The Kitchen - No-Sleep Bolognese Sauce

The Kitchen Bolognese Sauce [ Right-Click / Open Link in NEW TAB ] The Kitchen Bolognese Result [ Right-Click / Open Link in NEW TAB ] ---------------------- ---------------------- COMMENT On a no sleep 'marathon' (don't know how that happened). Cooking up a Bolognese sauce because it needs to be done, and it's a 4-hour simmer for this one. After the first half hour, it smelled sooooo good. The key to this one is (a) the soffritto (fried) 'base' and (b) the 500 ml of wine that's reduced by half  (+ citrus in this one). I've adjusted this one a little.  In addition to the recipe ingredients, I'm going with: lots of fennel seeds (fried in the soffritto thingy); 3 different herbs, incl. basil -- dried rather than fresh; mushrooms; zucchini; passata / water combo; 1 tin diced tomato. Throwing the mushroom & zucchini in on the last stretch. Fresh herbs might be better, but I didn't feel like messing around outdoors, rinsing, chopping etc.  Too much effort at the moment. If you're careful with the quantity of dry herbs, it's not overpowering.  It's only been an hour ... smelling that yummy sauce is torture. -------/\/\/  RESULT Way better than my Bolognese sauces have been getting lately. Might try this again soon, without going overboard with passata & sticking to stock next time, as tampering with passata changes the flavour and adds more acidity, & probably overpowers the flavours a bit ... but there's no complaints. All good.  Fennel seeds a hit. Loads there to freeze for future dinners. *Fresh basil for next time.