Beef Cheek Ragù Kit

A ragù worth waiting for. This is slow food in the truest sense. Beef cheek and a soffritto of onion, carrot and celery, braised low and slow for three to four hours until the meat melts into the sauce.

Rich, deeply savoury and the kind of thing that makes the whole kitchen smell extraordinary.

Ragù simply means meat sauce, and almost every region of Italy has their own version, each one fiercely defended as the only correct one. In Bologna it is the famous slow-cooked sauce of tagliatelle al ragù, the dish the world incorrectly calls spaghetti bolognese. In Naples it becomes a long Sunday affair, a whole piece of meat simmered for hours in tomato. In Calabria it is spiced and punchy. Each version tells you something about where it comes from.

Ours sits somewhere in the northern tradition. Beef cheek and minced meat braised low and slow, with red wine, tomatoes and a little milk added near the end. That last addition is borrowed from the Bolognese school of thought, softening the acidity and giving the sauce a richness that is hard to put your finger on but impossible to miss.

Your kit contains a pouch of slow-braised beef cheek ragù, a small pot of freshly grated Parmesan and your fresh pappardelle.

Sauce Ingredients: Chopped Tomatoes, Water, Beef Cheeks, Ground Beef, Red Wine (Sulphites), Whole Milk, Ground Pork, Brown Onion, Tomato Paste, Carrot, Celery, Olive Oil, Salt, Peppercorn. Contains: Milk, Sulphites

Pasta Ingredients: High Grade Flour (Wheat), Durum Flour (Wheat), Whole Egg, Egg Yolk. Contains: Wheat, Gluten, Egg

Topping Ingredients: Parmesan (Milk). Contains: Milk

Full dish contains: Wheat, Gluten, Egg, Milk, Sulphites

Each kit is a double portion, 200g of pasta, 160g of sauce. Because good food is always better with someone else at the table. Or just you, twice.