Long Cook Spaghetti Bolognaise
2 hours 15 minutes
This is the most amazing pasta sauce that has slowly developed to the long cook meal pack with ingredients that it is today.
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Ingredients
Serves: 4
- 500g mince
- 2 onions, diced
- 3 cloves garlic, crushed
- 4 rashers smoked bacon
- 2 beef stock cubes
- 1 vegetable stock cube
- 2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce, to taste
- 4 tablespoons tomato paste
- 100ml red wine
- 1 teaspoon dried mixed herbs, to taste
- mushrooms, diced (quantity up to you)
- 2 capsicums, sliced
- 4 large carrots, diced
- 2 (400g) tins diced tomatoes with garlic and herbs
- 1/2 a tomato tin water
- 1 (400g) tin red kidney beans, drained
Directions
Preparation:15min ›
Cook:2hours ›
Ready in:2hours15min
- Brown the mince on a very high heat then drain the fat.
- Add the onions and garlic; fry for a few minutes.
- Add the bacon, stock cubes and Worcestershire sauce; fry for a minute
- Add the tomato paste, wine and mixed herbs.
- Fry for a few minutes so that the liquid reduces down and is very concentrated.
- Add the mushrooms, capsicum, carrots, tomatoes and half a tomato tin of water.
- Taste and adjust with more tomato puree, wine, herbs, salt and pepper.
- Bring to the boil then reduce the heat and simmer gently for an hour and a half minimum. The longer you cook it the richer and more savoury it becomes. It needs to be cooked very gently.
- Add the kidney beans 10 minutes before the end of the cooking time and stir through; these add texture and fibre.
- Serve with pasta and/or a green salad.
