Meat Roulade Stuffed with Hard-Boiled Egg with homemade tomato paste – Gluten-free version

👨‍🍳 Method

For the homemade tomato paste ✓ Homemade · or skip – back to store-bought

1. 1
   Wash the tomatoes, remove the cores and quarter each tomato.

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2. 2
   Put the tomatoes, the salt and half of the olive oil in a wide pot, cover and cook over medium heat about 20 minutes, until the tomatoes soften and release their liquid.

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3. 3
   Pass the tomatoes and their liquid through a food mill or sieve and return the purée to the pot: the skins and seeds stay behind.

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4. 4
   Cook uncovered about an hour at a lively simmer, stirring now and then, until the purée reduces by half.

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   💡The paste burns easily as it dries: stir and scrape the bottom and edges, and once it is thick, don't walk away.
5. 5
   Preheat the oven to 110°C (230°F).

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   💡Put things in the oven only once it's reached temperature, after the heating light has gone off: an oven that hasn't reached temperature changes baking times, and the bake burns outside or stays underbaked.
6. 6
   Grease a wide baking dish with the rest of the olive oil and pour in the purée in a thin layer. Dry in the oven about 3 hours, stirring and scraping the edges every 30 minutes, until the paste is thick, sticky and brick red.

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7. 7
   Let the paste cool.

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For the Meatball mix

1. 8
   Preheat the oven to 175°C (345°F).

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2. 9
   Mix the ground meat with the onion, garlic, egg, gluten-free breadcrumbs, cumin, paprika, salt and black pepper until evenly combined.

For the Tomato sauce

1. 10
   In the baking dish, mix the tomato paste, water and sugar with the salt. The sauce cooks in the oven with the dish.

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To assemble

1. 11
   Spread the meat mixture on Parchment into a rectangle.

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2. 12
   Lay the eggs in a row along the meat and sprinkle the cheese over it.
3. 13
   Roll with the help of Parchment into a tight roulade and seal the ends.
4. 14
   Place the roulade in the sauce in the baking dish.

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5. 15
   Bake 50–55 minutes.

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6. 16
   Let rest 10 minutes.
7. 17
   Slice into rounds and serve.

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