Lean, soft, tasty, which melts in your mouth: the fans of the raw meat, a joke if they expect it exactly like that. No cooking, little seasoning, no sauces: it is a dish of the Piedmontese tradition that must focus everything on the quality and the goodness of the raw material, because from here you can not escape. When we prepare it, we can not do anything else but choose carefully the meat – and the right cut.

Because the Fassona is better

Our suggestion is to use the meat of Piedmontese cattle breed, the one with huge buttocks and very muscular thighs that was selected from the late nineteenth century in Guarene d'Alba, in the province of Cuneo, and that the breeders began to call Fassone: the right amount of intramuscular fat makes it lean, but particularly tasty, and with an extremely low cholesterol level.

The joke: a tradition of more than 20 years

The raw meat, for more than twenty years, for the association of cattle breeders La Granda yes strictly knifed (unground), exclusively from cuts of the bovine's front and seasoned only with a drizzle of extra virgin olive oil, salt and (for those who want) a little pepper. In 1997 the founder Sergio Capaldo, the then pioneer of a new way of breeding, did so and still today we eat in all the Eataly restaurants, which use the meat of the prestigious association.

"La cruda" by Eataly

The association La Granda brings together numerous farms family-run of Piedmont: animals are fed with natural foods, almost all products in the farm, such as corn, barley, bran, fava beans and hay, are not given their silage, vitamin supplements, GMOs, and are grown slowly. This is where the raw material comes from a symbolic dish that Eataly offers in all its restaurants: "La Cruda". Seasoned only with a drizzle of extra-virgin olive oil and a pinch of salt, it is paired from time to time with ingredients capable of exalting it at best, like a mixture of capers, anchovies and semi-dried tomatoes.

And if you want instead try making a joke at home, La Granda meat can also be found in the Butcher's shop of Eataly!