meat sauce for pasta

Here is a well known sauce which you need to be able to cook in order to get yourself a typical Italian husband which wants three meals a day with at least three serving each


INGREDIENTS

two-three spoons olive oil

1 Kilo extra leaned minced meat (plus some extra bits of your preference to give it extra taste)

salt, some sliced onion

1 glass red or white wine

a lot of chopped tomatoes or similar (has to be enough for the meat to be covered by it)

lot of basil (but some use parsley)

Parmesan cheese


PREPARATION:

better to prepare it the day before.

You put the meat in the pot (preferably a red pot - terracotta?) together with the onion.

Both have to roast to the point to be brown but not burned.

At that point you add the wine little by little stirring all the time and not leaving the sauce alone with a wooden spoon.

The onions will nearly disappear in the end.
When the meat is a nice golden colour, you add the tomato.

Put a little salt (not too much as when the sauce is cold the taste of the salt will be more evident), stir again and cover with the lid, leaving a little gap.

And now the boring part: The sauce have to cook for at least three hours at a very very gentle heat, just enough to make it bubbly.


You can use this sauce on spaghetti, noodles, short pasta etc