🇧🇴 Bolivian Cuisine

Enrollado

Rolled Beef with Vegetables

Prep Time 30 min
Servings 8
Difficulty Hard
Calories 374 kcal

A festive rolled beef roast stuffed with hard-boiled eggs, carrots, and green beans, sliced to reveal a colorful pinwheel pattern, served cold or warm.

Ingredients

  • 1.5kg beef flank, butterflied flat
  • 4 hard-boiled eggs, peeled
  • 2 carrots, blanched whole
  • 100g green beans, blanched
  • 2 cloves garlic, minced
  • 1 tsp cumin
  • 1 tsp paprika
  • Salt and pepper
  • 2 tbsp oil

Instructions

  1. 1 Butterfly beef flank and pound to even thickness. Season with garlic, cumin, paprika, salt, and pepper.
  2. 2 Lay hard-boiled eggs in a line down the center. Place carrots and green beans alongside.
  3. 3 Roll the beef tightly around the filling. Tie firmly with kitchen twine at 3cm intervals.
  4. 4 Sear the roll in oil on all sides until browned.
  5. 5 Roast at 170°C (340°F) for 1.5 hours until beef is tender.
  6. 6 Rest 15 min, remove twine, slice into 2cm rounds revealing the colorful pinwheel pattern.

Did You Know?

The beauty of enrollado is in the cross-section — Bolivian cooks compete to achieve the most perfectly centered egg spiral.

From The Culinary Codex — http://theculinarycodex.com/dish/bolivian/enrollado/