Maltese Baked Beef Olives (Bragioli l-Forn)

Ingredients:

8 very thin slices of beef (for 4 persons)

3 hard boiled eggs

8 slices of streaky bacon

4 sausages (preferably Maltese)

Cheddar Cheese (optional)

One red onion

Fresh garlic

Fresh parsley

1 pint of Ale.

Salt and Pepper

Cooking Instructions:

Chop the eggs, bacon, sausages and cheddar cheese and mix in a bowl. Add salt, pepper and fresh parsley, if no Maltese sausage was found, you may add some Coriander Seeds. Open a slice of beef and place approx. 2 tablespoons of mixture towards the edge of the steak. Roll the steak and fold (like a Spring Roll). Stick a tooth-pick right through, to hold the fold. Preheat oven (half). In a large frying pan heat some oil, and fry the beef olives with some garlic, till blood is slightly drained. Prepare a medium sized dish, and place the beef olives side by side in this dish. Slice the onion and place in dish. Drown half the beef olives in beer and add salt and pepper to taste. Cover with baking foil and put in preheated oven for about 45 mins. Uncover the dish and cook for a further 30 mins. You may serve with traditional baked potatoes.

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