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Bolognese
Sauce Recipe
Easy Quick and Economical
A good Bolognese sauce
Recipe is essential for every cook and
this one has served us well over the years. It brings great Italian
Mediterranean flavours to any pasta dish. The secret is in the
ingredients, always use the best quality ingredients you can find, it
pays dividends in the long run.
The other secret is, of course, the cooking. Don't be afraid to let it
cook for a long time. It is one of the few things that we will cook in
a pressure cooker. We can't emphasise this enough -
Bolognese Beef Sauce can be cooked and cooked and then cooked some more
and it will just get Better and Better.
Experiment with different additions as you go
along, find your own special version. You can add Finely chopped
Carrots, Celery, Bacon or Ham - Some people even like to add Chicken
Livers for added Flavour.
One particular favorite of ours is to add half a
pint of Creamy Bechamel and half a pound of Sauteed Mushrooms to
the
basic sauce. Fantastic with any Pasta you Like.
So go ahead and make it your OWN
Ingredients
- 1lb. ground
beef
- 1 Large onion
finely chopped
- 2 cloves of
garlic mashed
- 116oz. Can of
chopped tomatoes
- 2ozs. strong
tomato paste
- 2 beef
bouillon cubes
- 1/4 teaspoon
dried chilli powder
- 1 lemon -
juice and grated rind
- A glass of red
wine
- 1 Teaspoon
each of dried thyme
and marjoram
- 1 Tablespoon
of olive oil for
frying
Method
- First fry the onion in the Olive Oil, for about
five minutes until it softens.
- Now add the meat - mixing and stirring well to
make sure that all the lumps are removed - about a further ten minutes.
- When the meat and onion mix is nicely browned
turn down the heat and add the Garlic - stir for five minutes more.
- Now add all the other ingredients except the
Lemon Juice and
- let the sauce cook out at a simmer for at least
45 minutes - up to an
Hour and
a half if you have time.
- Remove from the heat and stir in the lemon
juice.
A Great Meat Sauce
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