The Best Grillades And Grits Recipes

Steps:

• In a mixing bowl, combine the beef and veal together. Season the meat with Essence. Add the flour and toss the meat completely. Turn the meat out onto a floured surface and with meat mallet, lightly pound the meat. Turn the meat over and lightly pound the meat again. In a large cast-iron pot, heat the oil. When the oil is hot, add the meat. Brown the meat evenly on both sides for 5 to 6 minutes. Add the onions, bell peppers, and celery. Season with salt and cayenne. Continue stirring, scraping the bottom and sides of the pot to loosen any browned particles. Cook for 5 to 6 minutes, or until the vegetables are wilted. Add the tomatoes and garlic. Cook, stirring often and scraping the bottom and sides of the pot for 3 to 4 minutes. Add the bay leaves, thyme, oregano, basil, broth and wine. Season with salt, cayenne, and black pepper. Bring the liquid to a simmer, partially covered, stirring occasionally, and cook for about 1 1/2 hours or until the meat is very tender. Remove the bay leaves and serve with baked cheese grits.
• Combine all ingredients thoroughly and store in an airtight jar or container.
• Recipe from "New New Orleans Cooking", by Emeril Lagasse and Jessie Tirsch. Published by William and Morrow, 1993.

Steps:

• Grits:
• Boil 4 cups water and add salt and pepper. Add quick grits, stirring until mixed well. Reduce heat and cook about 5 minutes stirring occasionally. Remove from heat. Place in a greased casserole dish. Top with cayenne pepper, if desired.
• Grillades:
• Season steak strips. Dredge in flour. Fry bacon in heavy skillet. When browned, remove bacon strips from skillet and saute onions and bell pepper in bacon drippings. Fry floured beef strips until brown. Remove strips from pan. Add water to make gravy. Return strips to gravy and heat through,
• Serve the grillades over the grits.

Steps:

• Lightly pound pork slices with a mallet. Season with salt, pepper, and Creole seasoning, and then dust in flour. Heat oil over high heat in a large Dutch oven and brown pork on both sides, in batches, for about 2 minutes per side. After browning, reserve. When pork has all been browned, discard excess oil.
• Heat chicken fat or butter over medium heat in Dutch oven and slowly whisk in 3 cups flour to make a roux the consistency of wet sand. Brown roux, stirring constantly for about 10 minutes. Add onions, peppers, celery, garlic, Herbs de Provence, bay leaves and crushed tomatoes, and cook, stirring, for 2 minutes. Add tomato paste and cook for 10 minutes, stirring constantly. Add stock and salt, stir, and cook over medium heat until thickened, about 30 minutes. Return pork to Dutch oven and simmer over medium low heat for 2 hours, until meat is very tender.
• While pork is cooking, bring a gallon of water to boil in a large pot and whisk in grits. Reduce heat to medium and cook for 30 minutes, whisking often to prevent sticking. Reduce heat to low and cook grits for 1 1/2 hours more, stirring occasionally. Remove from heat, fold in butter, and season with salt.
• Season pork to taste and serve over grits.

Steps:

• Season beef with kosher salt, black pepper and garlic powder.
• Dust beef with about 1/3 cup flour and toss lightly.
• Spray a cast iron Dutch oven with cooking spray.
• Heat 4 tablespoons of bacon grease and 4 tablespoons of cooking oil (you may use all bacon grease, all solid shortening, or all cooking oil if desired).
• Brown meat in hot fat and remove to a large bowl using a slotted spoon.
• Leaving fat in Dutch oven, saute bell pepper, onions, celery, and garlic. Brown vegetables and remove to bowl with a slotted spoon, leaving fat in the pot.
• Add or take away to total 3 tablespoons of fat to make your roux.
• To make roux, add about 1/4 cup of flour, stirring constantly and slowly until flour is a nice deep brown, being careful not to burn the flour.
• Slowly add 4 cups of beef broth or water and stir. Bring to a simmer and add back beef and vegetables.
• Add bay leaves, thyme, hot sauce, Worcestershire sauce, salt, dried basil and stir.
• Add fresh tomatoes and 1 can extra hot tomatoes.
• Simmer for about 1 hour and 15 minutes, stirring occasionally.
• Just before serving, remove bay leaves and stir in 1/2 cup chopped parsley.
• Serve over your favorite hot buttered grits.

Steps:

• Combine thyme, peppers and salt.
• Brush veal with oil and coat with pepper mixture on both sides. Set aside while making sauce and grits.
• To serve, preheat oven to 500 degrees.
• Heat heavy pan and add 1 tablespoon oil.
• Sear meat quickly on all sides over high heat, about 4 minutes.
• Place veal in pan in oven and roast quickly, 7 to 10 minutes for rare. Slice meat thinly and place on heated plates with warm grits. Spoon sauce over.