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    Home » Pasta

    Spicy Bolognese

    Published: Feb 9, 2022 · Modified: Sep 16, 2023 by Zimmy · This post may contain Amazon and other affiliate links · Leave a Comment

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    Spicy Bolognese. For a meal requiring little preparation, you will be amazed how much flavour is developed in a relatively short time!

    A top down image of a pan filled with pappardelle noodles and a bolognese sauce.

    This Bolognese inspired sauce is the perfect way to spice things up with your special someone. The hot Italian sausages and crushed chilies build on the flavours of the classic Bolognese and bring joy to your taste buds!

    Ingredients

    • Extra-virgin olive oil
    • Onion 
    • Garlic
    • Celery stalk 
    • Carrot 
    • Hot Italian sausages
    • Hot chili peppers in oil
    • Tomato paste
    • Red wine
    • Crushed tomatoes 
    • Flat-leaf Italian parsley 
    • Fresh basil
    • Salt and pepper
    • Pappardelle noodles
    • Parmesan

    See recipe card for quantities.

    Instructions

    In a 3.5-quart sauté pan warm the olive oil over medium heat. Add the onions and garlic and sauté until the onions are soft, 6-8 minutes. Add the celery and carrot and sauté for 5 minutes more.

    Onions, garlic, carrots and celery getting sautéed.

    Raise heat to medium-high and add the sausage meat. Cook, stirring frequently and breaking up the sausage into small pieces until meat is browned, about 8-10 minutes.

    Add sausage meat into the pan.
    Cook, stirring frequently and breaking up the sausage into small pieces until meat is browned.

    Add in the crushed hot chili peppers and tomato paste, stir to combine, then cook for 1 minute. Next, add the red wine and scrape off any burnt bits from the bottom of the pan, cook until most of the wine has evaporated, 3-4 minutes.

    Add the tomatoes, parsley, and basil, then cook over medium-low heat until the sauce thickens, 25-30 minutes. Taste and season with salt and pepper if required.

    Add the tomatoes, parsley, and basil into the pan

    While the sauce reduces, cook the pappardelle, per the package directions.

    Add the cooked pappardelle into the Bolognese pan, top with the parmesan and mix to combine.

    Add the cooked pappardelle into the Bolognese sauce.

    Garnish with chopped basil and more Parmesan.

    A copper pan filled with a bolognese pasta with a rose beside the pan.

    Equipment

    This Spicy Bolognese recipe was made (and served) in the Hestan 3.5-Quart CopperBond Induction Sauteuse, 6-Quart CopperBond Induction Stock Pot and was cooked on the Hestan Dual Fuel Range.

    Proud Hestan Culinary and Hestan Ambassador. Opinions in this post are my own.

    Two shiny copper pots on a range.
    Ingredients and copper pots on the stove ready to go.

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    If you get the chance to try this recipe, please drop back and leave us a comment and rating. We would love to know what you think.

    Cheers! James & Elaine

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    A top down image of a pan filled with pappardelle noodles and a bolognese sauce.

    Spicy Bolognese

    This Bolognese inspired sauce is the perfect way to spice things up with your special someone. The hot Italian sausages and crushed chilies build on the flavours of the classic Bolognese and bring joy to your tastebuds. For a meal requiring little preparation, you will be amazed how much flavour is developed in a relatively short time!
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    Prep Time 10 minutes mins
    Cook Time 50 minutes mins
    Total Time 1 hour hr
    Course Dinner, Main Course
    Cuisine Italian
    Servings 2 -3 People

    Ingredients
      

    • 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
    • ½ medium onion diced
    • 1 garlic clove peeled coarsely chopped
    • 1 small celery stalk coarsely chopped
    • 1 small carrot coarsely chopped
    • 2 hot Italian sausages casing removed (about 9 ounces total)
    • 1 tablespoon crushed hot chili peppers in oil
    • 1 tablespoon tomato paste
    • ½ cup red wine
    • 1 can crushed tomatoes 14 -ounces
    • 2 tablespoons flat-leaf Italian parsley chopped
    • 2 tablespoons fresh basil leaves chopped (plus more for garnish)
    • Salt and freshly ground black pepper
    • 9 ounces of dry pappardelle noodles
    • ⅓ cup freshly grated Parmesan

    Instructions
     

    • In a 3.5-quart sauté pan warm the olive oil over medium heat. Add the onions and garlic and sauté until the onions are soft, 6-8 minutes. Add the celery and carrot and sauté for 5 minutes more.
    • Raise heat to medium-high and add the sausage meat. Cook, stirring frequently and breaking up the sausage into small pieces until meat is browned, about 8-10 minutes.
    • Add in the crushed hot chili peppers and tomato paste, stir to combine, then cook for 1 minute. Add the red wine and scrape off any burnt bits from the bottom of the pan, cook until most of the wine has evaporated, 3-4 minutes.
    • Add the tomatoes, parsley, and basil, then cook over medium-low heat until the sauce thickens, 25-30 minutes. Taste and season with salt and pepper if required.
    • While the sauce reduces, cook the pappardelle, per the package directions.
    • Add the cooked pappardelle into the Bolognese pan, top with the parmesan and mix to combine.
    • Garnish with chopped basil and more parmesan.
    Keyword bolognese easy recipe, easy spicy pasta recipes, spicy bolognese, spicy bolognese recipes, spicy bolognese sauce
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