Grammy's Kitchen · Bolognese Sauce · Authentic Bolognese Sauce
One of 115 bolognese sauce recipes we measured
381 cooks on anitalianinmykitchen.com rate it 5.0★.
Every ingredient resolved to grams, expressed against the recipe's own base — next to the median of all 115.
| this recipe | typical | |
|---|---|---|
| liquid | 33% | 45% |
| fat | 5% | 4% |
| aromatics | 31% | 26% |
| vegetables and beans | 111% | 126% |
| collagen idx | 0.8 | 0.8 |
| marbling idx | 0.6 | 0.6 |
Adapts cleanly: dairy-free, egg-free, gluten-free, nut-free (documented swaps, applied on the dish page)
Weights computed by us.
| 27 g | 2 tablespoons olive oil |
| 61 g | 1 small/medium carrot |
| 40 g | 1 small celery stalk |
| 150 g | 1 small onion |
| 298 g | 10 1/2 ounces ground beef (70-80% lean) |
| 298 g | 10 1/2 ounces ground pork |
| 118 g | 1/2 cup dry red wine |
| 33 g | 2 tablespoons tomato paste |
| 562 g | 2 1/4 cups tomato puree (passata) |
| 2-3 pinches salt | |
| 4 g | 2 dashes pepper |
| 2 g | 1-2 whole bay leaves |
| 81 g | 1/3 cup milk (2 % or whole milk) |
Method: 5 steps, published by anitalianinmykitchen.com — open the original ↗ or use bake mode for a follow-along with a screen that stays on.
“A couple of years ago I decided to stop just dumping a jar of “spaghetti sauce” over browned meat and look up an actual recipe for bolognese and do it right. That led me here, and I’m so glad. The sauce was amazing — my daughter’s face still lights up anytime ” — a cook, 5★
“Thank you for a delicjous recipe. I always cooked my meat sauce over night, using stock and no wine. My sauce was intense, and i loved it. My italian colleague want impressed, and we had a beef over this. I accept defeat, since after following this, I have cha” — a cook, 5★