French Fridays with Dorie: Veal Chops with Rosemary Butter

Veal Chops with Rosemary Butter from Around my French Table on eatlivetravelwrite.com

Believe it or not, I barely made any changes to this week’s French Fridays with Dorie recipe (Veal Chops with Rosemary Butter, p268). It looked like a simple dish and who am I to mess with simple flavours, especially when they are Dorie-approved.  As she says, you don’t have to do much to make a veal chop taste good.

Dorie Greenspan's Veal Chops with Rosemary Butter on eatlivetravelwrite.com

The only things I did wrong this week were 1. I only bought one chop (Not sure what I was thinking but duh!) and 2. I bought a loin chop, not a rib chop as Dorie suggests. I couldn’t find rib chops, just shoulder and loin but figured that, well, it wouldn’t make much difference. In fact, this was the perfect birthday dinner for Mr Neil – though I tried to counter the “all meat” factor by serving it with green beans that he declared “not the right match”. Whatever, it looked pretty – they are not pictured here because, well, I forgot to bring them outside when I was taking the photo. Can you tell I made this in the first week of school? 😉

Anyway, onto the veal.  It’s basically a pan-roasted chop with a creamy sauce made from white wine and chicken stock topped with a pat of rosemary butter (note to self: keep compound butter in the freezer at all times. So awesome). Once you have seasoned the meat, you let it stand at room temperature for a while (you can season the meat and make the compound butter the day before for extra flavour – just bring the meat to room temperature before you cook it) and from there, it takes around 15 minutes from start to finish. And, if I do say so myself, it looks like it took way longer. Always a great bonus in my book!

Veal Chops with Rosemary Butter for French Fridays with Dorie on eatlivetravelwrite.com

I’ll definitely be making this dish again (for me this time!) and I’ll use the techniques from this simple but oh-so-tasty one pan dish again too!

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21 thoughts on “French Fridays with Dorie: Veal Chops with Rosemary Butter”

  1. It was lovely!

    Veal is in my category of “the cuter it is walking, the better it tastes on the dinner plate”. (With slight apologies to you vegetarians out there.) I should have it more often, and certainly will if Mardi produces a dish like this! (And kudos to Mardi for cooking it perfectly [for me], with nice red interior and juices flowing.)

    As she said, there’s not much you have to do when you start with a nice piece of veal…as is true with so much meat or fish.

    The compound butter is a nice way of incorporating the rosemary (fresh from our herb garden), and just adds that gorgeous French butteriness. Such a delicate meat.

    For the pairing…well veal demands something a little lighter. If you’re going red, avoid Cabernet or Shiraz, or a bold CHateauneuf du Pape, I say. While in some respects they may work, they can overpower. This one will even work with white.

    My recommendation – especially for a birthday dinner – is a nice Bourgogne. White (Chardonnay) or red (Pinot Noir) work beautifully, on different levels. New World will work on the former, as you want something with a little oak…but not too much. So if you’re selecting from California, tread lightly. On the Pinot, I’d far prefer Old World, to kick up the herbaceous notes and tone down the fruit. Oregon and Ontario (PEC, preferably) will be nice, as will New Zealand or Tasmania.

    A fine meal.

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  2. I was also reminded how good compound butter is and also asked myself why I don’t make it more often. So darn easy and it adds not only flavor but a touch of class. Well, it does if you remember it. Yours looks great.

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  3. Happy Birthday, Mr. Neil, and next time, Mardi, buy two birthday chops, for sure. Although I had corn-on-the-cob and peaches with my own veal chop (which were delicious with it) but I could have eaten that whole veal chop on its own. I thought Dorie’s recipe was delicious.

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  4. What a great birthday meal for Mr. Neil! That compound butter was the star. Keeping a stash in the freezer is definitely a plan for my future! We’ll miss you big time next week.

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  5. Happy birthday to Mr. Neil. That is one fabulous looking dinner. Mardi, I would be glad to supply you with my little packages, but you are you far away. Have a great weekend.

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