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Fettuccine with bolognese sauce
Fettuccine with bolognese sauce

Bolognese sauce (ragù alla bolognese in Italian, also known by its French name sauce bolognaise) is a meat based sauce for pasta originating in Bologna, Italy. Bolognese sauce is sometimes taken to be a tomato sauce but authentic recipes have only a very small amount of tomato, perhaps a couple of tablespoons of tomato paste. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 763 × 600 pixel Image in higher resolution (1569 × 1233 pixel, file size: 926 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) en: This picture was reworked by the Wikigraphists of the Bilderwerkstatt. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 763 × 600 pixel Image in higher resolution (1569 × 1233 pixel, file size: 926 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) en: This picture was reworked by the Wikigraphists of the Bilderwerkstatt. ... == Fettuccine (literally little ribbons in Italian) is a type of pasta. ... Not to be confused with Raghu, a mythological Hindu king and Indian name. ... Mortal Kombat character, see Meat (Mortal Kombat). ... Percentages are relative to US recommendations for adults. ... Bologna (IPA , from Latin Bononia, BulÃ¥ggna in Emiliano-Romagnolo) is the capital city of Emilia-Romagna in northern Italy, in the Pianura Padana, between the Po River and the Apennines, exactly between the Reno River and the Sàvena River. ... Tomato paste is a thick paste made from ripened tomatos with skin and seeds removed. ...


The people of Bologna traditionally serve their famous ragù with freshly made tagliatelle (tagliatelle alla bolognese). Less traditionally, the sauce is served with rigatoni or used as the stuffing for lasagne or cannelloni. Tagliatelle /taatl-le/ is the classic pasta of the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy. ... Rigatoni is a form of pasta that is tube-shaped. ... Lasagne Lasagne, also lasagna, is both a form of pasta in sheets (often rippled in North America, though seldom so in Italy) and also a dish, sometimes named Lasagne al forno (meaning Lasagne in the oven) made with alternate layers of pasta, cheese, and ragu (a meat sauce). ... For many native Italians, Cannelloni may be more similar to a crepe filled with a savory filling and covered with tomato sauce. ...

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Preparation

Recipes differ greatly from a very classic and time-consuming ragù alla bolognese to a much simpler and quicker sugo di carne (‘meat sauce’). A simple but authentic form of ragù alla bolognese may be made as follows:

  • Prepare a soffritto of finely chopped carrots, onions and celery and other aromatics in olive oil.
  • Brown finely minced meat (beef flank and pancetta) in the soffritto. (As a shortcut, ground meat can be substituted for minced meat, at the cost of increased textural flaws. Such meat is rarely lean and the sauce is liable to be excessively greasy.)
  • A splash of cream or milk should be added now. This protects the meat from the acidity of the next 2 ingredients.
  • Add a half-glass of white wine and let it reduce.
  • Add small amounts of tomato sauce and stock.
  • Simmer very gently until the meat softens and begins to break down into the liquid medium. This may take upward of four hours; classically one to two hours is enough.


The recipe issued in 1982 by the Bolognese delegation of Accademia Italiana della Cucina confines the ingredients to beef, pancetta, onions, carrots, celery, tomato paste, meat broth, white wine, and milk. However, different recipes, far from the Bolognese tradition, make use of chopped pork, chicken or goose liver along with the beef and/or veal for variety, or use butter with olive oil. Prosciutto, mortadella, or porcini mushrooms may be added to the soffritto to enrich the sauce. Soffritto (literally sub-fried in Italian) forms the base of most common Italian dishes. ... A bottle of olive oil. ... For other uses, see Beef (disambiguation). ... Packaged pancetta. ... Cream is a dairy product that is composed of the higher-fat layer skimmed from the top of raw milk before homogenization. ... For other uses, see Milk (disambiguation). ... This article is about the beverage. ... In cooking, reduction is the process of thickening a liquid mixture such as a soup or sauce by evaporation. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Stock is a flavoured liquid. ... 1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Two halves of pork being delivered Pork is the culinary name for meat from pigs. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Look up goose in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... The liver is an organ present in vertebrates and some other animals. ... Butter is commonly sold in sticks (pictured) or blocks, and frequently served with the use of a butter knife. ... Prosciutto Prosciutto (IPA: ) is the Italian word for ham, used in English to refer to dry-cured ham (prosciutto crudo). ... Mortadella Mortadella is a finely hashed/ground heat-cured pork sausage with lard pieces, delicately flavored with garlic and anise seed and optionally with broken pieces of pistachio. ... Binomial name Boletus edulis Bull. ... Soffritto (literally sub-fried in Italian) forms the base of most common Italian dishes. ...


Modern interpretations

Heston Blumenthal's BBC series "In Search of Perfection," features Blumenthal reinventing staple foods of the British diet, had once provided a 45 minute analysis of bolognaise, visiting Bologna and neighbouring towns in search of the most typifying example of the dish. His culminating recipe was based on two principles: the richness of the sauce, whilst retaining the British interpretation of the dish "like mum would make it". This included some unconventional ingredients, including pork, garlic, Worcester sauce, Nam Pla (thai fermented fish sauce), and tarragon. He stewed the sauce for 4 hours, and used butter instead of cream to "finish" the sauce. It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with The Fat Duck. ... 1900 advertisement Worcestershire sauce (pronounced /Wus-t9r-sh9r/ sauce) also known as Worcester sauce (pronounced /Wus-t9r/ sauce) is a widely used fermented liquid condiment. ... Binomial name Artemisia dracunculus L. Tarragon or dragon (Artemisia dracunculus) is a perennial herb, a member of the daisy family (Asteraceae) and a close relative of wormwood. ...


Spaghetti Bolognese

Spaghetti Bolognese
Spaghetti Bolognese

Spaghetti alla Bolognese,or Spaghetti Bolognese, popular outside of Italy consists of a meat sauce served on a bed of spaghetti with a good sprinkling of grated cheese: Parmigiano Reggiano, ‘Italian hard cheese’ or Cheddar. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1685x1308, 266 KB) Shot of Spaghetti Bolognese File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1685x1308, 266 KB) Shot of Spaghetti Bolognese File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Mortal Kombat character, see Meat (Mortal Kombat). ... For the computer protocol, see SAUCE In cooking, a sauce is a liquid or sometimes solid food served on or used in preparing other foods. ... Country of origin Italy Region, town Provinces of Parma, Reggio Emilia, Modena, Bologna (west of the Reno), Mantua (south of the Po) Source of milk Cows Pasteurized No Texture Hard Aging time Minimum: 12 months Vecchio: 18–24 months Stravecchio: 24–36 months Certification Italy: DOC 1955 EU: PDO 1992... Country of origin England Region, town Somerset, Cheddar Source of milk Cows Pasteurized Frequently Texture hard/semi-hard Aging time 3-30 months depending on variety Certification No Cheddar cheese is a pale yellow, sharp-tasting cheese originally made in the English village of Cheddar, in Somerset. ...


In recent decades, the dish has become very popular in Sweden and Denmark as spaghetti och köttfärssås, in Swedish, and spaghetti og kødsovs in Danish, especially among children. It is also popular in the United Kingdom, where it is sometimes known as Spag bol. In the United States as well, the term 'bolognese' is often applied to a tomato-and-ground-beef sauce that bears little resemblance to ragù served in Bologna; other terms used are American chop suey when served over spaghetti noodles, and in some Midwestern states, "goulash," when served generously mixed with macaroni or penne. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Goulash Goulash with gnocchi Goulash is a spicy dish, originally from Hungary, usually made of beef, onions, red peppers, and paprika powder. ... Close-up photo of a handful of macaroni. ... Penne rigate (ridged penne) Penne are a type of pasta originating in Italy. ...


See also

Neapolitan ragù (ragù napoletano in Italian) is one of the two most famous varieties of meat sauces called ragù. (The other one is the renowned Bolognese sauce popular worldwide. ...

Further reading


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Bolognese sauce - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (584 words)
Bolognese sauce is sometimes taken to be a tomato sauce.
Less traditionally, the sauce is served with rigatoni or used as the stuffing for lasagne or cannelloni.
In Italy, Bolognese sauce is generally not served with spaghetti because the pieces of meat tend to fall off that shape of pasta and stay on the plate.
Simmer Stock - Kitchen scripts: Sauce Bolognese (1215 words)
Sauce Bolognese is Prima facie evidence of this.
Sauce Bolognese is a ragu, which pretty much means stewed meat sauce (despite what you may gather from reading the labels of that stuff you find in the supermarket, real ragu does not contain high fructose corn syrup).
I like to call it the sixth mother sauce (the five mother sauces—sauces upon which all other sauces are based—as defined by the French—are Bechamel, Velouté, Hollandaise, Espagnole, Mayonnaise and Vinaigrette), Sauce Bolognese is the result of long cooking over low heat of meat, mirepoix, tomato, milk and wine.
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