Bolognaise sauce for pasta

1 Servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
2 tablespoons Olive oil
500 grams Minced beef
1 large Onion; chopped
2 Cloves garlic; crushed
1 tablespoon Flour
1 Jar; (375 g) tomato paste
1 cup Red wine
1 teaspoon Beef stock powder; (or 1 cube)
Chopped parsley; (as much as I can find in the garden)
Freshly ground pepper
1 Stick celery; chopped
1 Carrot; grated
4 Mushrooms; chopped, (up to 5)
Garlic salt to taste

Directions

OPTIONAL EXTRAS

Lightly brown the onion, garlic and celery in the oil, over medium heat, add the meat and continue cooking and stirring until all the meat in browned and crumbly looking. Add the stock powder, flour, garlic salt and as much ground pepper as you like, stir through. Add the red wine, tomato paste and as much water as needed to achieve the desired consistency. Add the carrot if you want it. At this stage I turn the heat way down low, put the lid on the pot and go away and do something else for an hour or so, stirring the sauce occasionally on my way past. When I'm ready I add the mushrooms and parsley, and cook for at least another 10 minutes. The sauce is now ready to eat or freeze as required.

Notes: * I often make large batches (up to 2 kg meat) of this sauce and freeze it in 1-meal size containers.

* When I want to "hide" lots of vegetables in this, I blend the cooked sauce in the blender on low speed.

* This sauce is great as a pour over sauce for all types of pasta, and I also use it in lasagne.

Posted to TNT Recipes Digest, Vol 01, Nr 927 by "Eric Wollff" <lupus@...> on Jan 11, 1998

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