Bolognese Meat Sauce

Name: How to cook Bolognese Meat Sauce - cookcic.com
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 4-6 people
Cuisine: Us

Introduce

Chef :

AndyB77

Bolognese Meat Sauce

This is a regular favourite Bolognese sauce from what is now quite an old Italian recipe book. This is great with spaghetti or fusilli. It freezes well so great for batch cooking and quick mid week meals from the freezer.

Ingredient

Food ration :

4-6 people

Cooking time :

30mins to 1hour

25 g

/ 2tbsp butter

60 ml

/ 4tbsp olive oil

medium onion finely chopped

25 g

/ 2tbsp pancetta finely chopped

carrot finely diced

1 stick

celery finely diced

1 clove

garlic

500 g

lean minced beef

150 ml

red wine

125 ml

milk

x 400g can plum tomatoes

bay leaf

1/4 tsp

fresh thyme leaves

Cooking instructions

* Step 1

Heat the butter and oil in a heavy saucepan. Add the onion and cook over moderate heat for 3-4 minutes. Add the pancetta and cook until the onion is translucent. Stir in the carrot, celery and garlic. Cook 3-4 minutes more.

* Step 2

Add the beef and crumble it into the vegetables with a fork (the fork is key to a good Bolognese). Stir until the meat loses its red colour. Season with salt and pepper.

* Step 3

Pour in the wine, raise the heat slightly and cook until the liquid evaporates, 3-4 minutes. Add the milk and cook until it evaporates.

* Step 4

Stir in the tomatoes with their juice and add the herbs (the bay leave adds to the flavour of the dish). Bring the sauce to the boil. Reduce the heat to low and simmer, uncovered for (depending on how hungry you are or time you have) 30 mins or up to 1 hour. Correct seasoning to taste before serving.