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Tagliatelle al Ragu Bolognese
Silvia Malaguti
Sfoglina, Osteria della Fossa, Bologna, IT
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Tagliatelle al Ragu Bolognese

5 h 30 min total90 min hands-onServes 6Medium

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The Bologna ragu: milk before wine, four hours, and almost no tomato at all.

WHAT YOU GET

  • The chef's hidden note — the technique no cookbook prints
  • Every component built from scratch, each with its own spec
  • Films on choosing and judging the produce before you buy it
  • Gross and net gram weights for every ingredient, per portion
  • Time and temperature at each stage, as run in the restaurant
  • A photo at every step that can go wrong
  • Substitutions for anything hard to find where you live
  • What usually goes wrong, and what to do about it

Yours for good once bought. Updates from the chef included.

BEFORE YOU BUY

Equipment
Rolling pin or pasta machine, Heavy casserole, Long knife, Wide board
Allergens
Gluten, Egg, Milk, Sulphites
Method
32 steps · 26 photographed · 9 filmed
Components
3 made from scratch
Films
3, 22 min

3 RECIPES INSIDE THIS RECIPE

Each with its own weights, steps and timings

The sauce, the cure, the dough, the dressing — a restaurant makes these itself, and so will you. Every one below is a full sub-recipe: its own ingredient list, its own method, its own yield and shelf life. Nothing says «use shop-bought».

Sfoglia, rolled by hand

Film

Egg and 00 flour worked into a stiff dough, rested, and rolled thin enough to read through.

Dried tagliatelle is smooth and the ragu slides off. Hand-rolled sheet is porous and rough, which is why Bologna insists on it.

  • Type 00 flour000 g
  • Eggs000 g
Steps
8
Time
1.5 h
Hands-on
60 min

Makes 600 g fresh pasta · dry 1 hour or use within 2 days

Up to 1 day ahead, nested and dusted

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Soffritto

Onion, carrot and celery cut fine and sweated in butter and pancetta fat for the better part of an hour.

Rushed soffritto leaves the sauce with a raw vegetable edge that four hours of simmering will not remove.

  • Onion000 g
  • Carrot000 g
Steps
5
Time
55 min
Hands-on
25 min

Makes 350 g

Up to 3 days ahead

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The ragu

Film

Hand-cut beef and pork browned, then milk absorbed, then wine, then a little tomato and four hours.

The order is the recipe. Milk into the meat before any acid is what keeps the ragu tender rather than tight.

  • Beef skirt000 g
  • Pork belly000 g
Steps
10
Time
4.5 h
Hands-on
35 min

Makes 1.4 kg · keeps 4 days, freezes 3 months

Better made a day ahead

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WEIGHED

INGREDIENTS

A taste of the list · the rest locked

A few ingredients to show you what the dish is built on. Every one on the full list carries a gross and a net weight per portion, and a note on what you can swap it for where you live.

  • Type 00 flour000 g
  • Eggs000 g
  • Beef skirt000 g
  • Pork belly000 g
  • Pancetta000 g
The full list, weighed, unlocks on purchase

WATCH BEFORE YOU SHOP

3 films · 22 min

Most of what goes wrong is decided at the counter, before you cook anything. These are filmed by the chef: what to buy, how to tell it is good, and how to set your own kitchen up for it.

CHOOSING7:00

Which cuts to ask for, and why not to buy mince

TECHNIQUE9:00

Rolling a sfoglia by hand

KIT6:00

Machine versus rolling pin: what changes

METHOD

STEP BY STEP — 32 STEPS

26 photographed · 9 filmed

Written the way a restaurant writes a technical card: one operation per step, each with its own time and temperature. 26 of the 32 carry a photo of what it should look like at that moment, and 9 carry a short clip for the parts a still cannot show.

Hardest step: rolling the sheet thin without tearing — step 19 of 32.

  1. 01

    Read the whole method before you start, then weigh everything out. Every timing below assumes the next ingredient is already within reach.

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  2. 02
  3. 03
  4. 04
  5. 05
  6. 06
  7. + 26 more steps, timed and photographed

WHERE IT USUALLY GOES WRONG

3 things Silvia Malaguti watches for every service. You can read what they are right now — the answer to each one comes with the recipe.

  1. 01

    Milk before wine, always

    What to do about it
  2. 02

    Cutting the pasta wide, 8 mm

    What to do about it
  3. 03

    Finishing the pasta in the ragu with a ladle of water

    What to do about it
The chef's hidden note

The milk stage before the wine, and how coarse the meat is cut so it stays meat instead of turning to mince.

Written by Silvia Malaguti. Visible only to people who bought this recipe.

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NOTES FROM THE KITCHENS

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