Recipe for the best bolognese sauce ever

Looking for the recipe for the best bolognese sauce ever? You’ve come to the right place. This bolognese sauce is packed with flavor, with perfectly cooked ground meat, fresh vegetables and a rich tomato sauce that has been gently simmering for hours. Whether you want to make pasta bolognese or lasagna, this recipe gives you that creamy, full-bodied sauce that turns a weekday meal or a cozy dinner with friends and family into a little celebration. 

Ketchup in pasta sauce?!

Heated debates, Italians going wild! Suze’s father-in-law refuses to eat her pasta for this reason. But Julius doesn’t care: ‘Nostalgia! My mother would call me from the kitchen window while the smell of bolognese was already wafting out. I knew I had to get there as quickly as possible! Yes, I was a well-behaved child…and yes, Italian friends, I know this isn’t the original from Bologna. That contains pancetta, celery and milk, and definitely no ground meat and ketchup, I know… but I still call it bolognese because I love it, because that’s how I know it and that’s how I think of my mother. Too bad!’

How to make the bolognese sauce

• Heat the olive oil in a heavy-bottomed pan. Sauté the onions until translucent. Add the garlic and cook for a few more minutes.
• Add the tomato purée and cook for a few more minutes.
• Add the ground meat and cook along for a few minutes.
• Once the meat is cooked, add the spices, herbs, red wine, vegetable stock and canned peeled tomatoes. Stir well.
• Simmer gently for at least 1 hour. The longer, the better! Just make sure the sauce doesn’t stick to the bottom.
• Season with tomato ketchup, salt and pepper.

Tips: Delicious with: pasta, but definitely not spaghetti! Every type of pasta has its own sauce. Storage advice: 3 days in the refrigerator.

Cookbook: Sausbijbel

In Sausbijbel, Julius Jaspers shows you, with more than 250 recipes and handy tips, how to make the best sauces and flavorings yourself, using clear instructions and step-by-step photography. From BBQ sauces to butter sauces, and from dressings, oils and vinaigrettes to sauces with or for vegetables, meat, fish and shellfish. From now on, you can also make the ultimate bolognese yourself with this recipe.

Title: Sausbijbel
Author: Julius Jaspers
Price: €33,99
Publisher: Carrera Culinair

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