Name: Bolognese à la Robert Carrier
Ingredients: 4 tbsps extra virgin olive oil; 2 large carrots, peeled, cut in four length ways and finely chopped; 1 vegetable peeler strip of lemon peel; 1 kg minced beef (buy the best you can buy, visit your butcher); 2 bay leaves, dried or pinched from someone’s garden; 6 slices of smoked streaky bacon, thinly sliced; 2 large onions, finely chopped; 2 hefty celery stalks, cut in four lengthways and finely chopped; 1 good pinch of ground nutmeg; 1 litre (1½ stock cubes will do) beef stock; 2 x 140 g tins of tomato purée

Preparation info

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Max’s Sandwich Book

By Max Halley and Ben Benton

Published 2018

About

This is the simplest most delicious bolognese recipe there is. It will feed four people and leave enough for major leftover action. You can freeze some, you can lasagne some, you can whack it in sarnies or have it on toast with a fried egg, hell, my Dad sometimes even makes risotto with it. This recipe belongs to Robert Carrier and sir, we thank you for it (he’s dead).