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Meatballs, three meats
Marco Dellucci
Chef, Osteria Nove, Modena, IT
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Meatballs, three meats

1 h 15 min total45 min hands-onServes 4Easy

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Three meats, one panade, and a browning step that does not dry the middle.

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
Heavy pan, Baking tray
Allergens
Gluten, Egg, Milk
Method
24 steps · 12 photographed · 4 filmed
Components
2 made from scratch
Films
2, 8 min

2 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».

Panade

Film

Stale crumb soaked in milk and mashed to a paste, worked into the meat before anything else.

Dry breadcrumbs soak juice up; a wet paste holds it, which is why these stay soft after 40 minutes in sauce.

  • Stale white bread, crusts off000 g
  • Whole milk000 g
Steps
5
Time
35 min
Hands-on
8 min

Makes 300 g · use within 24 hours, kept cold

Up to 24 hours ahead, refrigerated; or 20 minutes before you mix

Weights and method unlock on purchase

Tomato braise

Film

A slow tomato sauce started in the searing pan, which the browned meatballs then finish cooking in.

A jar has never met the meat, so it misses the browned bits left in the pan, and it turns flat and sharp over 40 minutes of cooking.

  • Tinned whole peeled tomatoes000 g
  • Extra virgin olive oil000 g
Steps
9
Time
1.6 h
Hands-on
25 min

Makes 1.4 litres · keeps 5 days refrigerated, 3 months frozen

Up to 3 days ahead, but braise the meatballs in it on the day

Weights and method unlock on purchase
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.

  • Beef mince000 g
  • Pork mince000 g
  • Veal mince000 g
  • Stale bread000 g
  • Whole milk000 g
The full list, weighed, unlocks on purchase

WATCH BEFORE YOU SHOP

2 films · 8 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.

CHOOSING4:00

Asking for the right mince ratio

TECHNIQUE4:00

Mixing to the point and no further

METHOD

STEP BY STEP — 24 STEPS

12 photographed · 4 filmed

Written the way a restaurant writes a technical card: one operation per step, each with its own time and temperature. 12 of the 24 carry a photo of what it should look like at that moment, and 4 carry a short clip for the parts a still cannot show.

Hardest step: searing without cooking the centre through — step 14 of 24.

  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. + 18 more steps, timed and photographed

WHERE IT USUALLY GOES WRONG

2 things Marco Dellucci watches for every service. You can read what they are right now — the answer to each one comes with the recipe.

  1. 01

    Wet hands, even balls

    What to do about it
  2. 02

    Browning without drying the middle

    What to do about it
The chef's hidden note

The panade ratio, and why mixing past a certain point ruins the texture.

Written by Marco Dellucci. Visible only to people who bought this recipe.

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NOTES FROM THE KITCHENS

12 verified cooks · 85% said it worked

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