Name: How to Make Bolognese Sauce | Hilah Cooking
Uploaded: 2025-08-19T17:53:18.000Z
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Hey dudes, I'm Hilah, and today on Hilah Cooking, I'm going to share with you my bolognese, or spaghetti meat sauce recipe.

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Okay, so we're going to start out, get a really big pot.

We're going to put a little bit of olive oil in it, and then I've got some bacon here that

If you don't eat pork, and you don't want to use bacon, you can just use an extra tablespoon of olive oil, or you can use prosciutto if you want to make it a little more authentic.

So we're going to cook the bacon and the olive oil together until most of the fat is kind of rendered out.

That'll take a few minutes over medium heat, and it's okay if it gets a little brown bits on there.

And then we're going to add our aromatics, which is the onion, the carrots, and the celery, and stir that around until those vegetables get a little bit softened, and that'll take a few more minutes.

And then we'll add about a pound of ground beef, and mix that around with all the vegetables, get it really, really nice and finely broken up, and just cook it until it's no longer pink.

And then we're going to add about a cup of wine and let that reduce.

If you don't drink wine, or you don't want to add alcohol, you can use some chicken stock or some beef stock.

And you don't need to use a really expensive wine, but you definitely want to use something that you wouldn't mind having a glass of yourself, because as it cooks, those flavors are going to concentrate.

So you don't want crappy wine, obviously, or else you're going to just have a concentrated crap flavor in your sauce, and that sounds terrible.

Once the wine's reduced, we're going to add our spices, some salt, some pepper, red chili flakes if you want a little bit of kick, and then we're going to add our tomato puree.

Get that mixed up, and we're just going to put a lid on it and let it simmer for about an hour, and I think in about 45 minutes would be a good time to start cooking some pasta.

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We're going to top it with some sauce, because that's why we made this stuff.

It's been so long since I made this for myself.

So a lot of Bolognese recipes, or some of them, maybe traditionally all of them did, a lot of cream added to them, but I prefer to save my dairy for some grated cheese on top, but you could add some heavy cream at the end if you want.

So this principle recipe and all my recipes are always available at HilahCooking.com as usual, and please don't forget to subscribe, and if you like this recipe, you might also like the eggplant Parmesan sandwiches I did a couple months ago.

It's so hard to eat noodles in a classy way.

The sauce is just the right amount of sweet and spicy, and it's an excellent balanced meat sauce.

Please leave a comment and visit me at HilahCooking.com if you have any questions about the recipe, and I'll talk to you later.