Spaghetti with a Bolognaise Sauce

It’s Bolognese in Italian and Bolognaise in French and on my plate it’s spaghetti with a meat sauce.
“True” Bolognaise sauces only have a small amount of tomato in them and this one is loaded so call it what you may, it’s still delicious!
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Ingredients:
2 tablespoons Olive Oil
1 small onion chopped
2 cloves garlic diced or minced
1 lb ground beef
1 15oz can tomatoes chopped
4 tablespoons tomato paste
1 teaspoon dried oregano
1 teaspoon dried basil
13 oz spaghetti

Directions:
Heat the oil in a large pan and cook the onion and garlic until the onion is tender (about 2 minutes). Add in the ground beef and cook over high heat until the beef is well browned. Use a fork to break up any large pieces.

Add the undrained can of tomatoes, tomato paste, oregano and basil. Bring all of this to a boil then lower the heat to low and simmer uncovered for about 1 hour and 30 minutes or until the sauce has thickened.

Serve over cooked spaghetti with some freshly grated Parmesan cheese on top.

This will serve about 4 people or in my case (since the husband doesn’t LIKE spaghetti meat sauce) about 5 days worth. Mmmmmm

image Notes:
- Usually I use about 4 to 6 large fresh tomatoes and a cup of water but the commissary didn’t have ANY tomatoes that looked nice so I opted for the canned tomatoes this time.
- Also, you can make this sauce up to 2 days in advance and just reheat it and serve over the pasta when it’s dinner time.
- I also add in a teaspoon of kosher salt because I really like salted food and in my opinion kosher salt is the only salt to cook with.

Posted by rachel on Wednesday, April 21, 2010 at 07:08 PM
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