Clem's Tagliatelle alla Bolognese
 


Many people refer to this dish of pasta with a tomato-meat sauce as spaghetti Bolognese (spaghetti Bologna style).
Despite the commonly used name of the dish, you will not find spaghetti Bolognese in Bologna so do not ask for it there.
The tomato-meat sauce up in northern Italy is called a ragu and the pasta used is tagliatelle instead of spaghetti (to make it even more confusing, tagliatelle is known as fettuccine in Southern Italy from Rome downwards).
It makes sense really, because it's all about having the sauce stick to the pasta. In this case, the flat-shaped tagliatelle works better than round-shaped spaghetti.
While we are on the subject of what is not Italian, cappucino in Italy is a morning (breakfast) drink.
It is generally not consumed after 11 a.m.

The ragu above comprises fried sliced onions and garlic, minced beef, Swiss Brown mushrooms, baby plum tomatoes, and an off-the-shelf tomato ragu sauce. The dish is prepared northern Italian style where the ragu and the pasta are mixed together in the last step of cooking. The dish is topped with grated Parmesan cheese before serving.

Clem in Bologna in the last century.

 





 

 

12 May 2020
 


 

 

 

 



Created by Clem Kuek