Pork Sausage Ragù

Distinct flavour suitable for all sorts of pasta, also excellent with simple slices of bread or Eggs in Purgatory.

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Serves 4, Preparation 25 mins, Cooking about 50 minutes

• 500 g Italian pork sausage
• EVOO – Extra Virgin Olive Oil, 4 tablespoons
• 1 white onion, finely diced
• 1 carrot, finely diced
• 1 celery stalk, finely diced
• half a glass of still white or red wine, preferably at room temperature
• 500 ml tomato passata
• a teaspoon of tomato paste
• half a glass of water at room temperature
• Salt, to taste

Method

Heat 4 tablespoons of EVOO in a saucepan.

Add the soffritto, i.e. diced onion, carrot and celery, gently sauté over a low flame for a few minutes until wilted.
Remove the casing from the sausage and coarsely crumble it, add it to the soffritto and brown it, then add a teaspoon of tomato paste, stir.

Raise the flame, deglaze with half a glass of white wine or red wine and allow the alcohol to evaporate. Lower the flame again.

Add tomato sauce and dilute with a drop of water.
Keep cooking on a low flame with the lid on for about 45-50 minutes. Add salt to taste halfway through the cooking time. Ready when it thickens a bit.

A side note: in general we are not big fans of adding either sugar or bicarbonate to our tomato sauces especially when they have a meat base. At most we can add a dash of milk very sparingly as in the traditional Bolognese Ragù.
We recommend adding a piece of raw carrot, which absorbs the acidity of the tomato and at the same time releases its natural sugars.

 

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