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Gordon Ramsay Bolognese Sausage Recipe

Gordon Ramsay Bolognese Sausage Recipe

My Gordon Ramsay-style bolognese sausage recipe — Italian sausage meat, red wine and a slow simmer for a deeply savoury ragu.
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Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 1 hour 45 minutes
Total Time 2 hours 5 minutes
Servings: 6 People
Course: Main Course
Cuisine: British
Calories: 620
Ingredients Method Notes

Ingredients
  

  • 2 tbsp olive oil
  • 1 onion finely diced
  • 2 carrots finely diced
  • 2 celery sticks finely diced
  • 3 garlic cloves finely chopped
  • 700 g Italian sausages skins removed
  • 150 ml red wine
  • 2 x 400g tins chopped tomatoes
  • 2 tbsp tomato purée
  • 1 tsp dried oregano
  • Pinch of chilli flakes optional
  • Salt and black pepper
  • 400 g tagliatelle or pappardelle
  • Parmesan grated

Method
 

  1. Cook onion, carrot and celery 10 minutes. Add garlic 1 minute.
  2. Brown sausage meat in rough chunks, 5–6 minutes.
  3. Combine, add wine, reduce.
  4. Add tomatoes, purée, oregano, chilli flakes. Simmer 1–1.5 hours.
  5. Cook pasta, reserve some pasta water.
  6. Toss pasta through ragu, loosen with pasta water. Serve with Parmesan.

Notes

Whole sausages with skins removed give better control over flavour and fat content than loose sausage meat.
Brown the meat in rough chunks to keep some texture in the ragu.
Freezes well for up to 3 months, without the pasta.
Taste before adding salt, as sausage meat is often already well seasoned.