple handheld blender. (A real big food processor might be able to deliver a smoother sauce!)
Now start arranging …
Arrange the veal on a plate & distribute the creamy mess overall the veal.
Be sure to have some soft Italian bread on your table to wipe up all the delicious sauce!
Enjoy!
- 200 g roast veal (thinly sliced)
- 1/2 can tuna in olive oil (about 65g tuna plus olive oil)
- 2-3 anchovies
- 1/2 tbsp capers
- 2 hard-boiled eggs
- 2 tbsp Greek yoghurt (about 50-60 g)
- 1 tbsp lemon flavoured oil
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 1/2 tsp sweet mustard
- salt & pepper
- Boil the eggs.
- In the meantime get your tuna in olive oil, the anchovies & the capers ready.
- Mix the Greek yoghurt w/ the lemon flavoured oil, the olive oil, the mustard & add salt & pepper to taste w/ an egg whip.
- Chop the hard-boiled eggs w/ an egg cutter.
- Put everything in a blender pot & blend w/ a handheld electric blender until everything is smooth.
