The art of italian cooking: making meat-and-tomato sauce for bolognese lasagna

Ingredients

• minced beef,
• pancetta or bacon, cubed,
• carrot, onion and celery, finely chopped
• red wine (but you can use white wine too)
• meat stock
• pureed tomatoes

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Preparation

• Well, you have to chop finely the bacon and saute in a pan for few minutes (you must not add any oil or butter!), stirring frequently, on low heat.
• Then add the vegetables and stir. Keep on stirring frequently for few minutes.
• At this point add the minced beef and stir. Keep on cooking for few minutes.
• Pour in the wine and stir. Bring to the boil again and let the wine evaporate partially.
• Now add the pureed tomatoes and meat stock. Stir, lower the heat and keep on cooking, half-covered, until the cooking juice is reduced.
• At this point add other hot meat stock. If you want you can use milk.
• You can cook Bolognese sauce for at least 2 hours. So if you want to make Bolognese lasagna you’d prepare the sauce 1 day ahead.