Recipe: How to make Spaghetti Bolognese

Spaghetti bolonese, or spaghetti bolonesa, is an affordable way to make restaurant-style spaghetti in your home kitchen. What identifies a bolonese sauce is two key ingredients: beef and carrots. These hearty ingredients give the sauce great flavor and value.

You will need the following ingredients:

1 flank steak (1lb.)

2 cloves garlic

1 yellow onion

1 lbs. spaghetti

1 pound of carrots

Begin with an affordable flank steak (about 1 pound of meat for 1 pound of pasta). This cut is a little tough, so I recommend tenderizing it by beating it with a tenderizer or rolling pin. Some people use s wine bottle for this, but I'm too afraid I would miss, hit the counter and shatter glass all over my food.

After the meat is well tenderized, salt both sides lightly and let it rest.

Grate a pound of carrots, slice two cloves of garlic, and dice one yellow onion.

Put 2 tablespoons of olive oil in the bottom of a thick bottomed pot, dutch oven or deep skillet.

Sear the tenderized flank steak on both sides and cook it to medium. Remove the steak from the put, but do not clean the pot yet. In the same pot put your diced onions. After 2 minutes of stirring the onions over medium heat, add the garlic and carrots.

Cook these together for four more minutes or until the carrots are fully cooked. Then add one 16oz. can of crushed tomatoes (plum tomatoes if you can find them).

Simmer this for 10 minutes while your spaghetti cooks. After you have drained the pasta, cut your steak into small cubes and add it to the simmering sauce. Dress your pasta by placing pasta and sauce in the same skillet or bowl and mixing well.

Top all of it with grated Parmesan. Enjoy.