Making fresh Passata Bolognese sauce is very easy to do, and great for using home grown ingredients.

The key ingredients that will make all the difference are:

• Your own tomatoes – for Passata and oven dried tomatoes
• Fresh Rosemary and Thyme
• Hardneck Garlic

They are all very easy to grow at home and will make a real flavour difference to your Bolognese sauce.

The fresh Passata Bolognese recipe

All you need is:

Ingredients:

• 500 g fresh passata
• 300 g oven dried tomatoes (or sun-dried from a jar)
• 800 g Roma, San Marzano tomatoes or 2 x 400g chopped chunky tomatoes
• 4 cloves Garlic (or 2 if Hardneck)
• 1 Onion
• 2 Sprigs fresh Rosemary
• 1 tsp Oregano
• 1 Thyme ice cube
• 500 g minced beef
• 8 Rashes smoked streaky bacon
• Salt & Pepper to taste
• Olive oil

Equipment

• Chef’s knife
• Sauce pan with lid
• Food processor

Instructions

To make the fresh Passata Bolognese

• Pre-heat the oven to 180 Degree Celsius and get all the ingredients ready.
  • Chop the garlic, onion, rosemary and bacon into small pieces.
  • In addition use the food processor to finely chop the oven dried (or sun dried) tomatoes.
• Heat oil into saucepan and add onion, garlic, rosemary and bacon – in that order. Cook for a few minutes until the onion is soft and bacon brown
• Then add the minced beef, breaking it up and stir until all of it has turned brown
• Add the wine, fresh passata, oregano, chopped tomatoes and oven dried tomatoes. And stir
• Cover pan with lid and put in oven for 1 hour
• After 30 minutes add the Thyme ice cube and stir

To store the Passata Bolognese

If stored fresh in a fridge it should last 2 to 3 days. Alternatively simply scoop into a container and store in the freezer.

Making your own Passata

The advantage of making your own passata is that the fresh tomatoes will add real flavour to your passata Bolognese recipe – for more details have a look at how to make fresh passata

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Fresh Passata Bolognese

Fresh Passata Bolognese is easy to make and your own fresh ingredients will make a real difference to the flavour

Course Main Course

Cuisine Italian

Keyword bolognese, passata, pasta

Prep Time 10 minutes

Cook Time 1 hour

Total Time 1 hour 10 minutes

Servings 8 Meals

Calories 287kcal

Author Minze Vries

Cost 0.75

Equipment

• Chef Knife – (Available from Amazon)
• Large pan
• Food processor

Ingredients

• 500 g Fresh Passata
• 800 g Roma Tomatoes or San Marzano Tomatoes or 2 x 400g chopped chunky tomatoes
• 300 g Oven dried tomatoes or sun dried from a jar
• 4 cloves Garlic or 2 of hardneck
• 1 Onion
• 2 sprigs Rosemary
• 1 tsp Oregano
• 1 ice cube Fresh Thyme
• 500 g Minced Beef
• 8 rashers Streaky smoked bacon
• 2 tbsp Olive oil

Instructions

• Pre-heat the oven to 180 Degree Celsius and get all the ingredients ready. Chop the garlic, onion, rosemary and bacon into small pieces. In addition use the food processor to finely chop the oven dried (or sun dried) tomatoes.
• Heat oil into saucepan and add onion, garlic, rosemary and bacon – in that order. Cook for a few minutes until the onion is soft and bacon brown
• Then add the minced beef, breaking it up and stir until all of it has turned brown
• Add the wine, fresh passata, oregano, chopped tomatoes and oven dried tomatoes. And stir
• Cover pan with lid and put in oven for 1 hour
• After 30 minutes add the thyme ice cube and stir

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Nutrition

Serving: 300g | Calories: 287kcal

How to grow the Passata Bolognese ingredients

Hopefully the fresh Passata Bolognese recipe might inspire you to grow your own fresh ingredients at home.

When you are cooking fresh herbs tend to make a real difference to the results. Herbs are really easy to grow at home and many of them grow really fast.

The 3 ingredients to grow are:

Your own fresh tomatoes

It’s not very difficult to grow tomatoes at home – even indoors (in your kitchen, spare bedroom, garage, etc. All you will need are seeds, growing system and some growing lights. More info at the  indoor tomato growing system

Rosemary & Thyme

Herbs are very satisfying to grow with fast results, More details how to grow herbs indoors

Garlic

If you buy garlic in a shop (like most people), then you will be surprised by the difference other types of garlic will make to your meals. For more ideas have a look at the most popular garlic types

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