Pasta bolognese
Pasta bolognese, the best of all spaghetti sauce recipes, is one of the most authentic Italian recipes that is known all over the world.
This pasta sauce recipe is made with meat and called Bolognese as it originates from Bologna, the famous Italian city.
It originates from the traditional ragu. This noodle recipe 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 doesn't exist... in Bologna, because it's probably the most spread Italian recipe in the world.
As the real recipe of ragu from Bologna requires long time cooking, people began to cook it less and from this fact another recipe was born. This recipe nowadays is more a tomato sauce 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. Give it a try: click here and follow the directions and you'll surely surprise your family or your guests.
If you do not feel like cooking for so long, prepare a tomato sauce with meat, that is what people all around the world actually call pasta bolognese.
