Bolognese sauce with minced meat

Step-by-step preparation

Cooking time: 1 hr 30 mins

1. STEP 1

   

   How to make Bolognese sauce with minced meat at home? Prepare your food. It is better to use mixed minced meat (beef and pork), it will make the sauce moderately fatty, but not too dry. The wine can be taken either white or red. Pay attention to its quality, the alcohol will disappear, but the taste will remain. I always use pureed tomato pulp for Bolognese. You can replace it with diluted tomato paste, tomato sauce or fresh tomatoes.

2. STEP 2

   

   Cut the peeled onion into small cubes.

3. STEP 3

   

   Wash the celery stalk and cut it into cubes, just like the onion. It is better if the vegetables are cut the same way, so they will cook at the same time and will look neater in the sauce.

4. STEP 4

   

   Rinse the carrots well under running water, then peel. Cut the carrots into cubes.

5. STEP 5

   

   Heat a frying pan over medium heat. For preparing the sauce, dishes with a thick bottom are better suited; they retain heat better when stewing, and the food turns out stewed. You can read about how to choose the right frying pan in the article; the link to it is at the end of the recipe. Pour olive oil on it. Lay out the vegetables. Fry the vegetables for a few minutes until softened.

6. STEP 6

   

   Add minced meat to the vegetables. Mash it thoroughly with a spoon, breaking up large pieces.

7. STEP 7

   

   Fry the minced meat for about 10 minutes, stirring constantly until it completely changes color. When this happens, pour in the wine. Stir. Let the wine evaporate, it will happen quickly, a few minutes will do. The alcohol will evaporate, but the taste of the wine will remain and give the sauce a piquant note.

8. STEP 8

   

   Add mashed tomatoes, stir. Add dry herbs, salt and pepper. Pour in water. Mix the sauce well. Cover the pan with a lid and reduce heat to low. Simmer the sauce for an hour, stirring occasionally and checking the thickness. Add more water if necessary.

9. STEP 9

   

   Serve the finished sauce immediately with pasta or use it as a filling for lasagna. Bon appetit!

Comments on the recipe

elena D

20.12.2023

4.7

See the recipe for pasta with beef a la Bolognese.

tatyanochka2022

20.12.2023

4.9

To make bolognese sauce with minced meat, I used pork belly, onions, carrots and tomato paste (instead of tomato sauce). I chopped the pork finely; I wanted small, appetizing pieces of meat instead of minced meat. I fried the onions and carrots until soft in vegetable oil (replaced olive oil with it, did not add a stalk of celery). Then I put the meat in a frying pan and fried it along with the vegetables for 10 minutes. After that, I added salt, tomato paste and water to the meat, covered the frying pan with a lid and left to simmer for 1 hour (I did not add white wine or spices). The meat became soft and tender, the sauce was rich, aromatic, appetizing! We ate it with spaghetti, very tasty! Thanks for the recipe!

Anna K

20.12.2023

4.9

Bolognese sauce with minced meat is a delicious base for many lasagna or pasta dishes. The main thing is to cook it correctly. And to prepare this sauce you need simple and affordable ingredients: vegetables, minced meat and tomato paste. Even a novice housewife can cope with preparing this sauce if she follows the advice of the author of this wonderful recipe. Thank you very much!