Meat sauce
Presentation
This is the meat sauce that we have been making in the family for decades. A simple recipe that allows you to obtain a tasty and aromatic ragù, different from the usual meat ragù drowned in tomato. An alternative preparation but still 100% Italian to try. I also show you how to keep it in jars for many weeks.
Ingredients:
- 1500g of minced meat (600g beef - 500g pork - 400g chicken)
- 200g of tomato puree
- 50g of shallot or onion
- 200ml of olive oil
- 1 clove of garlic
- 2 basil leaves
- 2 bay leaves
- rosemary and sage to taste
- 3 cloves
- 150ml of white wine
- salt to taste
Preparation:
1 In a saucepan, brown the chopped shallot, oil and garlic over medium heat. 2 When the sautéed vegetables lighten, add the tomato puree, mix, 3 add the basil and cook for about 1 minute.
4 At this point add the minced meat and mix everything well, mixing and shelling the meat well. 5 When the mixture is homogeneous, add the bay leaf, sage and rosemary tied in a bunch so they don't get lost and the cloves. Mix everything well. 6 When the meat begins to change colour, add the glass of wine, mix well and lower the heat a little so that the ragù boils slowly.
7 Cook the ragù for another 90 minutes, stirring occasionally. 8 In order to preserve the ragù for a long time in the refrigerator, you need to put it into jars. Boil the jars with their caps in a pot full of water for at least a couple of minutes. In the meantime, remove the aromatic herbs from the ragù. Use pliers to take a jar out of the boiling water and fill it with the ragù which is still boiling. 9 Finally, collect a little of the liquid from the ragù and pour it into the jar until it covers all the meat. At this point, take the lid from the boiling water with the pliers and close the jar with the help of some absorbent paper so as not to burn yourself and clean the jar if it gets dirty during filling. Repeat this procedure until you finish the sauce in the casserole. If the liquid is not enough to make all the jars, you can add some olive or seed oil.
Advise
- By closing the jars while they are still boiling, you can store your meat sauce for several months simply in the refrigerator.
- If you happen to open a jar without consuming it all, add a little seed oil until it completely covers the surface. In this way the remainder in the jar will be kept for several days.
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