Recipe: Appetizing Elena's Ragu sauce - Tuscan style

Elena's Ragu sauce - Tuscan style. This wonderful meat sauce of ground beef and pork is great served over spaghetti, fettuccini, or homemade ravioli. Reviews for: Photos of Tuscan Style Meat Sauce (Ragu Toscano). Reviews for: Photos of Tuscan Sausage Ragu.

These quantities will serve six people as a sauce for pasta. I make it and portion it up and freeze it - giving an almost instant supper for those nights when you don't have time to cook something from scratch. A Ragu is a hearty meat sauce from the Tuscan region in Italy. You can cook Elena's Ragu sauce - Tuscan style using 13 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Elena's Ragu sauce - Tuscan style

1. It's 400 g of beef ground.
2. Prepare 400 g of pork ground.
3. You need 200 g of chicken liver.
4. It's 2 of Italian sausages.
5. You need 3 of onions.
6. You need 3 of carrots.
7. It's 3 stalks of celery.
8. Prepare 8 cloves of garlic.
9. You need 3 of tinns of peeled tomatoes.
10. You need 350 ml of red wine.
11. Prepare 4 of table spoons of extra virgin olive oil.
12. You need of Salt.
13. Prepare Half of chilli.

As with most Italian recipes, there are many variations. The meat is the star in this long-simmered thick meaty sauce. Goes well over tagliatelli, fettucine, ravioli, tortellini or gnocchi. Not all meat sauces are the same, but you can make lasagne with all of them!!!

Elena's Ragu sauce - Tuscan style step by step

1. Key is to chop vegetables in the same size, and tiny.
2. Pour extra virgin olive oil plenty of them to almost 'fry' the vegetables. DON'T add salt now, as it takes out water from vegetables..
3. Use bigger pan and high heat to almost burn the vegetables to add flavour. That's the surprising point, burn.... Once burn, add salt, a bit stronger..
4. Take the skin of sausages out. Only spices used are from the sausages. Not liver here, yet..
5. Add the meats into the pan with the vegetables.
   
6. Chop chicken liver into almost paste.
7. When the meats and vegetables get dark brown, add chicken liver. Tasting if enough salt!?!?.
8. Once mixed well, and colour changed, pour the red wine. Use good wines, with a bit of acidity.
9. Then, add tinned peeled tomatoes. Then, add a half piece of chilli..
10. Use lower heat for an hour minimum. You might taste better the day after, even..
11. When eating with pasta, use thicker pastas..

This recipe is a fairly new entry in our house, I would say it represents a. Looking for an easy pasta sauce recipe? Creamy Tuscan Garlic Tortellini Soup is so easy to make and one of the best soups that you will make! This is a very simple meat sauce for your pasta or lasagna. It will be richer if you use different types of ground meats.