Pasta Bolognese

How to make pasta bolognese without using a jar of sauce! It's so easy to make your own bolognese sauce, cheaper & a lot healthier.

All ingredients in the photo apart from the pasta is from Aldi

Ingredients

Pasta - Up to you what pasta you use but for bolognese it's best to use penne, fussili or tagliatelle. 

Mince meat - Again up to you, beef, lamb, pork. I used turkey. Which made me think how come you can get every meat minced but you can't chicken??

Onion - I ended up using 2

Courgette

Chestnut Mushrooms

Couple of cloves of Garlic

2 Fresh Tomatoes

Tin of Chopped Tomatoes

Tomato Purée

Boil your pasta.

In a heated oiled pan, put your garlic in. Then fry your mince for a couple of minutes with the lid over the pan.

Once you mince is cooked you can add your onions.

Once you onion have softened & have gone translucent, add your courgette.

You might need to add a bit of water & cover the pan. Once your courgette is soft add your mushrooms.

Once all your ingredients are soft & cooked, you can pour the whole tin of chopped tomatoes in.

Something everyone should have in your kitchen cupboard or fridge is a tube of tomato purée. It is so useful for thickening sauces. Squeeze a couple of table spoons of it into your pan until the sauce is nice & thick. Once it starts to bubble you can add your pasta in.

Season with salt & pepper. And there you have it. Your own pasta bolognese without using a jar of sauce!

You can add the fresh tomatoes into your pasta or just put it on top when you've plated up. I prefer having tomatoes cold.

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