My Mum's Meat Sauce

Name: My Mum's Meat Sauce
Total time: 4800 s
Yield: 6 servings
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 400 grams minced/ground lean beef; 1 finely chopped onion; 2 small cloves garlic, finely chopped; 2 pinch mixed herbs; 2 can Italian plum tomatoes; 2 tbsp tomato puree/ tomato paste; 1 beef stock cube (eg OXO); 2 dried bay leaves

Celeste @celeste_xtina_C00K5

Essex

This is based on the Bolognese sauce recipe used by many mothers in the UK to feed up a family, dolloped on top of a pile of spaghetti. This is how my mother made hers...but I like to have it with macaroni or with homemade gnocchi, sprinkled with freshly grated parmesan (yum)

Celeste @celeste_xtina_C00K5

Saved

Ingredients

1 hour 20 mins

6 servings

400 gramsminced/ground lean beef
1finely chopped onion
2 smallcloves garlic, finely chopped
2 pinchmixed herbs
2 canItalian plum tomatoes
2 tbsptomato puree/ tomato paste
1beef stock cube (eg OXO)
2dried bay leaves

Saved

Steps

1 hour 20 mins

1

Heat a large saute pan, and add the mince beef with the onions and garlic, and break up the meat with a spoon while it browns.
2

Add the herbs and the bay leaves, followed by the tins of tomatoes (but don't discard the cans yet! half fill each one with water and swoosh around to get the extra tomato juice and pour that in the pan too)
3

Add the tomato puree, stir it in then reduce heat and simmer gently for an hour, stirring every now.and then and topping up with a splash of water if it gets too dry and breaking up the tomatoes
4

Remove the bay leaves, season with salt and pepper and either use straight away or put in the fridge to heat up the next day, when it will be even tastier :)