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 ====== Heston Blumenthals Perfect Spaghetti Bolognese ====== ====== Heston Blumenthals Perfect Spaghetti Bolognese ======
  
 +Makes 3 liters of sauce
 +15 servings at 200 ml per serving
  
-For the Sauce Base+===== Ingredients =====
  
-1 Star Anise +==== For the Sauce Base ====
-125ml extra virgin olive oil +
-2 Large Onions (about 450g) finely sliced – to be cooked one way +
-2 Large Cloves of Garlic +
-Another 2 Large Onions to be included in the Soffrito +
-3 Large Carrots (about 400g) finely diced +
-3 Cellary Stalks (about 125g) finely diced. +
-250g Pork Shoulder +
-250g Oxtail, boned and minced +
-375ml Oaked Chardonnay +
-250ml of whole milk +
-For the Tomato Compote+
  
-1.1kg of Vine Ripened Tomatoes +  * 1 Star Anise 
-1tsp table salt +  * 125 ml extra virgin olive oil 
-200ml Extra Virgin Olive Oil +  * 2 Large Onions (about 450 g) finely sliced 
-3 Large Cloves of Garlic +  * 2 Large Cloves of Garlic 
-1 Large Onion (about 225g) finely diced +  * Another 2 Large Onions to be included in the Soffrito - grated and pulsed in food processor 
-1 heaped tsp Coriander Seeds +  * 3 Large Carrots (about 400 g) grated and pulsed in food processor 
-1 Star Anise +  * 3 Celery Stalks (about 125 g) grated and pulsed in food processor 
-3 Cloves +  * 250 g Pork Shoulder 
-4-5 Drops Tabasco +  * 250 g Beef Chuck, boned and minced 
-4-5 Drops Thai Fish Sauce +  * 375 ml Oaked Chardonnay 
-2 Tsp Worcestershire Sauce +  * 250 ml of whole milk
-1 heaped tbsp Tomato Ketchup (I know but it works) +
-30ml Sherry Vinegar +
-1 Bouquet garni (7 sprigs of Thyme and 1 fresh Bay Leaf) +
-For the finsihed Spaghetti Bolognese+
  
-Reserved Tomato Compote +==== For the Tomato Compote ====
-100g good-quality Spaghetti per person +
-Sherry Vinegar to taste +
-Parmesan Cheese (Parmigiano Reggiano) +
-1 Bouquet Garni (in a sheet of leek, wrap 6 Tarragon Leaves, 4 sprigs of parsley and the leaves from the top of a bunch of celery) +
-Unsalted butter +
-Extra Virgin Olive Oil +
-Table Salt and Freshly Ground Black Pepper +
-Preparing the Sauce Base+
  
-Place a large, heavy-bottomed frying pan over a medium heat for 5 mins. Crush the Star Anise & bag it up in a square of muslin (I just chucked ’em in & removed them at the appropriate time). Add this to the pan, along with 25ml oil & the sliced onions. Cook for 20mins, or until the onoins are soft & caramelised, stirring occasionally. Set aside. +  * 1.1 kg of Vine Ripened Tomatoes OR 500 ml canned tomato sauce 
-At the same time pre-heat another large, heavy-bottomed frying pan over a a low heat for 5 minutes. Mince the garlic. Pour 50ml of oil into the pan, then tip in the garlic, onions, carrots & celery & cook this soffritto over a medium-low heat for about 20min, or until the raw onion smell has gone. Transfer the soffritto to a bowl and wipe clean the pan. I needed to do this in batches given the quantity, size of my pan and heat available from my burners, just deglaze after each batch if you need to do this. +  * 1 tsp table salt 
-Place the pan over a high heat for 10mins. Pour 50ml olive oil & wait until it starts smoking: it must be hot enough so the meat browns rather than stews. Add the cubed pork and the minced oxtail. For the Meat, I replaced the Oxtail with ‘Mouse’s Ear’ a single muscle section from the gravy beef that my butcher, Brenta Meats, separated for me & I then finely diced. It’s a cheap cut, full of flavour and rewards long slow cooking. I also replaced the pork with my butchers excellent pork & veal mince. You might need to do this in multiple batches to ensure the meat is getting properly browned. Deglaze the pan with a slug of white wine between batches reducing it a little. Transfer the meat into a larger pot (in preparation for 8 hours of simmaring). +  * 3 Large Cloves of Garlic 
-Remove the Star Anise from the caramelised onions, then tip them into the pot containing the meat. Add the remaining wine to the onion pan to deglaze it. Reduce the wine by half & pour it into the pot with the meat. Add the soffritto. +  * 1 Large Onion (about 225g) grated and pulsed in food processor 
-With the meat pot over a very low heat, pour in the milk and enough water to cover the mix and simmer very gently without a lif for 6hrs, stirring occasionally. Make sure the mix stays covered with liquid, adding water as necessary. The milk will go chunky but it doesn’t effect the final product. +  * 1 heaped tsp Coriander Seeds 
-Preparing the Tomato Compote+  * 1 Star Anise 
 +  * 3 Cloves 
 +  * 4-5 Drops Tabasco 
 +  * 4-5 Drops Thai Fish Sauce 
 +  * 2 Tsp Worcestershire Sauce 
 +  * 1 heaped tbsp Tomato Ketchup (I know but it works) 
 +  * 30 ml Sherry Vinegar 
 +  * 1 Bouquet garni (7 sprigs of Thyme and 1 fresh Bay Leaf)
  
-For the Compote I started with 1 and 1/2 litres of home made passata for a double batch, so used this as the base for the compote. I used about 2kg of saucing tomatoes sliced in half seasoned with salt and pepper and a little oregano with a Spanish Onion, a couple of cloves of garlic & a red capsicum, partially dried in an oven at 150 Degrees C for first 20 mins and 120 Degrees C for a further 30 mins, then passed through a sieve. The drying / cooking enrichens the passata, you can peel the skins away from the capsicum before passing through a sieve. I’m sure the Italian Mama’s would use a machine for the job or at least a Moulie food mill. Check out Kok Robins blog for details of making the Compote from scratch. +==== For the finished Spaghetti Bolognese ====
-Like Kok Robin, any time it stated in the Recipe to use muslin for a spice mix going into liquid, I used a tea ball.  It’s a lot easier than fluffing around with muslin. Local Chinese grocery stores usually stock these pretty cheap. Get as big a one as you can find or even a couple to allow you to spread the flavour through a big pot. Crush Corriander, Star Anise and cloves, placein a tea ball and this to a pot with the passata in it. +
-Add the Tabasco, Fish Sauce, Worcestershire Sauce, Tomato Ketchup and Sherry Vinegar. Drop in the Bouquet Garni and cook over a low heat for 2 hours. This mix of ingredients sounds over the top, but, they really add depth, savouriness and complexity to the sauce. +
-I skipped a step designed to add a roasted note (already achieved in making the passate) and extract a compote flavoured oil.  Again – Check out Kok Robins blog for details of this step. The passate already had a roasted note from the slow cooking of the base ingredients in the oven. +
-Cooking the Spaghetti Bolognese+
  
-You’ll probably feel a little knackered by now, but, you’ll be on the home straight.+  * Reserved Tomato Compote 
 +  * 100 g good-quality Spaghetti per person 
 +  * Sherry Vinegar to taste 
 +  * Parmesan Cheese (Parmigiano Reggiano) 
 +  * 1 Bouquet Garni (in a sheet of leek, wrap 6 Tarragon Leaves, 4 sprigs of parsley and the leaves from the top of a bunch of celery) 
 +  * Unsalted butter 
 +  * Extra Virgin Olive Oil 
 +  * Table Salt and Freshly Ground Black Pepper
  
-Add the tomato compote to the pot with the meat sauce in it & simmer over a very low heat for another 2 hours, stirring occasionally. +===== Instructions ===== 
-Before taking the Bolognese sauce off the heat, check the seasoning & add some sherry vinegar (tasting as you go) to balance the richness of the sauce. Add a generous grating of Parmesan (taking care not to add too much as it can make the sauce overly salty & remove the sauce from the heat. Remove the original Bouquet Garni and Tea Ball of spices. Repalce these with the Tarragon Bouquet Garni, stir in 100g of unsalted butter & let it stand for 5 minutes. This last step adds richness with the butter & gives the sauce a fresh lift from the Tarragon Bouquet Garni. + 
-Now to the pasta. Although I often make my own I went for dried Spaghetti from Martelli. Check out Martelli’s website for more. It’s an artisan pasta made in Lari, a small medieval village near Pisa. It is expensive at $13 a kilogram, but has an amazing texture and flavour, after all the effort making Heston’s sauce, it’s worth the expense! 100g of pasta per person in salted water. If you want to go the fancy presentation finsish check out Kok Robin’s blog. If not you can just present as you wish. I strain the pasta return to the pot & add sufficient sauce, giving it a toss through over the heat & then serve.+==== Preparing the Sauce Base ==== 
 + 
 +  - Place a large, heavy-bottomed frying pan over a medium heat for 5 mins. Crush the Star Anise & bag it up in a square of muslin.  
 +  - Add this to the pan, along with 25 ml oil & the sliced onions.  
 +  - Cook for 20 mins, or until the onions are soft & caramelized, stirring occasionally.  
 +  - Set aside. 
 +  - At the same time preheat another large, heavy-bottomed frying pan over a a low heat for 5 minutes. 
 +  - Mince the garlic.  
 +  - Pour 50 ml of oil into the pan, then tip in the garlic, onions, carrots & celery & cook this soffritto over a medium-low heat for about 20 min, or until the raw onion smell has gone.  
 +  - Transfer the soffritto to a bowl and wipe clean the pan. 
 +  - Place the pan over a high heat for 10 mins. Pour 50 ml olive oil & wait until it starts smoking: it must be hot enough so the meat browns rather than stews.  
 +  - Add the cubed pork and the minced oxtail.  
 +  - Do this in multiple batches to ensure the meat is getting properly browned. Deglaze the pan with a slug of white wine between batches reducing it a little. Transfer the meat into a larger pot. 
 +  - Remove the Star Anise from the caramelized onions, then tip them into the pot containing the meat.  
 +  - Add the remaining wine to the onion pan to deglaze it. Reduce the wine by half & pour it into the pot with the meat.  
 +  - Add the soffritto. 
 +  - With the meat pot over a very low heat, pour in the milk and enough water to cover the mix and simmer very gently without a lid for 6hrs, stirring occasionally. Make sure the mix stays covered with liquid, adding water as necessary. The milk will go chunky but it doesn’t effect the final product. 
 + 
 + 
 +==== Preparing the Tomato Compote ==== 
 +  
 +  - Tomatoes sliced in half seasoned with salt and pepper and a little oregano with a Spanish Onion, a couple of cloves of garlic & a red capsicum, partially dried in an oven at 150 Degrees C for first 20 mins and 120 Degrees C for a further 30 mins, then passed through a sieve.  
 +  - Crush Corriander, Star Anise and cloves, place in a muslin bag and this to a pot with the sauced tomatoes. 
 +  - Add the Tabasco, Fish Sauce, Worcestershire Sauce, Tomato Ketchup and Sherry Vinegar.  
 +  - Drop in the Bouquet Garni and cook over a low heat for 2 hours. 
 + 
 +==== Cooking the Spaghetti Bolognese ==== 
 + 
 +  - Add the tomato compote to the pot with the meat sauce in it & simmer over a very low heat for another 2 hours, stirring occasionally. 
 +  - Before taking the Bolognese sauce off the heat, check the seasoning & add some sherry vinegar (tasting as you go) to balance the richness of the sauce.  
 +  - Add a generous grating of Parmesan (taking care not to add too much as it can make the sauce overly salty & remove the sauce from the heat.  
 +  - Remove the original Bouquet Garni and muslin bag of spices.  
 +  - Add the Tarragon Bouquet Garni 
 +  - Stir in 100 g of unsalted butter & let it stand for 5 minutes. This last step adds richness with the butter & gives the sauce a fresh lift from the Tarragon Bouquet Garni. 
 + 
 + 
 +==== Prepare the Pasta ==== 
 + 
 +  - 100 g of pasta per person in boiling salted water. 
 +  - Strain the pasta return to the pot & add sufficient sauce, giving it a toss through over the heat & then serve.
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