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Tagliatelle With Hand-Chopped Ragù (Meat Sauce)
Lesson time 24:56 min
Tagliatelle with ragù is the dish that put Osteria Francescana on the map. Massimo teaches you his version that uses hand-chopped (not ground) beef and time to maximize flavor.
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Topics include: Browning the Cuts of Beef • Adding the Tomato Concentrate, Herbs, and Broth • Chopping the Meat by Hand • Cooking the Fresh Tagliatelle
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Massimo Bottura teaches you his take on traditional Italian cooking—from risotto to tortellini—and shares techniques for reimagining your own recipes.
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MASSIMO BOTTURA: We're going to teach you my version of a classic Italian dish, Tagliatelle a Ragu. This recipe is very important to me. Because when we start serving at Osteria Francescana, people finally started coming to the restaurant. And we show the locals that we could cook better than their grandmothers. Taka's going to help us to cook a very, very important recipe. Tagliatelle a Ragu means, you know, pasta la bolognese, whatever you want to call. So Taka now is preparing, cutting, and chopping celery, onions, and carrot. And Taka, with his skills and his knowledge and the art of using his knife, is chopping carrots in a perfect brunoise, perfect shaped cubes. [MUSIC PLAYING] So Taka is starting with a little bit of extra virgin olive oil, right? Right, Taka? - Si. MASSIMO BOTTURA: A little bit. And-- and you put some bone marrow. And you start with very low heat. Because, you know, you have to caress the-- the ingredient with the fire. You have to use technique to concentrate the flavor of the meat. And each preparation is done in a-- with a different step. Taka starts with carrots, because are the harder one, you know. And once the carrots are half cook, kind of soft, he add the onion. And always remember, very low heat in the fire is like medium low fire. And celery, onions is sweetness and the celery is freshness. Smells delicious. In a different pan, we're going to start with adding the sausage. I'm going to switch with Taka, keep this stir. And we're going to add the sausage. This is a classic sausage from the area. It's just pure pork meat and with a little bit of pepper, and a little bit of salt. No spices at all, you know. Remove the sausage from its casing, so it's just the meat. The smell is amazing, you know. It's like you can feel the-- how good and, you know, tasty is this kind of meat. So the sausage is almost ready. And we're going to go with some paper to remove all the fat in excess. This is a very important trick that you should learn, just to add to this ragu, the flavor and not the fat. Perfecto, no? - Si. MASSIMO BOTTURA: At this point, we add the sausage to the vegetables. You see, there's no no fat at all, you know, left. It's like zero. Go. This is the most important moment. Because in the beginning, you're going to give the flavor to the-- to the meat, you know. This is the moment in which you are building your own future, the ragu. So right now you have the bone marrow at the bottom, that is hugging the celery, carrot, and onion, and the pungent flavor of sausage that is there. This is slow food. And you do everything step by step. Because cooking is an act of love. And you have to do it slowly, step by step. Don't be-- don't run, you don't go anywhere. If you are in a hurry, you can't cook. Cooking is also a way to put together a family, you know, a way to stay with your friends. Cooking is a-- is-- is something, you know, you do it because you feel it. [MUS...
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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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