Easy Bolognese Sauce

Name: Easy Bolognese Sauce
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 90 min
Total time: 105 min
Yield: 10
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: 4 slices Bacon (4 slices bacon, chopped); 1 piece Yellow Onion (1 onion, finely diced); 2 pieces Carrot (2 large carrots, shredded or finely chopped); 2 pieces Celery (2 celery stalk, finely diced); 4 cloves Garlic (4 cloves garlic, minced); 2 lb Ground Beef (2 pounds ground beef); 1 cup Dry Red Wine (1 cup red wine); 2 can Tomato (2 x 28 ounce cans (796 mL) crushed tomatoes); 1 can Tomato Paste (1 x 5.5 ounce can (156 mL) tomato paste); 1 cup Whole Milk (1 cup milk (I used 2%)); 0 pieces Red Pepper Flakes (pinch red pepper flakes); 1 piece Bay Leaves (1 bay leaf); ½ tsp Dried Thyme (1/2 teaspoon dried thyme); ½ tsp Dried Oregano (1/2 teaspoon dried oregano); 1 tsp Table Salt (1 teaspoon salt); ¼ tsp Black Pepper (1/4 teaspoon pepper)

A simple Italian meat sauce simmered slowly with bacon, ground beef, tomatoes, and aromatics for a classic Bolognese.

105 minItalian

Servings10

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1In a large saucepan, cook the bacon over medium heat, stirring constantly, until crisp. Remove from the pan and set aside, leaving the bacon drippings in the pan.
2Add the onion, carrots, celery, and garlic to the pan and cook, stirring constantly, until softened, about 3 minutes. Remove the vegetables from the pan and set aside.
3Add the ground beef to the pan and cook, stirring often to break it up, until no pink remains. Drain the grease.
4Add the vegetables and bacon back to the pan with the beef.
5Pour in the red wine, and continue to cook over medium heat, stirring constantly to scrape up any browned bits on the pan, until the wine is almost completely evaporated.
6Add the crushed tomatoes, tomato paste, milk, red pepper flakes, bay leaf, thyme, oregano, salt, and pepper, to the pot and stir to combine.
7Reduce the heat to a simmer, cover, and cook on low heat for at least one hour, stirring occasionally.