Showing posts with label Time saver; quick & easy using frozen pre-cooked Italian tomato sauce and partially-cooked mince. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Time saver; quick & easy using frozen pre-cooked Italian tomato sauce and partially-cooked mince. Show all posts

Thursday, 22 September 2022

SMALL HOUSEHOLDS' TIME-SAVER BOLOGNAISE SAUCE, using pre-cooked freezer sauce & mince

Simple Bolognaise for singletons/twosomes, prepped ahead...
Quick & easy bolognaise with the help of freezer friends.
'So nice after a hard day at the coal face and so easy to prepare!'


This recipe is perfect for weeknight pasta dish when the body is screaming for protein and a vegetarian sauce and cheese just won't cut it

67 has already posted a recipe for making and freezing an easy rich, savoury Italian Marina Sauce.  

But pre-cooking mince or meatballs and freezing them is also a 'thing' in chefs' kitchens.  

TV chef Tom Kerridge swears by his method of pre-roasting mince until it is golden & crisp, then adding it to sauces (fresh & defrosted) when needed. 

67 tested it on a 500g/17oz package of 20%-fat beef mince from Waitrose. The   edges of Kerridge's mince were too crisp for 67's liking and appeared to defeat the purpose of being quickly incorporated into a sauce.  

Two other 67goingon50 methods were more successful: