ox cheek ragu

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Ox Cheek Ragu, a classic Italian meat sauce, a few weeks back I uploaded an authentic Bolognese recipe and I carefully followed the rules by omitting garlic, herbs and stock. For this ox cheek ragu recipe I wanted to showcase a fantastic cheap cut of beef 'the cheek'.

A cow grazes all day and this makes it's cheek very tough with sinues running through the muscle, this makes it very tough and requires several hours of gently cooking to tenderise it. There isn't actually much work involved for the cook, but you cannot rush it, so take time to get the cheeks browned then combine with sofrito, wine and tomatoes and real slow cook it until those tough sinues break down and the resulting flavour punch and gorgeous gelatinous texture is to die for.

I also made a fresh wild garlic fettuccine to go with this ox cheek ragu, let me know if you would like to see more homemade pasta recipes.