This bolognese sauce is a hearty, easy to make meat sauce using ground beef, crushed tomatoes, wine, Italian herbs and spices and just a few other simple ingredients served over the pasta of your choice.

Bolognese Sauce

From the recipe collection of Tara Ippolito

Bolognese sauce may just be my favorite pasta sauce of all time.

It’s so filling, delicious and pure comfort food at its best. I just love this recipe.

The wine, beef broth, Italian seasonings and other ingredients come together so well as this sauce thickens on the stove.

Every bite is its own concentrated flavor bomb. I could eat it right out of the sauce pan with a spoon if I had my way.

There is no better smell to permeate the house than a nice, fragrant sauce like this one simmering on the stove.

My family is always so exited to come home to the smell of this sauce cooking. They all love this sauce, too.

I hope you give this bolognese recipe a try. If you do, I know that you’ll love it just as much as my family and I do.

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Bolognese sauce variations

I love this bolognese sauce recipe exactly how it is, but here are some ways to switch it up if you’d like to.

• Beef- ground chicken, pork, veal or turkey can be used to replace the ground beef if you’d like to swap that out or create your own blend.
• Wine- any red or white wine would work for this recipe. Just be sure to use a good quality wine that you would drink and not a “cooking” wine.

• Seasoning- if you’d like to add some herbs to this dish, add some red pepper flakes in while sautéing the vegetables. Bay leaves can be added while the sauce is simmering, too. Just be sure to pull them out before serving. Add any additional seasonings and herbs you’d like.
• Pasta- I like to choose a thin, long pasta for this sauce recipe but really any pasta will do so choose your favorite.
• Cream- I used a little bit of cream here but milk works perfectly, too.

Other pasta recipes

If you like delicious pasta recipes like this one, here are some others that I know you’ll love, too.

• Marry Me Pasta
• The Best Vodka Sauce
• Easy Chickenh Tetrazzini
• Pink Marinara Alfredo

Bolognese sauce ingredients

• Celery, carrots, onion, chopped
• Ground beef
• Garlic, minced
• Red wine
• Beef broth
• Tomato paste
• Crushed tomatoes
• Cream

• Butter
• Olive oil
• Salt, pepper, garlic powder, Italian seasoning
• Pasta of choice (ladle of pasta water)

Instructions

First, heat some butter and olive oil in a large skillet and add the chopped carrots, celery and onion.

Now, lightly season them with salt and pepper and sauté them for about 10 minutes or until the vegetables are soft.

Then, add the ground beef and break it into small pieces while browning it.

Next, once the beef is browned, add the minced garlic and season it with salt, pepper, garlic powder and Italian seasoning.

Now stir in the wine and bring it to a gentle boil out for about 2-3 minutes.

Then, stir the tomato paste into the beef mixture for about one minute.

Next, add the beef broth and let that gently boil in the sauce for about 2 minutes.

Now, stir in the crushed tomatoes and add the cream.

Then, season the sauce with salt, pepper, garlic powder and Italian seasoning and let the sauce simmer for about 10 minutes or more if desired.

Next, add a little bit of butter, a ladle of pasta water and some freshly shredded basil and stir that into the sauce until the butter has melted.

Finally, add the pasta to the sauce and toss everything together until it’s evenly coated in the bolognese sauce.

Serve warm, top with some grated Parmesan cheese and enjoy!