Red Wine Bolognese

Unbalanced

% Daily Values based on a 2,000 calorie diet

Step 1

Start by peeling your carrots and dicing your onion, celery and peeled carrots into 0.5cm cubes

Step 2

Add your diced soffritto ingredients into a preheated pan on a medium-high heat with olive oil and cook until softened, around five minutes

Step 3

While you soften your vegetables, peel and finely dice your garlic

Step 4

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

Step 5

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

Step 6

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

Step 7

Now add the red wine to deglaze the pan and allow the alcohol to cook off, around two minutes

Step 8

With the alcohol cooked off, add the passata and mix to combine

Step 9

Now add the Worcestershire sauce and mix to combine

Step 10

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

Step 11

Finally add salt and pepper to taste