Vegetable Loaded Bolognese

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10 Ingredients

Number of servings

2 onions, diced
2tablespoons tomato paste
1teaspoons sugar
1 pinch salt
500grams mince beef
200grams mince pork
1 pack Woolworths simmer vegetables
2 tins tomatoes (i use annalisa)
4tablespoons olive oil
2-4 cups red wine

Description

500g of vegetables hidden in the fabulous sauce thanks to Woolworths sample. Sorry I forgot photos til the end but it's pretty self explanatory.

Method

Step 1 of 5

Add oil to a very large pan, add diced onion and Woolworths Simmer vegetables. Stir for a few minutes, turn heat down to low and put a lid on. Sweat the vegetables gently for about 10 minutes making sure they don't stick or overbrown.

Step 2 of 5

Get another pan, put it on very high heat - DO NOT add any oil. Add 1/2 the pork mince and brown well, set aside, add the rest of the pork and brown, set aside. Do the same for the beef mince in batches.

Step 3 of 5

Add tomato paste, anchovies and sugar to the vegetable pan. Stir through and cook off for a couple of minutes. Add tinned tomatoes, chop and stir through NOTE - I only use Annalisa tinned tomatoes as I think they are far better than any other brands (no they are not Australian) and I always use whole tomatoes and chop them up myself as the quality of whole tinned tomatoes is much better than the diced versions.

Step 4 of 5

Add meat, stir through. Add half the wine/beef stock. Pop a lid on and cook on a low simmer for at least 2 hours (preferably 3). Check liquid levels after an hour and add the rest of the wine/beef stock. Stir again and replace the lid for the rest of the cooking time.

Step 5 of 5

This makes quite a lot of Bolognese so I separated it into 4 containers and put it in the freezer to use at a later date when I wanted a super quick delicious pasta dinner and voila out of the freezer and onto the spaghetti for a quick delicious dinner