Grammy's Kitchen · Bolognese Sauce · Contadina® Quick Bolognese Sauce
One of 115 bolognese sauce recipes we measured
from www.allrecipes.com
It ranks #1 of 115 for gravy quality among the bolognese sauce recipes we compared. 12 cooks on www.allrecipes.com rate it 3.9★.
Every ingredient resolved to grams, expressed against the recipe's own base — next to the median of all 115.
| this recipe | typical | |
|---|---|---|
| liquid | 56% | 45% |
| fat | 0% | 4% |
| aromatics | 30% | 26% |
| vegetables and beans | 169% | 126% |
| collagen idx | 0.8 | 0.8 |
| marbling idx | 0.6 | 0.6 |
Adapts cleanly: dairy-free, egg-free, nut-free (documented swaps, applied on the dish page)
Weights computed by us.
| 454 g | 1 pound lean ground beef |
| 85 g | 3 ounces bacon, chopped |
| 160 g | 1 cup chopped onion |
| 50 g | 0.5 cup sliced celery |
| 64 g | 0.5 cup chopped carrots |
| 120 g | 0.5 cup COLLEGE INN® Fat Free & Lower Sodium Beef Broth, or red or white wine |
| 794 g | 1 (28 ounce) can CONTADINA® Crushed Tomatoes |
| 183 g | 0.75 cup whole milk |
| Cooked pasta |
Method: 3 steps, published by www.allrecipes.com — open the original ↗ or use bake mode for a follow-along with a screen that stays on.
“This is a nice quick recipe but I would definitely recommend sautéing the bacon and onions first. Get the bacon a little crispy otherwise you have little pieces of fat throughout the sauce. I didn’t add the other vegetables but I did add garlic. With those cha” — a cook, 4★
“There was (almost) not enough salt in my kitchen to bring this sauce to life. I added a clove of garlic at the beginning and as it simmered and tasted, I added dried oregano, basil and practically a handful of garlic powder to try to get some flavor to come th” — a cook, 1★