Italian Bolognaise Sauce/Bolognese sauce

One of the famous Italian sauce is Bolognaise sauce, prepared with minced meat, tomatoes with a hand ful of spices n herbs, this sauce tastes awesome with pastas...the origin of this sauce is from Bologna in Italy..Bolognese sauce is sometimes taken to be a tomato sauce but authentic recipes have only a small amount of tomato. Learned this sauce from one of my Italian friend, its became one of my fav sauce with pasta..

1no Onions(chopped)

1/2kg Minced Meat

1no Whole tomatoes (canned)

1cup Tomato puree

3nos Bay leaves

3sprigs Thyme

2tsp Coriander seeds

5nos Cloves

1no Cinnamom stick (big)

1tsp Basil leaves

3nos Rosemary sprigs

2nos Dry Red chillies

1tsp Pepper powder

Salt

3tsp Olive oil

Take a small muslin cloth, put the coriander seeds, cloves, cinnamon stick,rosemary sprigs, dry red chillies into the muslin cloth n tie them well, they will looks like a small bag, keep aside..

Heat Olive oil in a large pan, add the bay leaves n thyme sprigs n fry them..now add the chopped onions cook until they turns tender..add the minced meat (here i used goat minced meat, can also use beef minced meet)..cook them until they change the colour, now add the canned whole tomatoes, tomato puree n also pepper powder, salt n basil leaves.

Add the muslin bag with spices now..add enough water(adjust ur sauce as per ur need) to the meat n tomatoes sauce..cook them atleast for one hour in simmer..remove the muslin spice bag while serving..

Serve hot with any sort of Pastas..

Tasty n Colourful Italian Bolognaise Sauce is ready..

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