Easy Bolognese Sauce Recipe – I love my thermomix – I really do!!! Usually when I make spaghetti bolognese I do it the way I have always done it – on a stove, chopping onions, stirring, waiting….
Tonight I have a babysitter coming to look after the kids, so wanted dinner all ready for me to be able to walk out the door.
Spaghetti bolognese is a meal that always pleases my kids, so I was really happy to find a quicker way of cooking it. I made it this morning in between school lunches and brushing teeth – it was fantastic!
So great knowing dinner is cooked and I hardly had to lift a finger.
I had made a bolognese sauce in the thermomix once before when I first got it, and must say that I wasn’t too impressed. I think it is because I basically just did it the stove-top way.
Today I didn’t use a jar of pasta sauce that I usually do, nor did I use canned tomatoes. I used lots of fresh veggies, and it tastes wonderful! I really hope you try this recipe.
Bolognese Sauce
Ingredients
- 1 onion
- 3 cloves garlic
- 20g olive oil
- 4 – 5 ripe tomatoes
- 2 carrots
- ½ zucchini
- ½ red capsicum
- 500g beef mince
- 70g tomato paste
- 100g button mushrooms or small can champignons
- 2 Tablespoons stock concentrate
- 100g water (or red wine)
Method
Place onion and garlic in thermomix bowl and chop for 3 seconds on speed 5
Add olive oil and cook for 3 minutes at 100°C on speed 1
Add tomatoes, carrot, zucchini, red capsicum and herbs at chop for 5 seconds on speed 6
Add mince, mushrooms, tomato paste, stock concentrate and water then cook for 45 minutes at 100°C on reverse + speed soft
Once cooked place in thermoserve bowl to keep warm while you cook the pasta.
Serves: 6
Approximate calories per serve: 212
