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Bolognese Sauce

Bolognese Sauce

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Rating: 4.0; Vote: 1
Makes about 6 quarts of sauce, enough for about 60 portions of pasta (freeze it) olive oil 1 lb carrots 1 large red onion 1 lb chicken livers 3 lbs ground meat (I like to use beef and lamb) 6 oz can tomato paste 3 28 oz cans crushed tomatoes 1 bottle white wine Liquid chicken bouillon (or a stock cube) 1 tbsp dried oregano 1 tbsp dried parsley 1 tbsp dried basil 1 tbsp dried thyme 1 tbsp garlic powder 1/4 cup balsamic vinegar pepper salt Peel and finely chop the carrots and onion. In a large pot (at least 7 quarts, fry the vegetables in olive oil on high heat until soft, stirring constantly. Dump them out into a bowl or plate. Finely chop the livers until almost pureed. In the big pot, fry the ground meat in olive oil on high heat, stirring and scraping constantly with a wooden spoon to keep meatballs from forming. Cook until most of the water evaporates and the pan starts to crackle. Put in the livers and the tomato paste and stir to combine. When the brown stuff on the bottom of the pot looks like it's about to burn, pour in the wine and scrape to release everything on the bottom. Stir in a big spoonful of the bouillon. Reduce heat to a simmer and cook for two hours, stirring occasionally to make sure the bottom doesn't stick and burn. After two hours, season the sauce with the herbs and vinegar. Simmer an additional hour. When it's the desired thickness, taste and adjust seasoning with salt and pepper. Use, or freeze in ice cube trays, or both. After thawing and reheating, add a few more drops of balsamic vinegar
Date: 2019-08-15

Comments and reviews: 10


Awesome technique here. Meat sauces, bolognese, ragus are my all time favorites things to eat/cook. Just so many different ways to go about it. Place I worked at before hardly used any tomato. Matter of fact it look more brown than anything. Used fresh rosemary and sage as the major herbs and white wine. Also on top of ground pork and beef they grounded mortadella, pancetta and even prosciutto I even think there's was rabbit in there lol Anyways the last way you did it is my favorite. By heating a small side of sauce into a saucepot with the pasta and reduced together with added cream or butter its makes it that much more unctuous. Awesome job
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Been making this for years with red wine/beef stock, never occurred to me to try white with a touch of chicken, especially the livers. Was really surprised by how awesome it turned out. I've never tried the creme variation you show at the end, I skipped the little extra balsamic and used soured creme instead, it's become my favorite way to eat pasta in general. Can't thank you enough for expanding my mind so much in a mere 6 minutes.
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Some of the recipes for sauce with chicken livers call for deeply browning and almost burning them before the meat, but others do what you do and add them after the meat has cooked. Why? I would want the deeply browned flavors, right? Or are gritty livers guaranteed? Planning to add chicken livers to my chili recipe, wondering how to go about it
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Offal is a great trick to make things meatier. People get so turned off by it by it but they don't try it. Give a person a steak pie and a steak and kidney pie but don't tell them they are different, I guarantee they will say the steak and kidney one tastes 'meatier'.
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Very nice: ) I like to use ground lamb also. Love this ragu, can be also used in stuffed peppers with rice. We like moussaka or just stuffed eggplant. Will try this also in stuffed zucchini. Thank you for the possibilities with a great sauce
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Add 2 stalks of celery also with the onion and carrot. And I also add a couple of bay leaves and some whole peppercorns to the mince before adding the wine. Rest all was perfect. Never tried the one with the cream though.
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By dumping all that meat into that pot at once, you just end up boiling it, in it's own juices, not the right correct way to do it. browning it is better, bit by bit till all of it is done, any good chef will know this.
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Well, adam i know that you have mentioned the part of browning the meat so why ( in this recipie) do you keep kinda chopping the meat with a wooden spoon which lowers the temperature in the pot?
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Next time I'll try white wine, I always used dry reds. Curious about the difference. Oh, and I add some celery and dried tomatoes at the beginning and some laurel leaves when I add the whine.
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When I got too much leftover Bolognese I covert it to chili. throw in some chili powder, paprika, cumin, some black beans. boom chili (yes I know they don't put beans in Texas chili)
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