Ravioli: Meat Sauce

This dish is one of elegance and economy. Tocco (or toccu) is the classic Ligurian meat sauce: made much like ragù Napoletano in that it is the tomato sauce in which meat was cooked. Here, the flavour is deepened with mushrooms, and the sauce thickened with a roux — demonstrative of the French influence in the far western corner of Italy. The joy of the dish is that the meat from making the tocco is used to fill the ravioli. Not