Minced Meat Sauce Recipe in Two Variants, with and without Animal

Name: Minced meat sauce
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 40 min
Total time: 55 min
Yield: 4 Persons
Ingredients: Olive oil 1 tsp; butter 10 g; vegetarian mince 500 g; onion 1-2; Garlic clove 1 pc; Soup vegetables 1 bunch; tomato paste 3 tbs; chunky tomatoes 1 can; dry red wine 100 ml; Tamari 1 tsp; Salt 1/4 tsp; black pepper 5 pinches; brown sugar 2 pinches; marjoram 1 tbs; Water 6 l; Salt 2 tbs; tagliatelle 500 g; oliv oil 2 tbs; grated parmesan 100 g; basil 1 bunch; oliv oil 4 tsp

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Minced meat sauce in the pot — The minced meat sauce in the pot photographed from above.

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Thomas Sixt is a chef, food photographer, cookbook author and blogger.
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Today I’m going to show you two versions of minced meat sauce recipe. I like the Bolognese sauce with and without animal.

This classic comes from Italian cuisine and has become an international culinary triumph as a pasta sauce.

A video accompanies you in the kitchen. I wish you success in cooking and bon appétit! You can send me cooking questions at the end of the page via the comment function.

Table of Contents

1. Shopping List for Minced Meat Sauce
2. Recipe Minced Meat Sauce
3. Calories and Nutritional Values
4. More Cooking Ideas

1. Shopping List for Minced Meat Sauce

The practical ingredient list at the beginning of the article has proven its worth: It provides a good overview and is a help for the supermarket 🙂

Butter and olive oil
Garlic, shallots or yellow onion
Optional celery, carrot or soup vegetables
With animal: Lean minced meat
Without animal: Vegan minced meat
Tomato paste and chunky tomatoes
Salt and pepper, sugar, cayenne pepper
Pasta: Tagliatelle (egg noodles) or spaghetti
Parmesan cheese

Don’t worry, you’ll find the exact ingredient amounts in the recipe one paragraph further on.

Ingredients for minced meat sauce — The ingredients of the minced meat sauce at a glance.

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Minced meat sauce classic served with tagliatelle. © Thomas Sixt Food Photographer

2. Recipe Minced Meat Sauce

Here are the exact instructions. I leave it up to you whether you use minced meat or vegetarian minced meat. Good luck!

Minced meat sauce

Step by step instructions cooked, photographed and written down by cooking professional Thomas Sixt.

Servings 4 Persons

Calories 1130

Total Time 55 Min.

Preparation Time 15 Min.

Cook Time 40 Min.

Minced meat sauce recipe in 2 variants: Vegan or vegetarian and classic with animal mince. Step by step picture instructions and cooking video.

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Ingredients

Minced meat sauce Ingredients
1	tsp	Olive oil
10	g	butter
500	g	vegetarian mince (or minced beef or half and half)
1-2		onion (I like to use shallots)
1	pc	Garlic clove (in winter I use 2 cloves of garlic)
1	bunch	Soup vegetables (optional)
3	tbs	tomato paste
1	can	chunky tomatoes
100	ml	dry red wine (optional)
1	tsp	Tamari (I use original soy sauce)
1/4	tsp	Salt (I prefer to use Himalayan salt)
5	pinches	black pepper
2	pinches	brown sugar
1	tbs	marjoram
Pasta ingredients
6	l	Water (to cook pasta)
2	tbs	Salt (pasta water may taste like seawater!)
500	g	tagliatelle (or spaghetti)
2	tbs	oliv oil (always goes in the pasta water in Italy!)
Decoration and additions
100	g	grated parmesan
1	bunch	basil (optional thyme or parsley)
4	tsp	oliv oil (I drizzle the cold oil over the pasta.)

Instruction

Prepare the ingredients in the kitchen.

Peel the garlic and onions.

Finely dice the garlic and onions.

Prepare the diced garlic and onion in a bowl.

Fry vegan minced meat — Vegan minced meat when frying in the pan.

Sauté the vegan mince in a pan with olive oil and butter.

Fry the ground meat and vegetables — Minced meat and vegetables when frying in the pan.

Optionally, brown the minced meat in the pan.

Minced meat and onions in the pan — Sweat the onion cubes and garlic cubes with the minced meat.

Add the garlic and diced onion to the minced meat and sweat.

Season the minced meat sauce with tomato paste and herbs.

Red wine, tamari, tomatoes, tomato paste and marjoram for the sauce.

Season the sauce with salt, pepper, sugar and cayenne pepper. Allow the vegan sauce to simmer gently for 5 minutes, and the sauce with minced meat to simmer gently for at least 15 minutes. Continue to use as desired.

Cook pasta

Tagliatelle ribbon pasta fresh — Tagliatelle are Italian ribbon pasta, prepared here for cooking, presented on a cutting board.

Prepare the pasta for cooking in salted water. Bring pot of water to boil, season water with salt like sea water.

Cooking pasta — Pasta while boiling in water.

Cook the pasta al dente according to the instructions on the packet and drain.

Minced meat sauce with noodles — Minced meat sauce recipe picture.

Arrange the pasta with sauce on hot plates and serve sprinkled with herbs. I like to add a few drops of olive oil to the dish.

Optionally store sauce or more ideas

Prepare glasses for apricot jam — Prepare well-washed, heat-resistant jars for apricot jam

Optionally, you can freeze the sauce in bags: Allow the sauce to cool and fill into bags. Freeze the bags pressed flat. This makes it easier to defrost. I like to fill the sauce hot into cleaned jars. To do this, clean the jars and lids with vinegar essence, then pour in the hot sauce, seal and refrigerate. It can be kept refrigerated for about 2 weeks.

Prepare simple lasagna yourself — The casserole with two sauces tastes best even when cooked.

Another idea for using the sauce is a classic Lasagne Bolognese.

Video

I have already published the classic spaghetti bolognese with a video elsewhere. There you will find more tips from the Italian kitchen. We also use the sauce for lasagna and moussaka.