Simple Bolognese Sauce
Everyone needs a simple, no fuss bolognese recipe up their sleeve. This is it. Minimal ingredients, and less than one hour from prep to plate.
Ingredients
- 1 onion
- 2 carrots
- 2 stalks celery
- 4 cloves garlic
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 500 g beef mince
- 2 tbsp tomato paste
- 2 400g tinned diced Italian tomatoes
- 250 ml beef stock
- 1 tbsp dried Italian mixed herbs
- 2-3 dried bay leaves
- salt and pepper
Instructions
- Finely dice the onion, carrot and celery and mince the garlic cloves
- Heat olive oil in a large saucepan
- Add the onion, carrot, celery and garlic to the oil and cook on a medium heat for 5 minutes (until vegetables have softened) .
- Add beef mince to the saucepan and cook, breaking apart the mince with a wooden spoon for 5 minutes (or until mince has mostly cooked through).
- Add tomato paste to the mince and stir through.
- Add diced tomatoes, beef stock, Italian mixed herbs, bay leaves and a pinch of salt and pepper to the saucepan, and bring to a gentle simmer.
- Place lid on sauce pan and simmer for 45 minutes, occasionally stirring the sauce to avoid sauce sticking to the pan.
- Pick out the bay leaves and taste the sauce to see if any additionally seasoning is required.
- Serve on top of preferred pasta.
Notes
There are no measurements for salt and pepper. The amount of seasoning needed depends on how salty the stock is, and your own personal preference. Just remember, you can always add more salt at the end, but you can’t take it away.