A Classic Meat Sauce For Pasta

• 500 grams Combined ground beef and pork
• 1 Onion
• 1 Celery (if you have it)
• 1/2 Carrots (if you have any)
• 1 clove Garlic
• 30 grams Butter
• 1 can Canned tomatoes
• 2 tsp Consomme stock granules
• 50 grams Honey
• 3 leaves Bay leaves
• 5 Dried shiitake mushrooms
• 300 ml Water
• 100 ml Red wine
• 100 ml Tomato ketchup
• 2 tbsp Tonkatsu sauce
• 2 tbsp Soy sauce
• 1 Salt and pepper
• 1 Spices

1. Re-hydrate the dried shiitake mushrooms in water.
2. Finely chop the vegetables.
3. Finely chop the re-hydrated shiitake mushrooms.
4. Put the butter and garlic in a pot, add the meat, and stir-fry.
5. Add the vegetables and continue stir-frying until wilted.
6. Add the red wine, the crushed canned tomatoes, the re-hydrated shiitake mushrooms and the liquid from re-hydrating, and bring to a boil.
7. Remove the scum.
8. Add the bay leaves, honey (please see Step 8 for a note), and consomme stock granules and simmer over medium heat.
9. When the moisture is mostly evaporated, add the ketchup, sauce, and soy sauce and simmer over medium heat.
10. When the moisture has evaporated, check the taste and adjust as necessary with salt, pepper, and spices.
11. Once it's like this, it's ready.
12. Note: The sauce has a strong sweet and salty flavor, but if you would like a delicately sweet sauce, use 30 g of honey (2 tablespoons), 1 tablespoon each of tonkatsu sauce and soy sauce, and check the taste.
13. This makes a lot, so you can make a half portion or put the remaining sauce in a Ziploc bag and store in the freezer.
14. Classic meat sauce spaghetti is always a hit.
15. In my home, we coat the boiled noodles in butter and pepper.
16. This is meat sauce with eggplant and asparagus cooked in an oven.
17. I baked some bread with meat sauce in it.
18. The eggs and cheese give it a mild flavor.
19. It's really delicious.

onion, celery, carrots, clove garlic, butter, tomatoes, granules, honey, bay leaves, shiitake mushrooms, water, red wine, tomato ketchup, tonkatsu sauce, soy sauce, salt

Taken from cookpad.com/us/recipes/152932-a-classic-meat-sauce-for-pasta (may not work)