A bolognese that gains depth by being cooked for several hours in the oven.
Main courses
20 steps8 servings
Ingredients
250 g carrot
250 g onion
150 g celery
4 pcs garlic cloves
100 g pancetta
1000 g minced meat
3 tbsp tomato purée
6 pcs anchovies
750 ml red wine
1 tsp marmite
1 pcs chicken bouillon
4 pcs bay leaf
1 tsp soy
parsley
parmesan cheese
rapeseed oil
Instructions
Peel the carrot, onion and garlic, wash the celery from any dirt.
In a food processor, blend the carrot, onion, celery and garlic until smooth.
Dice the pancetta and set aside.
Set the oven to 120C.
Heat a large pot over medium heat with some rapeseed oil. Then fry the vegetable mix, mainly to remove excess liquid.
While the vegetable mix is frying, heat a frying pan over medium heat and start frying the pancetta. It should become translucent and start to crisp.
Add the pancetta to the vegetable mix, but save the fat in the frying pan as frying fat for the minced meat (otherwise you can fry in some regular rapeseed oil).
Then fry the minced meat in batches so that you get a browned surface - you can put the fried minced meat in a bowl while you are cooking.
Make room for the tomato puree in the pot by pushing the vegetable mix aside. Add in the tomato puree and fry.
When the minced meat is fried, you can then pour everything into the pot with the vegetable mix and mix it all together.
Pour all the wine into the pot.
Take the anchovies and finely chop. Add into the pot.
Add Marmite, soy sauce, chicken broth and bay leaf.
Place the entire pot in the oven with the lid on and let cook for about 3-4 hours; check the pot every now and then to see if you need to add more water.
Take the pot out and put it back on the stove.
Let it reduce to the consistency you prefer.
Grate the desired amount of Parmesan and add into the pot.
Chop the parsley in the desired amount and add into the pot.
Let simmer for a few more minutes.
Serve the bolognese with pasta of your choice, and top with more parmesan and parsley.