Bolognese Sauce
From bondc 15 years ago
Ingredients
- 2 T. each: butter and olive oil shopping list
- 1/2 c. diced onion shopping list
- 2 stalks celery shopping list
- 2 carrots, peeled shopping list
- 1/2 lb. ground pork shopping list
- 1/4 lb. ground chuck shopping list
- 1 c. whole milk shopping list
- 1/8 tsp. grated nutmeg shopping list
- 1 c. dry white wine shopping list
- 2 15-oz. cans chopped/diced tomatoes, with their juice shopping list
- salt shopping list
- pepper shopping list
- freshly grated parmigiano-reggiano cheese -- please no pecorino! shopping list
How to make it
- First, the celery and carrot. These should be very finely diced (I put them through the food processor, first the slicer blade, then the chopper), especially if you hurry the sauce, or you end up with big chunks of undone carrot. Not pretty. The point isn't pieces of carrot or celery. They are there to lend their flavors, and blend with the sauce. Very finely diced.
- Put oil and butter in a pot with chopped onion. Turn heat on to medium. Cook and stir onion until translucent. Add chopped celery and carrot. Cook for 2 minutes more, stirring the vegetables to coat them well.
- Add ground beef and pork, a large pinch of salt, and several grindings of pepper. Break up the meat and stir well, cooking until the beef has lost its raw, red color.
- Add the milk, adjust heat, and let simmer gently, stirring frequently, until it has bubbled away completely. This can take a while. Add the 1/8 tsp of grated nutmeg and stir.
- Add the wine and let simmer until it has evaporated. Again, this can take a while. Add tomatoes and stir thoroughly to coat all ingredients. When the tomatoes begin to bubble, turn heat down so that the sauce cooks at a very low simmer. Cook uncovered for 3 hours or more, stirring from time to time. If the sauce begins to dry out and the fat separates from the meat, add a little water to keep it from sticking to the pot. Taste and correct for salt.
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