Hello everybody, it is John, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, bolognese ragu with spaghetti. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Italian chef, Gennaro Contaldo shows you how to cook the traditional version of the popular dish, spaghetti Bolognese in this recipe video. Bolognese sauce is a meat-based sauce in Italian cuisine, typical of the city of Bologna. It is customarily used to dress tagliatelle al ragù and to prepare lasagne alla bolognese.
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To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have bolognese ragu with spaghetti using 13 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Bolognese Ragu with Spaghetti:
- Get 3 or 4 medium onions
- Take 3 medium carrots
- Prepare 3 or 4 sticks celery
- Get some streaky smoked bacon or pancetta lardons
- Prepare 1 kg minced beef, or half beef half pork/veal
- Take 1 large glass dry vermouth
- Get 1 couple sprigs fresh rosemary
- Get 1-2 tsp dried sage
- Get 2 big cloves garlic
- Make ready 2 tins plum tomatoes
- Make ready half litre beef stock (or a little more)
- Take Salt and black and white pepper
- Get To finish: grated lemon zest, 1 clove garlic, crushed, a few sprigs of rosemary, very finely chopped, spaghetti and grated Parmesan to serve
Many locals claim that ragù from Bologna should only be served with pasta made with eggs such as tagliatelle or pappardelle, but teaming this with spaghetti is just as delicious. A rich bolognese sauce with plenty of meat feels like the old-world Italian dish but fits in the new-world nutrition sense. One online reviewer claims, "I like any spaghetti sauce that sneaks in tons of veggies." Whilst spaghetti bolognese is considered Italian to those outside of Italy, it's not actually an authentic Italian dish. However, there are similarities with Ragù alla bolognese which uses fresh tagliatelle instead of dried spaghetti and is less heavy on the tomato sauce.
Instructions to make Bolognese Ragu with Spaghetti:
- First make the soffritto, finely chop the onion, carrot and celery and sweat it down gently in a large pan with plenty of olive oil, put the lid on, and stir every so often, for about 15 to 20 minutes. You want everything to be soft, sweet and golden, but not browned.
- While the vegetables are cooking fry the bacon until the fat is rendered, then remove from the frying pan and add the minced beef. Fry this until browned and any meat juices released have bubbled away.
- When the vegetables are cooked, add the garlic, fresh rosemary and stir until the aromas are released, then pour the vermouth in to the pan. This has to be plain dry vermouth, you can use white wine instead, as Antonio suggests, but vermouth keeps longer, is cheaper and does the same job.
- Tip the meat into the pan too and deglaze the frying pan with a little more vermouth. Add that to the pan together with the dried sage, tinned tomatoes and the stock. Cut the tomatoes up roughly. Add lots of black pepper, and some white pepper too if you have some. Add a little more stock if you need to, you should have quite a loose soupy mixture so there's lots of liquid to cook away.
- Put the lid on and simmer on a low heat, stirring every now and then, for about 1 and a half to 2 hours. Taste, and add more salt and pepper if you need to. Keep cooking until most of the liquid has been absorbed.
- When you're ready to eat, cook the spaghetti, drain and toss in melted butter, salt, pepper and a little Parmesan cheese. Then add to the ragu some grated lemon zest, the crushed garlic and finely chopped rosemary. This is a tip from Jamie Oliver, it adds a lovely zingy finish to the beef. Serve the ragu on top of a pile of spaghetti, with some grated Parmesan.
This classic from the region of Emilia-Romagna is known all over the world, but often the recipe is so misunderstood and quite frankly badly made - whether it's too much tomato, undercooked or served with spaghetti, hence the popular term, "spag. A traditional spaghetti Bolognese recipe with homemade Bolognese sauce and tender beef, making this a family favourite. This spaghetti bolognese will be one of the best recipes you've ever tried, as it's been carefully tested in our kitchen. And spaghetti bolognese can be a bit too ordinary. So why not combine the two?
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