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  • You can make the pasta and a good meat ragu in 20 minutes?

  • Two things in 20 minutes. I think it's doable.

  • I trust you, but I really want to see it.

  • Right, so the first thing you need to do is to prepare the ragu sauce.

  • A ragu sauce is a sort of meaty sauce, normally with ground meat

  • or minced meat.

  • I'm not mincing it because I quite like it

  • with more texture.

  • What we have here is a shoulder of lamb. A bit of sinew on it,

  • so if they're going to hand cut it like I am, I'm going to have

  • to cut it quite fine. I think I'd mince it, Chef.

  • I think most people probably would.

  • That's going to be brave chef to do what Monica's doing, I think.

  • So, I have a hot pan here.

  • Now, I want this meat in there, sealing.

  • PAN SIZZLES

  • I think the difficulty with this particular challenge is trying

  • to get some flavour in 20 minutes.

  • Everyone knows that making a ragu or a bolognese sauce takes hours,

  • but it is achievable.

  • A sort of lip-smacking sauce is what you want.

  • So, I've got my vegetables in here. You can smell the garlic.

  • So, now I'm deglazing the pan with some white wine.

  • I'm going to bring more flavour to my sauce, but I need to reduce

  • this down before I add the stock to it.

  • So the vegetables are going to absorb all of the sauce as well,

  • are they? Absolutely. OK.

  • So, I've just added some reduced lamb stock to the pan.

  • You can see it's come up to the boil and then I want this to gently cook.

  • So a nice rolling simmer.

  • So, into the boiling water.

  • That's going to take only a couple of minutes, if that.

  • I've just added some butter, bring a bit more richness to my sauce.

  • Bit of a shine.

  • So, I'm just finishing it with some chives on the top

  • and now I'm going to serve it.

  • Hey. That's pretty.

  • Phwoar! Come on!

  • There we have it. Lovely.

  • Hand-cut tagliatelle pasta with a lamb ragu.

  • Very good. That's a quality sauce in 20 minutes.

  • I mean, you know it's a good sauce, look at the shine on it. Beautiful.

  • It's about bringing as much flavour that you'd want in a ragu

  • in 20 minutes.

You can make the pasta and a good meat ragu in 20 minutes?

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