"What are the typical Roman dishes?" This is a quite common question and my usual answers are:
" Definitely the Carbonara, check the authentic taste!" or " Try Amatriciana with bucatini pasta, it's my favorite" something like that. But deep inside I am hiding a dark secret (LOL) because TRUE Roman traditional foods are quite different from these fancy dishes and they can be quite "gross". They are very often made from leftover meat or intestines, the guts. When I tasted them at first obviously I hesitated a bit but you know what, I found them healthy(all protein) and tasty! Nowadays they are difficult to find in trattorias and young housewives don't bother cooking them any more so I'm afraid these traditional Roman dishes are destined to slowly disappear...
I was lucky to know Maria Pia, an expert in Roman traditional cooking. We agreed on making videos on traditional Roman dishes and this "pajata" is the first one we made. While I was editing the video I thought to myself: why not add some personal touch so it's not all about guts? I talked it over with Pia and also with her husband Roberto and they were enthusiastic! So here I am presenting you "The Pajata, a Love story" in collaboration with this beautiful Roman couple. Hope you will enjoy it.( including my vegetarian friends). BTW the "10 second break" is a homage to Robert and his beloved soccer team. They scored while we were filming and Pia sighed " It was about time!" and I loved the scene so much I had to add it...although she was in the kitchen cooking her attention was still on Roberto, I mean how sweet is that?💖

IN THIS VIDEO:
the true Roman traditional dish "the Pajata"
what it is and how they can be cooked
Roman families once upon a time

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Photo credits:
slaughter house www.cittadellaltraeconomia.org
cows with acqueduct from the book Roma Ottocento by D.Mormorio

Do you want to know what the real traditional Roman dish is?
let's ask Alberto Sordi the Roman guy
As Alberto says RIgatoni con la pajata is the ultimate Roman dish
most probably you've never heard of them nor tasted them. Nowadays even in Rome they're not easy to find
and less and less housewives are still cooking them at home. However today I'm presenting you an expert Maria Pia
She learned how to cook the pajata from her mother-in-law and she cooks it very often as it's her husband Roberto's favorite dish
They got married in 1969. Pia was only 19 and Roberto 24. Just look at them!
For their honeymoon they drove down the Amalfi coast with Roberto's Alfa Romeo
This is Teresa Roberto's mother She's become a widow rather young but she raised nine kids... nine beautiful children Roberto says often she would cook the pajata and the kids would finish them within minutes Teresa taught Pia two ways of preparing the pajata: in red and in white

The origin of this dish is a bit sad Till recent meat was something quite expensive and it was definitely not an everyday thing The largest slaughterhouse of Rome used to be in the Testaccio area. The workers, the butchers often were compensated with the unsellable,  that is with the leftovers, the guts. They would take whatever they were given and have them cooked to feed their family Once the dish of the poor now a Roman tradition.
First of all you'd have to have a good butcher whom you can trust to Usually Pia orders them to Massimo her butcher. Today Massimo has got good quality fresh pajata and now he's patiently cleaning them for her by eliminating the fat
then he peels the first layer of the skin. See the milk inside? They're called chyme, chimo in Italian.
2 kg of pajata. Which is, by now you've guessed it, the small intestines of a calf
not just any intestines it has to be the early part right after the stomach and not just any calf, calves who's never eaten nor hay nor grass but only the milk of the mother cow
He's not throwing away the string of skin because Pia needs it later
the packages are ready to go
now at home she starts making little donuts using the string of skin one after another
or she weaves them into braids naturally they're very slippery
Here's a perfect braid... even I gave it a try!


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