Crowd pleasing spaghetti bolognese. Our best ever spaghetti bolognese is super easy and a true Italian classic with a meaty, chilli sauce. This recipe comes courtesy of BBC Good Food user Andrew Balmer. Feed a crowd with this easy slow cooker Spaghetti Bolognese!
Get that depth of flavour by cooking the sauce very gently until it's super rich.
This is designed to be a low cost recipe.
A traditional spaghetti Bolognese recipe with homemade Bolognese sauce and tender beef, making this a family favourite.
You can cook Crowd pleasing spaghetti bolognese using 17 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Crowd pleasing spaghetti bolognese
- You need 1 of white onion finely chopped.
- Prepare 2 cloves of garlic crushed.
- It's 1-2 of carrots finely chopped.
- You need 70 g of smoked streaky bacon or pancetta finely chopped.
- You need 500 g of beef mince.
- Prepare 1 glass of red wine.
- You need 1 tsp of marmite.
- You need 2 tbsp of tomato puree.
- Prepare 1-2 tsp of sundried tomato paste.
- Prepare 1 of large or 2 medium tomatoes roughly chopped.
- It's 2 tins of tomato (I used 1 chopped and 1 plum).
- It's 2 of bay leaves.
- You need 1 tsp of fresh oregano chopped.
- You need 1 tbsp of dried mixed herbs.
- It's 2 tbsp of balsamic vinegar.
- You need of Seasoning.
- It's of Olive oil.
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Crowd pleasing spaghetti bolognese step by step
- Fry the onions, garlic and carrot over a medium heat in a little olive oil. Season with salt and pepper. Cook until soft. Then add the smoked bacon and cook for another 3 minutes.
- Add the mince and cook until brown. Then add the wine and cook until most of the liquid has evaporated..
- Add the chopped fresh tomatoes, marmite and sundried tomato paste and tomato puree (I also added chopped yellow courgettes but these are not essential) and cook for 5 minutes..
- Finally add the tinned tomatoes (rinse each tin and add the water), 2 tbsp balsamic vinegar and the herbs and simmer, half covered on a very low heat for as long as you can. I left mine for 5 hours. Check and stir regularly, adding water to loosen the mixture..
- Serve with pasta and Parmesan cheese and fresh basil if you’ve got them 🍝.
It's easy to prepare and it's a definite crowd pleaser. Spaghetti Bolognese is a classic Italian meat sauce that is a staple in most families. My super simple Spaghetti Bolognese is the perfect dinner for any night of the week and will wow your family or guests. This was a very quick, easy meal. It turned out very well and we had leftovers for lunch the following day.