Recipe: Appetizing Bolognese Sauce

Bolognese Sauce.

You can cook Bolognese Sauce using 13 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Bolognese Sauce

1. You need 1 of onion, finely chopped.
2. You need 1 of small carrot, finely chopped.
3. It's 1 of celery stick, finely chopped.
4. Prepare 2 of garlic cloves, finely chopped.
5. Prepare 400 g of or 14 oz minced (ground) beef.
6. It's 120 ml (1/2 cup) of red wine.
7. You need 15 ml (1 tbsp) of chopped fresh parsley).
8. It's 45 ml (3 tbsp) of olive oil.
9. It's 200 ml (1 cup) of canned tomatoes or strained bottled tomatoes (passata).
10. You need 15 ml (1 tbsp) of tomato puree/paste.
11. You need 5 ml (1 tsp) of dried oregano.
12. You need 1 1/2 cups of beef stock.
13. It's to taste of salt and ground pepper.

Bolognese Sauce step by step

1. In a large pan, heat the oil. Add the onion, carrot, celery and garlic. Cook over low heat for 6 minutes, stirring frequently..
2. Add the minced beef to the pan and cook for 7 minutes. Break up any lumps in the meat with a wooden spoon, steel spatula or manual potato masher..
3. Stir in the red wine and mix well. Cook for 3 minutes then add the parsley, oregano, 4 tbsp of beef stock and tomatoes (canned/bottled and puree)..
4. Season with salt and pepper to taste then mix well and bring the mixture to boil..
5. Cook covered for 30 minutes. Stir frequently and add more stock as needed..
6. Add more salt and pepper as needed then use the mixture in pasta dishes..