Pasta Bolognese is a delicious, meaty meal. Easy to make and will be enough for the whole family.
Ingredients:
Ingredients
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2 white onions
- 2 celery sticks
- 2 carrots
- 5 garlics minced
- Thyme
- Bay Leaves
- 1.5 tbs tomato paste
- 1 cup white wine
- 1 cup of milk
- 1 quart beef stock
- 1 can san Marzano tomatoes whole 28 oz
- Parmesan (use both the rind and cheese)
- 1 stick guancalle or pancetta
- 1/2 pound ground pork
- 1/2 pound 80/20 ground beef
Method:
- Preheat the oven to 300 degrees
- Start with a cold pot. Cut the guancalle into cubes and cook on a low to medium low head. till cooked and crispy. About 4-5 minutes. Remove and set aside. Leave all of the rendered fat in the pot.
- Turn the heat up to medium high and cook the ground pork and beef and add in a pinch of salt (not a lot) and cook through. A about 4-5 minutes. remove and set aside. Leave all remaining juices in the pot.
- Turn the heat to medium/medium high Cut the onions, celery, and carrots into cubes and cook in the rendered fat and juices from the meat for about 5-6 minute until translucent.
- While the onions cook, get the tomatoes out of the can and crush by hand or blender.
- Add in tomato paste and cook for about 4-5 minutes until fully incorporated.
- Add in minced garlic for about 2 minutes or until fragrant.
- Add in wine and cook till reduced by half or until wine is cooked off. About 4-5 minutes.
- Add in crushed tomatoes and cook down for about 5 minutes.
- Add in beef stock cook till it starts to simmer. Turn the flame to medium low and simmer for 5 minutes.
- Add in milk, stir and cook for another 2 minutes.
- Add in your tied bunch of thyme and bay leaves and parmesan rind and simmer for another 3 minutes.
- Place a top on the pot and place into the oven for 3 hours mixing ever hour.
- the lid let it cook inside the oven for 30 minutes
- IF there is still a lot of liquid, let it simmer on the stove uncovered on medium low heat for another 1/2 - 1 hour or until the desired constancy
- Salt and pepper to taste. It’s important that you salt at the end here because the failover evolves a lot and the slat content becomes more concentrated.
- Mix in with pasta and enjoy.