Ragù alla napoletana

Meat Sauce from Naples

Preparation info
  • Serves

    6

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Italian Slow and Savory

By Joyce Goldstein

Published 2004

  • About

While the ragù from Bologna has meat and barely any tomato, this version from Naples is tomato sauce flavored with only a little meat. Most Neapolitans cook the meat in the sauce, remove it, and serve it after the pasta. But if you want the meat in the sauce, you can start with chopped meat, or you can chop the meat after it has been cooked and return it to the sauce as many Italian Americ