How To Make Spaghetti Bolognese

Spaghetti Bolognese Recipe. A traditional and popular Italian dish serving spaghetti with a baked tomato and beef sauce. The original and still the best! Try our Spaghetti Bolognese recipe.

Serves:

6

Preparation Time:

20 minutes

Cooking Time:

1 hour 30 minutes

Oven Temperature:

180

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180

You will need…

• 250 g minced lean beef
• 250 g minced pork
• 60 ml olive oil
• 6 slices of smoked bacon, chopped , or pancetta
• 1 onion, finely chopped
• 2 carrots, finely diced
• 3 garlic cloves, minced
• 2 celery stalks, finely diced
• 400 g tin of crushed tomatoes
• 200 g tomato purée
• 120 ml red wine
• 1 tsp oregano
• 2 tbsp parsley, chopped
• salt and pepper
• 500 g spaghetti
• 1 tbsp olive oil
• 25 g parmesan, grated
• 2 large saucepans
• 1 wooden spoon
• 1 colander

Step 2:

Preheat the oven

Preheat the oven to 180ºC (350ºF) or gas mark 4.

Step 3:

Make the sauce

Place a medium pan under a high heat and warm through, then add the olive oil and the bacon bits. Stir in well with your wooden spoon.

When the bacon has rendered, which means when the fat has melted, start to add the beef, little by little stirring each time to break the meat up and help it brown. Allow it to cook for a few minutes.

Step 4:

Bake the sauce

Place the pan in the centre of the preheated oven and depending on the size of your pot cook for roughly one hour to an hour and a half.

Step 5:

Cook the pasta

Twenty minutes before the sauce has finish cooking, season a pan of boiling water with salt and add the spaghetti. Very gently push it down into the water, add 1 tbsp of olive oil and let it come back to the boil.

Every pasta has a different cooking time and it is always good to check the instructions on the back of the package, but roughly cook it for 7 - 10 minutes.

Step 6:

Remove the pan from the oven

Remove the pan from the oven after roughly one hour to one and a half hours, when the majority of liquid has been absorbed.

Step 7:

Drain the pasta

Drain the pasta into a colander in the sink. Then place a pot underneath the colander to catch the extra liquid.

Step 8:

Serve

Using your tongs, heap a generous helping of spaghetti into a serving bowl. Place an equally generous helping of the sauce on top and then finally garnish with some chopped parsley and a sprinkle of parmesan cheese.

Your dish is now ready to serve! Serve hot with a nice glass of red wine!