Ossobuco
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Ossobuco
Veal Shank is a specialty of Antonio's Italian Restaurant in Monroe, NJ. Antonio's Braises in a delicious wine sauce with mushrooms, carrots and peas makes this tender veal dish a delight.
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Contact Name: Antonio's Italian Restuaurant & Pizzeria
Contact Phone: 609-395-9195
Description
Ossobuco, when loosely translated from Italian, means hollowed bone, a reference to the large piece of marrow in the center of the veal shank bone. It derives from the phrase osso buco (literally hole bone) in the Western Lombard dialect because the bone marrow is part of the appeal of the dish.
This dish is a Milanese specialty of veal shanks cooked in meat broth, flavored with white wine and vegetables. Slowly braised, this flavorful cut of meat is meltingly tender, making it rich and creamy.
These catered to the neighborhood's local residents but rarely if ever to tourists and foreigners.
Traditional ossobuco (which had no tomatoes) was prepared with cinnamon, allspice, bay leaf and gremolata and today is called ossobuco in bianco (ossobuco in white sauce). The modern version has, by and large, replaced the older one. This new version includes tomatoes and the holy trinity of Italian cooking: carrot, celery and onion, flavored with herbs but no gremolata (although hybrid versions exist which include both tomato and gremolata).
While risotto alla milanese perfectly compliments ossobuco in bianco, for which is was intended, the moister, bolder modern-day version goes better either with polenta or mashed potatoes. [5]
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