
How To Make Watercress and Roast Beef Involtini
Peppery watercress, crisp cabbage, and bright onions are packed into rolls of juicy roast beef to yield this belly-filling roast beef involtini recipe!
Serves:
Ingredients
- 1½tbspextra virgin olive oil
- 1½tbsplemon juice,fresh
- 1½cupssmall watercress sprigs,packed
- ¾cupred cabbage,finely shredded
- ¼cupred onion,very thinly sliced
- salt and freshly ground pepper
- 1lbroast beef,(about 16 slices), rare
- pesto
Instructions
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In a medium bowl, whisk the olive oil with the lemon juice. Add the watercress, cabbage and onion, season with salt and pepper and toss.
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Spread the roast beef slices on a work surface in pairs, overlapping them slightly along the sides, so you have eight 7×8-inch rectangles. Season the roast beef with salt and pepper.
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Mound the watercress salad on the meat and roll into tight cylinders. Trim the ends and cut the rolls into thirds.
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Sprinkle with salt, dot with pesto and serve. Enjoy!
Recipe Notes
 Make Ahead: The rolls can be refrigerated for up to 1 hour.
Nutrition
- Calories:Â 47.00kcal
- Fat:Â 3.15g
- Saturated Fat:Â 1.02g
- Monounsaturated Fat:Â 1.61g
- Polyunsaturated Fat:Â 0.18g
- Carbohydrates:Â 0.50g
- Fiber:Â 0.12g
- Sugar:Â 0.20g
- Protein:Â 4.02g
- Cholesterol:Â 14.17mg
- Sodium:Â 62.37mg
- Calcium:Â 7.02mg
- Potassium:Â 76.81mg
- Iron:Â 0.39mg
- Vitamin A: 4.13µg
- Vitamin C:Â 2.76mg
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