Red Wine Bolognese
Ingredients
Sofrito
- 0.5 Onion
- 0.5 stick Celery
- 1 Carrot
Post Post Sofrito
- 250g Beef Mince 20% Fat
- 94ml Red Wine
- 3 splashes Worcestershire Sauce
Herbs
- 0.5 tsp Oregano
- 0.5 tsp Basil
- 0.5 tsp Thyme
- 0.25 tsp Parsley
Additional
- Salt
- Pepper
- Olive Oil
Instructions
Sofrito
- Start by peeling your carrots and dicing your onion, celery and peeled carrots into 0.5cm cubes
- Add your diced sofrito ingredients into a preheated pan on a medium-high heat with olive oil and cook until softened, around five minutes
- While you soften your vegetables, peel and finely dice your garlic
- When your vegetables have softened, move them to one side and add the diced garlic and tomato paste and cook until fragrant, around 30 seconds, then mix to combine
Bolognese
- Now add your mince to the pan, season with salt and pepper and brown off I like to mix the mince together to give it the texture of sausage meat which when browned creates chunks of mince that create a texture variety
- Once your mince has browned mix to combine and add the herbs to the pan and mix to combine and cook for two minutes to bloom the herbs
- Now add the red wine to deglaze the pan and allow the alcohol to cook off, around two minutes
- With the alcohol cooked off, add the passata and mix to combine
- Now add the Worcestershire sauce and mix to combine
- Cover the pot and cook on medium low on a simmer for 2 - 4 hours, stirring every 15-30 minutes until the sauce has thickened
- Finally add salt and pepper to taste