Video Tutorials

How To Make Ragu Sauce

This tutorial shows you how to make a great tomato based sauce, Ragu.

Chop the onion, carrot and celery together, heat a small amount of extra virgin olive oil in the bottom of a pan and fry the chopped onion, celery and carrot until soft. Add the minced meat and opened sausage and allow to cook until the meat is quite dry. Add the wine and let it evaporate.

Add the tomatoes and cloves, and if the tomatoes are peeled, break them up with a wooden spoon. Allow to simmer until the meat and sauce are unified (about one hour.) Stir occasionally. Read more

How to make Focaccia

A chef details how to make real Italian focaccia. Step by step instructions are presented in this video which makes it easy to follow.

Today, I’m going to show you how to make focaccia. Here we’ve got 500 grams of strong flour. I have 325 mil of water (tepid water). I’ve got 15 grams of fresh yeast (but you could use a sachet of 7 grams of dried yeast). I’ve got 2 teaspoons of salt and I’m going to put in two tablespoons of olive oil. Read more

How to make Bruschetta

We love Italian food! In this tutorial our expert Italian Chefs show you how to make a delicious and very healthy Italian classic, bruschetta. This quintessential Italian dish is perfect as a starter or great on it’s own as a tasty snack.

Today I’m going to show you how to make tomato Bruschetta. You’ll need some Salado bread, toast it in the oven so its nice and crispy. Then 500 grams of plum tomatoes, try and find the ripest freshest ones you can, pick the best you can find with a nice strong smell.
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How to make stuffed pasta shells

Our expert Italian chefs talk you through creating the finest Italian cuisine at home in your own kitchen. These Lumaconi stuffed pasta shells are a traditional Italian dish and are stuffed with a delicious spinach and ricotta filling with a rich and creamy white sauce.

Step 1: Make the rue
Today I’m going to show you how to make a stuffed pasta, which in Italian is called Lumiconi, it’s a pasta shell. First of all you need to do the Béchamel sauce , then we need to do a tomato sauce and then we need to do a stuffing for the pasta shell. To make the rue you melt the butter, put your flour into the butter and stir it whilst it cooks. Read more

How to make a basic Italian tomato sauce

Basic Italian Tomato Sauce Recipe. Everyone should know how to make a basic pasta sauce and this one is ideal. Renowned chef, Katie Caldesi, takes us step by step in creating this classic. Appreciate our Basic Italian Tomato Sauce recipe. Read more

How to make Italian beef

This VideoJug film shows you how to make a delicious Italian Beef Stew. So follow this simple video to learn how, step by step.

Steps
Now, I am going to show you how to make an Italian beef stew. Fantastic! There we are. We have 1.

2 kilos of beef chopped meat, we have one onion, we have 50 grams of butter, 50 mil of olive oil, 800 grams of plum tomato, and we got some bay leaves, garlic and nutmeg. So, this is quite interesting. And what we are going to do, the first stage of this dish, is put your olive oil and butter inside a pot, and then a little bit of black pepper. Read more

How to make a margherita pizza

Here’s a great recipe of the mozzarella pizza, the Italian way. It’s so easy to follow, that you can confidently go ahead and make your own pizza at home.

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Today, I’m going to show you how to make Pizza Margherita. We’ve got, for the base, 500 grams of double zero flour, 10 grams of fresh yeast, but you could use 7 grams, one sachet of dried yeast. I’ve got two heaped teaspoons of salt, a 120 ml of water, 200 ml of beer and the flour as I’ve said. Read more

How to make an octopus salad

Author of the book “The Italian Cookery Course”, Katie Caldesi demonstrates how easy it is to make an Octopus Salad in this brilliantly done, easy-to-follow 5-minute video.

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Today, I’m going to show you an authentic Italian recipe. I’m going to show you how to make an Octopus Salad. Here, I’ve got a beautiful octopus. Read more

How to make a tomato basil sauce

Tomato sauce is a staple of Italian cuisine and this is an easy and simple home style recipe for a simple tomato sauce with infused vegetables and basil.

Steps
I am going to show you how to make tomato sauce. Here, I have got 800 grams of plum tomatoes. These are good Italian plum tomatoes, whole ones, not chopped.
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How to make tuna pasta

This VideoJug film will show you how to make a delicious authentic Italian tuna pasta dish in a few easy steps.

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Today, I am going to show you how to make tuna pasta. So, the ingredients are a couple tablespoons of olives, some rough chopped parsley, three tablespoons of capers, one hundred and thirty grams of tuna, three hundred and twenty grams of pasta. That will serve exactly four people. Read more

How to make pasta pomodoro

This video is all about how to prepare Pasta Pomodoro, an all-time favorite Itailian dish liked by everyone in the whole world. It’s simple to make, requiring less ingredients and less time to prepare. Enjoy it!

Steps
I am going to show you how to cook Pasta Pomodoro. Here, I have got 800 grams of plum tomatoes, these are good Italian plum tomatoes, whole ones, not the chopped. I have got a spring of basil, a stick of celery, one carrot cut in half and one onion. Read more