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“Spin-Painted” Beet

Lesson time 29:45 min

Discover the secret ingredient in this striking vegetarian dish of roasted beets that is inspired by one of Massimo’s favorite artists, Damien Hirst. Its highly versatile sauces can be used in many other meat and vegetable preparations.

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Topics include: Making the Red Pepper Sauce • Making the “Roasted” Potato Sauce • Making the Herb “Chlorophyll” Sauce • Plating the Beet

Massimo Bottura

Teaches Modern Italian Cooking

Massimo Bottura teaches you his take on traditional Italian cooking—from risotto to tortellini—and shares techniques for reimagining your own recipes.

Preview

MASSIMO BOTTURA: We're going to teach you how to make a delicious vegetarian dish inspired by one of my favorite artists. The sauces in this recipe can be used in all kind of meat and vegetable dishes. You're going to want to use them everywhere. I'm back. Actually, we are back. Right? Today we're going to show you how to make a vegetarian dish. It's going to be called beautiful spin painted psychedelic beet, not flame grill. We're going to present it in aesthetic way as Damien Hirst, one of my favorite artists, is using color in the spin painting. And we're going to give the perception of your palette of eating grilled red beet. Actually, the red beet is not grilled, but it's just lightly smoked and cooked roasted in the oven. So first of all, we have to cook the beet. We have to prepare the beet. We're going to use like two foil like this. We're going to put the beet in the middle. And we're going to put salt in there, a little bit of extra virgin olive oil. We're going to wrap the beet, close the foil, and we're going to cook in the oven two hours on 200 degrees. We're going to burn them. All right? First of all, we need to roast the red pepper for 40 minutes at 180 degrees. Once we have the red pepper roasted, we're going to put in a bowl. And then we're going to close the bowl with plastic wrap. And we're going to leave it. At that point, we're going to open the bowl. And we're going to start peeling. And the skin is going to come out very, very easily, you know? Like that. And in a very easy way, you're going to clean them from the skin. We do this to discovering the perfect flavor of roasted red pepper sauce. We just to clean from every single things then can really alterate the flavor. And the skin can really gives you some bad taste that is not what we wanted. And also it's not digestible. So when I say that the chef is using the technique and the knowledge for the ingredients to let the ingredient express himself, it's just for this reason. Taka clean the red pepper, but it's just pure water, like hot water, to clean the pepper from all these seeds and leftover from the imperfection of the skin. Taka is cutting with his knife that is a vegetable knife. And he's cutting filet because we're going to create the sauce. It is very, very easy sauce. But most of the time, this solution for your problem are in a simplicity, because it's very, very important. Sometimes you get crazy on find incredible technique that you don't go anywhere. OK. Taka is putting in a pan the pulp of the pepper with all the juices. Don't do like that like Taka does, because if you have a very sharp knife, going this direction close to your hand, you can cut yourself very easily, because when the knife is very sharp. You have to be a professional to do that kind of stuff. So help with some spatula or something. And you can do it and get all the juices in there. Then we're going to add a couple of spoons of vinegar. I sai...

About the Instructor

Massimo Bottura, chef of the three-Michelin-star Osteria Francescana, treats his world-renowned restaurant as a laboratory of ideas. In his MasterClass, he shares how he transforms classic, regional Italian recipes into exciting modern dishes. You’ll learn how to make rich, flavorful tagliatelle al ragù, pumpkin risotto, and a MasterClass-exclusive Emilia Burger recipe. Develop your palate and embark on a culinary adventure.

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