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ANTONIO AMAGO: BRAISED CALF CHEEKS

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Madrid

Chef-proprietor, La de Espronceda

Dish: Braised Calf or Ox Cheeks / Cabeza de Ternera a Guisado

Madrid-born Antonio Amago was the first Spanish chef I knew who left the world of alta cocina to set up his own affordable bistro-style restaurant, La de Espronceda, in Lavapiés. At the weekend, when the bar is stacked high with pintxos, many of Altamiras’s favourite ingredients can be spotted here: pumpkin, tomato, cabbage, minced Ibérico pig’s trotter, onion sofrito and goat’s cheese are layered, wrapped, spiced and matched with secondary flavours, then laid on bread.  One of Antonio’s classic restaurant dishes is a main course of braised free-range pork or calf cheeks in an unctuous red wine sauce. I asked Antonio if he would adapt his recipe to today’s home-kitchens and to Altamiras’s produce and flavourings, and he agreed. As I watched him at work he explained the secrets of his sauce: he skims the juices constantly during early cooking and adds a ladleful of pig’s trotters’ stock to the liquid, techniques he picked up from his mum, also a working cook in her day. Today, though, most of his ideas, especially for spicing, come from cooks who arrive in his Lavapiés kitchen from other continents.  This is a consummately satisfying dish served with small whole potatoes boiled in their skins, as you’ll find these calf cheeks at La de Espronceda.

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