Monday, September 15, 2008

Italian Bolognaise Sauce/Bolognese sauce

One of the famous Italian sauce is Bolognaise sauce, prepared with minced meat, tomatoes with a hand ful of spices n herbs, this sauce tastes awesome with pastas...the origin of this sauce is from Bologna in Italy..Bolognese sauce is sometimes taken to be a tomato sauce but authentic recipes have only a small amount of tomato. Learned this sauce from one of my Italian friend, its became one of my fav sauce with pasta..

1no Onions(chopped)
1/2kg Minced Meat
1no Whole tomatoes (canned)
1cup Tomato puree
3nos Bay leaves
3sprigs Thyme
2tsp Coriander seeds
5nos Cloves
1no Cinnamom stick (big)
1tsp Basil leaves
3nos Rosemary sprigs
2nos Dry Red chillies
1tsp Pepper powder
Salt
3tsp Olive oil
Take a small muslin cloth, put the coriander seeds, cloves, cinnamon stick,rosemary sprigs, dry red chillies into the muslin cloth n tie them well, they will looks like a small bag, keep aside..


Heat Olive oil in a large pan, add the bay leaves n thyme sprigs n fry them..now add the chopped onions cook until they turns tender..add the minced meat (here i used goat minced meat, can also use beef minced meet)..cook them until they change the colour, now add the canned whole tomatoes, tomato puree n also pepper powder, salt n basil leaves.

Add the muslin bag with spices now..add enough water(adjust ur sauce as per ur need) to the meat n tomatoes sauce..cook them atleast for one hour in simmer..remove the muslin spice bag while serving..

Serve hot with any sort of Pastas..
Tasty n Colourful Italian Bolognaise Sauce is ready..

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2 comments:

creampuff said... Reply To This Comment

Nice job on the sauce.

Priya Suresh said... Reply To This Comment

Thanks creampuff for dropping ur comment..