Beef Braciole - The Single Best Italian Comfort Meal

Make sure to subscribe to our podcast: youtube.com/@sipandfeastpodcast. This week's episode #42 asks the question "What is the Best Way to Learn to Cook?". We also taste-test Trader Joe's snacks and spreads. The ingredient amounts (also in grams) are right in the description and the print recipe is linked there as well. As always, thanks for liking our recipes and videos and sharing our family table each week. P.S. - If you have watched this channel from early on, you might be wondering about the older beef braciole video? It had audio issues (sound coming out of one ear) and some other "beginner mistakes". It was time that I redid this classic. This recipe is fairly close, but I did streamline the stuffing and improved it a bit, which is what I always attempt to do with my cooking. Enjoy!

Also, James "stuffing his face for 5 minutes" is a pretty entertaining review in an of itself. Having fed a lot of kids, I think silence while inhaling the food is pretty much the best compliment a dish can get.

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I would use the wine to rinse the tomato cans, but that’s just the frugal grandmother in me talking. I love your videos. Very accessible for the home cook. You show us that Italian food doesn’t have to be hard.

There’s something so gratifying about seeing a youngster who really appreciates good food. It’s like a sort of innate wisdom, and thoughtfulness.

Your boy has a hell of a palate, picking out raisins and pine nuts. Can tell he was raised on good food. Good work, sir.

We make braciole for Christmas dinner. We have an assembly line of visiting relatives putting them together. We usually make 50+ at a time. We call them our Italian tamales! 😉

The chair wants its shirt back.

The "James test" is important. Many of us have finicky teens, and James' approval gives us an idea of how the dish will work for them. Your cooking is making him grow like a weed.

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I just watched an old episode of Everyone Loves Raymond yesterday where Debra made Braciole and now here you are with the recipe. Yay!

You do not need to apologize for anything. You are terrific at what you do and I have to say as a parent. Happy Father’s Day.

I just love your channel! No fluff, straightforward recipes, and a real family enjoying food and time spent together.

I loved how the taste tester pushed his sleeves up before he dug in.

LOVED the comments of your taste tester. And James nailed the pine nuts and raisin ingredients spot on! I wouldn't mind watching him eat for 5 minutes. Isn't that one of the best parts of being a chef? Watching others enjoy your food? Absolutely LOVE your channel, your videos, your recipes, the teaching you do along with the recipes, your interplay with your expert camerawoman =) , everything. I learn so much about Italian cooking. My best friend's husband grew up on Long Island and I can't wait to share your channel with them. Thank you so much for everything you share with us.

My nanny taught us to make this, she was from Abruzzi, no pine nuts or raisins. Just rich seasoning of the meat, with pecorino and parsley, salt, pepper, oregano and garlic.

When you follow Chef Jean-Pierre and Sip and Feast... its a massive Braciole fest on your feed :)

I've never seen braciole made like my great aunt made it. She was from Sicily and used pork belly. Talk about heart stopping. But bless her she lived to be a very active 90yrs. Old!

When I was growing up, my cousins came to visit from out of town. My mother made a recipe that called for raisins in the meatballs. My cousins have never recovered from the trauma, and still mention it every time they visit, 40 years later.

My grandmother and mother used to put salami cubes and hard boiled eggs along with the breadcrumbs, then rolled it up. My grandmother is from Sicily.