Braciole: Recreating my Grandfather’s Italian Recipe

I remember Papa, my Italian grandfather, making braciole. He was a first generation Italian immigrant who lived most of his life in Boston, and later retired to Florida. I grew up around the corner. I don’t remember eating this as a kid, but I remember going over to his house and he would be entrenched in making braciole in the kitchen.

It’s basically a roulade simmered in tomato sauce. I went looking to recreate his Italian recipe but no one had it, so from doing a little research and putting together what everyone remembered, this is what we came up with. It was delicious and simple! In my research, I learned that braciole was an Italian-American dish. In Italy, you would call it involtini.