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Gillian's ragu alla bolognese
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Bolognese Sauce
Prep Time
30 mins
Cook Time
2 hrs
Total Time
2 hrs 30 mins
 

Simply one of the best Bolognese Sauces you will ever need.  This is a family staple.

Course: Family meal
Cuisine: Italian
Servings: 12
Author: Gillian Thompson
Ingredients
  • 2-3 teaspoon Olive oil
  • 1 Large Onion diced
  • 3 cloves Garlic finely sliced
  • 1 Celery finely chopped
  • 1 Carrot finely chopped
  • 1.2 kg Minced beef
  • 300 g Minced pork
  • 4 tins Plum Tomatoes do not break them up
  • 3-4 tablespoons Tomato puree
  • 50 ml Beef stock or a bit of both
  • 50 ml Red Wine (optional you can increase beef stock if not using the wine)
  • Salt & Pepper for seasoning
  • Bunch of Flat Leaf Parsley freshly chopped
  • 1-2 Sticks of chorizo (optional but we prefer it!)
Instructions
  1. Heat the oil In a large, thick, steel based pan,and fry the onion for 2-3 minutes.
  2. Add the garlic and fry for a minute, stirring so it doesn't burn.
  3. Add the finely chopped celery & carrot and cook for a for a further 10 minutes.
  4. Remove vegetable from the heat and set aside (if your kids don't even like the sight of finely chopped vegetable then at this stage you can choose to puree the veg to a fine paste).
  5. Heat some more oil in the pan and brown the sliced chorizo (if using). Remove from pan and set aside.
  6. Now brown the minced beef & pork in the chorizo infused pan, you may have to do this in batches unless you have an industrial size pan. I use a large stock pot.
  7. Once the meat has all been browned return the previously cooked vegetable back to the pan and add the tinned tomatoes, tomato puree, beef stock and / or wine, followed by the chopped parsley.
  8. Season with a generous amount of salt and pepper, give a good stir, and let simmer for 1-2 hours on a very low heat.
Recipe Notes

Tip:
I portion off into tupperware boxes or zip lock bags with an equal amount in each and it should yields a good 4 portions. That is enough to feed 2 adults and 4 kids for 4 meals.

If using zip locks freeze flat to save on space and enable neat stacking.

Freeze and save for those busy weeks and use for pasta bakes or lasagne.