Bolognese sauce
Bolognese sauce
Main Preparation 30 minutes
Service 4 people
Difficulty 6/10
Ingredients
- 450g beef mince 20% fat
- 200g sausage meat
- 2 onions
- 1 carrot
- 2 stems celery
- 300g tinned chopped tomatoes
- 100g tomato paste (double or triple concentrated)
- 50g butter
- 10cl fresh whole milk
- 3 bay leaves
- 1 glass red wine
- Salt and pepper
Preparation
- Heat a large heavy pan and add the beef mince and sausage meat (without any additional oil or fat). Sear, breaking up the meat with a spoon. Cook until the meat is well browned (5-10 mins).
- Once the meat is cooked, set it aside.
- Chop the onions, dice the carrot and the celery.
- Melt the butter in the heavy pan until it browns (it will enhance the taste).
- Add the celery, carrot and onion. Fry until coloured.
- Add the meat, then the tomato paste.
- Add the milk, the wine and the bay leaves and mix well. Pour in the chopped tomatoes and season with salt.
- Simmer very gently for 2 hours without covering, stirring from time to time.
- The sauce will be even better the following day, served with your favourite pasta.
The Chef's twist
For a vegetarian alternative, use red lentils instead of the beef and sausage meat mixture.