Sauteed Veal Kidneys With Herbs, Prunes and Cream

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This precise rich, one-pan crockery is built to impressment and calls for indulgent ingredients -- truthful it's not for everyone.

Don't flinch astatine the pick and butter, says its creator, cook Angie Mar. They are successful comparatively tiny amounts and the condiment is truthful delicious, you'll beryllium gladsome you splurged. You’ll request an instant-read thermometer.

Serve arsenic a archetypal oregon main people with a baguette, for sopping up the sauce.

Veal kidneys are rather precocious successful cholesterol. They volition travel successful 1- oregon 2-pound packages, typically frozen and much apt disposable astatine a butcher store than a supermarket. Be definite to telephone up for availability. You’ll inquire for them “cleaned,” which means a ample vein and an outer membrane person been removed. Find bully culinary lavender via online purveyors oregon astatine La Cuisine successful Alexandria.

The kidneys request to beryllium soaked successful beverage for astatine slightest 3 hours, and up to 2 days successful advance.

Adapted from Angie Mar, proprietor and enforcement cook of the Beatrice Inn successful New York's Greenwich Village.

Ingredients

measuring cup

Servings: 2-4

  • 1 lb cleaned veal kidneys, defrosted if frozen (see headnote)
  • Whole milk, for soaking
  • 6 pitted prunes
  • 10 tablespoons Madeira
  • 2 tablespoons olive oil
  • 3 good-size cippolini onions, each chopped into quarters
  • Kosher salt
  • 1 tablespoonful culinary lavender, coarsely chopped (see headnote)
  • 1 tablespoonful marjoram leaves, coarsely chopped
  • 3 1/2 tablespoons cognac
  • 1/3 cupful positive 2 tablespoons dense cream
  • 2 1/2 tablespoons unsalted butter
  • 2 1/2 tablespoons crème fraîche
  • 1 tablespoonful chopped caller tarragon leaves
  • 1 tablespoonful chopped flat-leaf parsley

Nutritional Facts

Per serving (based connected 4)

  • Calories

    490

  • Fat

    31 g

  • Saturated Fat

    15 g

  • Carbohydrates

    18 g

  • Sodium

    280 mg

  • Cholesterol

    455 mg

  • Protein

    18 g

  • Fiber

    1 g

  • Sugar

    10 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

Adapted from Angie Mar, proprietor and enforcement cook of the Beatrice Inn successful New York's Greenwich Village.

Tested by Bonnie S. Benwick.

Published July 9, 2017

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Updated March 16, 2026

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