Beef Bolognese Sauce

"When you’re working with a dish as fundamental to its home cuisine as ragu alla Bolognese is to Italian cooking, it’s all the more important to get everything right. So, when we set out to bring a fresh Beef Bolognese into the refrigerators of our West Coast stores, we knew we had to do something special. That’s why Trader Joe’s Beef Bolognese Sauce comes to us from a specialty supplier who primarily works with restaurants, rather than grocery stores, to provide them batches of full-flavored pasta sauces. And indeed, upon warming up some of this Beef Bolognese and serving it over a plate of freshly cooked pasta, you’ll swear you’d picked it up from a local trattoria. That’s because this supplier uses a hearty, homey recipe that includes San Marzano tomatoes, well-seasoned ground beef, finely diced mirepoix, and rich red wine, along with savory and aromatic herbs like rosemary, thyme, and bay leaf. Notably absent from its list of ingredients is sugar. The resulting ragu is ideal for enjoying with your favorite pasta as a quick and almost unbelievably effortless dinner. Of course, that’s just one way you can use it. We’re also big on using this Bolognese as time-saving ingredient in everything from lasagna, moussaka, and shepherds pie, to baked ziti and stuffed bell peppers, or as a topping for a baked potato."