7 Leftover Meat Sauce or Bolognese Recipes. – The Pasta Challenge

It’s good to alter issues up and there are such a lot of scrumptious Italian pasta recipes with floor meat ragu, not simply spaghetti Bolognese or lasagna!

What’s the distinction between Bolognese and meat sauce?

The fundamental identify for a pasta meat sauce in Italy is ‘ragu’. However, there are lots of sorts of Italian ragu. Bolognese is one sort of ragu or meat sauce that comes from Bologna in Emilia-Romagna, therefore the identify!

Apparently, the folks of Bologna usually discuss with their model of meat sauce as simply ‘ragu’. Restaurant menus there listing it as tagliatelle al ragu alla Bolognese or just tagliatelle al ragu. Tagliatelle is the standard pasta for ragu in Bologna, not spaghetti!

There’s really an official recipe for ragu alla Bolognese which the Bologna department of the Italian Academy of Delicacies submitted to the Bologna Chamber of Commerce on October seventeenth, 1982. You’ll be able to learn extra about this recipe and easy methods to make it on my tagliatelle Bolognese publish.

Forms of ragu in Italy.

There are two important sorts of Italian meat sauce or ragu. The primary is made with floor meat which could be beef, pork, veal, lamb or sausage meat or a mixture of two or 3 of these. Then there are pasta meat sauces which have bigger cuts of meat like steak or braising beef, pork fillet, recreation, prosciutto, sausages, rabbit, duck, lamb and even pork ribs. Once more, some sauces comprise a couple of sort of meat.

Most Italian ragu recipes are made with tomatoes however some usually are not. Italians name these ragu bianco, which means chicken sauce. There are additionally some white or tomato meat sauces with cream.

Pasta recipes for leftover meat sauce or Bolognese.

The most effective pasta dishes to make use of your leftover Bolognese or meat sauce are those who produce other substances in or with the sauce. These recipes not solely make a pleasant change from simply pasta with meat sauce, however additionally they work very well in the event you don’t have sufficient leftover sauce to serve it alone. Beneath are among the recipes I like to make use of my leftover ragu in.

These recipes work with any floor meat pasta sauce however not sauces with bigger cuts of meat. The latter are finest simply served once more with freshly cooked pasta. Though, you possibly can all the time change the pasta form to make it completely different!

Click on the recipe identify to be taught extra in regards to the dish and get recipe directions.

Italians name this dish pasta alla Montecarlo. This can be a up to date Italian beef ragu recipe historically made by combining a straightforward floor beef ragu with contemporary cream and basil pesto. Nonetheless, any leftover Bolognese or floor meat sauce works too. That is an extremely wealthy and flavourful sauce that you would be able to serve with brief or lengthy pasta.

Historically made with Bolognese, you may make this pasta pie with different sorts of floor meat ragu. This household favorite is a pastry encased pasta pie crammed with tortellini, meat sauce and grated Parmigiano. It’s scrumptious eaten heat or chilly. Good for picnics and potlucks too.

Rigatoni pasticciati is a pasta pie with pastry from Trentino Alto-Adige, the Northern Italy mountain area that borders with Austria. It’s made with rigatoni, floor meat ragu, sautéed mushrooms and grated cheese all inside a shortcrust pastry case. It truly is a superb method to make use of up leftover meat sauce or Bolognese!

This scrumptious second conventional recipe from Trentino-Alto Adige has meat sauce or Bolognese in addition to peas, ham, cream and onions. It’s normally served with pasta tubes corresponding to rigatoni, elicoidali, penne rigate or sedani.

This scrumptious double sauce pasta recipe from Tuscany is a singular and delicous method to make use of up leftover ragu. Referred to as Tuscan pasta tordellata, this deconstructed model of a standard tortelli recipe tastes nearly as good because the crammed pasta dish, with much less work! Made with ragu, ricotta and Swiss chard.

The bottom sauce for this conventional Sicilian baked anellleti is a ragu like Bolognese however with peas. Nonetheless, you may make this dish with any floor meat sauce and add peas if you reheat it. The opposite substances aside from anelletti pasta are cooked ham, breadcrumbs, and cheese corresponding to caciocavallo and parmigiano or pecorino.

On this significantly scrumptious do-it-yourself pasta recipe from Abruzzo, the contemporary pasta sheets are crammed and coated with a floor meat and sausage ragu after which baked. Nonetheless, you need to use different sorts of meat sauce to make this tremendous various to lasagna!

Different methods to make use of up your leftover meat sauce or Bolognese.

Aside from the recipes above you possibly can practically all the time make a easy baked pasta along with your leftover meat sauce. Simply warmth the sauce, combine it with some cooked pasta in an oven dish. High it with some grated parmigiano and/or mozzarella and bake within the oven till the highest will get crispy.

If in case you have frozen your leftover Bolognese or floor meat sauce, let it defrost earlier than reheating. Frozen sauce is nice for about 3 months if frozen in a sealed container or bag.

Let me know what you assume.

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Buon Appetito!