Bolognese Sauce

Bolognese Sauce, it’s a very very special sauce. Perfect for your Holiday first course.

You’ll Need:

• 3-tbs butter
• 4-tbs extra virgin olive oil
• 1/4-lb of pancetta diced really fine
  
• 1-cup minced onion
  
• 1-cup of whole milk
  
• 1-cup minced carrot
  
• 1-cup minced celery
  
• 6-garlic cloves sliced
  
• 1-lb ground beef
  
• 1-lb ground pork
  
• 1-cup dry red wine
  
• 1-28 can whole Italian plum crushed by hand
  
• 1-cup chicken stock
  
• 2-bay leaves
  
• Salt n Pepper to taste

Directions:

1. Heat the olive oil in a large pot on a medium heat then add the pancetta and cook until the fat has rendered.
2. Add the butter, onion, garlic, carrot, celery and sauté for 5-minutes.
3. Raise the heat and add the beef, pork, a tsp of salt, 1/4 tsp pepper, brown the meat while breaking it up with a heavy spoon.
4. Add the wine and scrape all the browned bits off the bottom and side of the pot, this is a very important step as there is a lot of flavor there, allow the wine to reduce in half .
5. Next step is to add the milk and simmer, stir for a few minutes until it reduces by about half.
6. Add the bay leaves, tomatoes with all the juice, chicken stock, tsp salt, 1/4 tsp pepper.
7. Raise the heat and bring this to a boil, stir everything together.
8. Reduce the heat to a simmer on a very low heat for one hour with the lid 3/4 of the way on, stir along the way.
9. Remove the lid and continue to cook for 30 min on a low heat, stirring along the way.
10. Remove the bay leaves.

Enjoy!
Daniel Mancini

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