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Bolognese-Style Pasta Sauce

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Ingredients

  • 3 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
  • 2 cups onion, chopped
  • 1 cup carrot, diced
  • 1 cup celery, diced
  • 5 cloves garlic, minced
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons salt, divided
  • 1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
  • 2 (28 ounce) cans petite diced tomatoes
  • 1 cup dry white wine
  • 1 cup water
  • 2 bay leaves
  • 1 teaspoon red pepper flakes
  • 1/4 teaspoon dried oregano
  • 1/2 teaspoon dried basil

Details

Servings 8

Preparation

Step 1

Heat-up a dutch oven on a medium-high flame. Add the olive oil and heat it up for a minute. Don't let it heat to the point of smoking. Add the onions. Stir occasionally for 2 minutes. Add the carrots, celery and and 1/2 teaspoon salt. Sauté the vegetables for about five minutes, stirring occasionally so they are soft and cooked, just beginning to brown. Add the garlic. Cook, stirring, for one more minute.

Add the tomatoes (don't drain them), white wine, water, bay leaf, the rest of the salt, black pepper, red pepper flakes, oregano, and basil. Cook it for about an hour, stirring occasionally and checking to see the level of liquid. Each time that I saw the level of liquid get very low, I'd add about 1/2 cup water, stir, and continue cooking for one hour. I added water 3 times during the cooking period. If it were to have needed more, I would have used it.

I don't like chunks of vegetables in my sauce, but I like the flavor. So I used an immersion blender. If you don't have an immersion blender, transfer the sauce to a regular blender. Be sure to temporarily remove the bay leaves first!

If you are going to add meat, such as the Neopolitan Meatballs that I made on this particular day, add it now and continue to cook. It took me about 1/2 hour to cook my meatball (I had to do it in batches). then I cooked the sauce for another hour after adding the meatballs. So the total cooking time of the sauce was 2 1/2 hours.

By the way, this was definitely the best sauce I've made in my life!




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