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Italian Bolognese Sauce
[Salsa alla bolognese]

Italian Bolognese Sauce is a traditional slow-cooked sauce, rich in tomato flavor, that necessitates patience and quality ingredients.

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Italian Bolognese Sauce [Salsa alla bolognese]

By Denis Elas The Chef
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Italian Bolognese Sauce [Salsa alla bolognese] Denis Elas
Italian Bolognese Sauce is a traditional slow-cooked sauce, rich in tomato flavor, that necessitates patience and quality ingredients.
Recipe dedicated to:My love for Italian cuisine
5 from 2 votes
Course: Main Course
Cuisine: Italian
Prep: 15 minutes
Cook: 5 hours
Total: 5 hours 15 minutes

Equipments

Wooden Cutting Board
Wooden cutting board
Le Creuset Round Dutch Oven
Cooking pot
Wooden spoon
Strainer
Grater
Cooking Scale
Digital scale
Measuring Tools
Measuring tools
High-quality cooking knives

Ingredients

The Vegetables

  • 1 red onion chopped
  • 3 celery chopped
  • 3 carrots chopped
  • 2 Tbsp. extra virgin olive oil
  • ½ cup Italian red wine for the vegetables

The Meats

  • 500 g pork mince
  • 300 g beef mince
  • 200 g veal mince
  • 1 tsp. salt
  • ½ tsp. freshly ground black pepper
  • ½ cup Italian red wine for the meats

The Sauce

The Pasta

  • Pappardelle or Tagliatelle or Fettuccine
  • 1 cup pasta water
  • Parmigiano Reggiano cheese freshly grated
12 servings

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Instructions
 

The Preparation

  1. Gather the ingredients. Start by chopping 1 red onion.
  2. Proceed to wash and chop into small cubes : 3 celery and 3 carrots.

The Cooking

  1. In a large cooking pot on medium heat, add 2 Tbsp. extra virgin olive oil and once warm, add the chopped 1 red onion. Cook for 5 minutes or until golden.
  2. Add the chopped 3 celery and 3 carrots, stirring occasionally for about 5 minutes.
  3. Pour ½ cup Italian red wine, allowing it to simmer until the liquid evaporates.
  4. Once the wine has evaporated, add the minced meats (500 g pork mince, 300 g beef mince and 200 g veal mince).
  5. Slowly break them down using a wooden spoon. Season with 1 tsp. salt and ½ tsp. freshly ground black pepper.
    Italian Bolognese Sauce [Salsa alla bolognese] Denis Elas
  6. Cook until the meat has no pink hue left.
    Italian Bolognese Sauce [Salsa alla bolognese] Denis Elas
  7. Once the moisture from the meats evaporates, add the remaining ½ cup Italian red wine. Allowing it to simmer until the liquid evaporates. Continue to slowly break down the meat.
  8. Incorporate the 800 g peeled tomatoes, 800 g strained tomatoes and 150 g tomato paste crushing the tomatoes as you mix with your wooden spoon.
    Italian Bolognese Sauce [Salsa alla bolognese] Denis Elas
  9. Add 1 L boiling water. Season with 2 tsp. salt and 1 tsp. freshly ground black pepper.
    Italian Bolognese Sauce [Salsa alla bolognese] Denis Elas
  10. Maintain low heat to prevent excessive bubbling. The bubble should be slowly coming out. Let it simmer for 5 hours starting from when you started the cooking pot.
    Italian Bolognese Sauce [Salsa alla bolognese] Denis Elas

The Pasta

  1. When ready to serve and the 5h has elapsed, prepare pasta according to package instructions. You should use flat pasta like Pappardelle, Tagliatelle or Fettuccine. Cook only the amount you will use.
    Italian Bolognese Sauce [Salsa alla bolognese] Denis Elas
  2. While the pasta is cooking, stir in the sauce 250 ml whole milk and mix well. At this point, you should taste your sauce and adjust the salt and pepper to taste.
    Italian Bolognese Sauce [Salsa alla bolognese] Denis Elas
  3. One the pasta is done, reserve 1 cup pasta water. Drain and place back in the pot you boiled it in.
    Italian Bolognese Sauce [Salsa alla bolognese] Denis Elas
  4. Combine cooked pasta with part of the Italian Bolognese Sauce the pasta cooking pot, adding the 1 cup pasta water as needed for consistency.
    Italian Bolognese Sauce [Salsa alla bolognese] Denis Elas

The Serving

  1. Serve the Italian Bolognese Sauce with some freshly grated Parmigiano Reggiano cheese. Store the rest of the unused sauce for the future.
    Italian Bolognese Sauce [Salsa alla bolognese] Denis Elas

Nutrition

Serving: 1 serving (no pasta) | Calories: 339 kcal (17%) | Carbohydrates: 11 g (4%) | Protein: 23 g (46%) | Fat: 20 g (31%) | Sodium: 689 mg (30%) | Fiber: 1 g (4%) | Sugar: 7 g (8%)

Elasdenis.com is written and produced for informational purposes only. While I do my best to provide nutritional information as a general guideline to our readers, I am not a certified nutritionists, and the values provided should be considered estimates. Factors such as brands purchased, natural variations in fresh ingredients, etc. will change the nutritional information in any recipe. Various online calculators also provide different results, depending on their sources. To obtain accurate nutritional information for a recipe, use your preferred nutrition calculator to determine nutritional information with the actual ingredients and quantities used.

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