Recipe - Bolognaise Sauce For Pasta

2 tablespoon Olive oil
500 g Minced beef
1 lg Onion; chopped
2 Cloves garlic; crushed
1 tablespoon Flour
1 Jar; (375 g) tomato paste
1 cup Red wine
1 teaspoon Beef stock powder; (or 1
cube)
Chopped parsley; (as much as
I can find in the garden)
Freshly ground pepper

OPTIONAL EXTRAS
1 Stick celery; chopped
1 Carrot; grated
4 Mushrooms; chopped, (up to
5)
Garlic salt to taste

Lightly brown the onion, garlic and celery in the oil, over medium heat,
add the meat and continue cooking and stirring until all the meat in
browned and crumbly looking. Add the stock powder, flour, garlic salt and
as much ground pepper as you like, stir through. Add the red wine, tomato
paste and as much water as needed to achieve the desired consistency. Add
the carrot if you want it. At this stage I turn the heat way down low, put
the lid on the pot and go away and do something else for an hour or so,
stirring the sauce occasionally on my way past. When I'm ready I add the
mushrooms and parsley, and cook for at least another 10 minutes. The sauce
is now ready to eat or freeze as required.

Notes: * I often make large batches (up to 2 kg meat) of this sauce and
freeze it in 1meal size containers.

* When I want to "hide" lots of vegetables in this, I blend the cooked
sauce in the blender on low speed.

* This sauce is great as a pour over sauce for all types of pasta, and I
also use it in lasagne.

Posted to TNT Recipes Digest, Vol 01, Nr 927 by "Eric Wollff"
lupus@c031.aone.net.au on Jan 11, 1998