Roulade

Culinary definition of roulade: To roll meat, seafood, vegetables, fruit, cake or bread into a cylindrical shape, or log.

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Roulade of veal, eggplant roulade, spongecake roulade - all rolls of sorts.  A jellyroll is a roulade, as is porchetta (porkloin wrapped in pork belly, with a layer of herbed stuffing).  To simply roll an ingredient without 'stuffing' it or first spreading on a layer of some sort of filling - jellyroll spongecake with jam, for example - may technically be a roulade, but practically it isn't.

✭ ✭ ✭ Great Food Truck Idea.  We love traditional German beef roulade or rouladen (right), but we prefer it next-day, sliced and layered with its side-dishes of braised red cabbage, wild rice, gravy and grainy mustard, on caraway rye bread.   Without a doubt rouladen sandwiches is the next great Food Truck idea.  We held neighborhood 'Best Potential Food Truck Sandwich' competitions two years in a row and it was no contest; all contestants admitted defeat on tasting the rouladen sandwich.  Dare: try it at home and tell us we're wrong ...

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