Bolognese sauce recipe
Bolognese sauce recipe, amongst spaghetti meat sauce recipes, this recipe for bogognese sauce is the most used one.
This meat sauce recipe is called Bolognese as it originates from Bologna, the famous Italian city.
It originates from the traditional ragu. This Italian meat sauce requires a long cooking time and its main ingredients are meat (veal and pork) and tomato.
As it comes from Bologna, people began to call it bolognese even if people from Bologna don't do it! I asked a friend from Bologna about this sauce and he answered me that bolognese sauce recipe doesn't exist... in Bologna, because it's probably the most spread Italian recipe in the world.
As ragu recipe requires long time cooking, people began to cook it less and so another recipe was born. This recipe nowadays is more a homemade tomato sauce recipe with meat than a real ragu.
When I first tasted ragu, I was surprised of how digestive it was, considering the 7 hours needed to cook it. It gets a rust color and is really so tasty.
A friend who cooked it that time used to let it on the very low gas and go to bed! It's very dangerous, but shows how much time is needed to make such a prelibacy.
Even if it's so particular as recipe, it contains simple ingredients as ground meat (veal and pork), good red wine, onion, carrot, celery and broth..
If you do not feel like cooking for so long, prepare a homemade tomato sauce recipe with meat, that is what people all around the world actually call bolognese sauce recipe.
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