Authentic bolognese sauce with homemade pappardelle

Traditional Bolognese sauce with homemade Pappardelle
Full recipe on my website, here's the link https://www.unclemattscookerylessons....Show more

There are many people who believe that Bolognese sauce isn't even a thing, 'it's a rugu isn't it? Bolognese is just a convenient name used outside of Italy, right?' I thought that as well until I discovered a great Youtube channel called Vincenzo's plate, Vincenzo cooks all things Italian but even better he makes videos where he brings in experts from the exact region of the dish to explain what is authentic or not. So I am very - no - reasonably- no a bit confident that the recipe I used in this video is the real deal.

If this video gets enough views there is bound to be outraged people saying that there Mama or Nona did it differently and to them they have the authentic recipe, but the house next door adds a little garlic or herbs or stock or however many ingredients they prefer.

Bolognese sauce comes surprisingly from Bologna from the 18th Century, ragout is a French term used for chopped meat braised with vegetables and in this case the Italians borrowed from the French. No doubt they simplified it though as the French have a tendency to over complicate recipes (I should know I trained in enough French restaurants).

The combination of Bolognese sauce with spaghetti is very popular in the UK to the point where some people will not realise that it isn't British, according to the purists Spaghetti should not be used to accompany Bolognese sauce for err reasons? But is probably the result of Bolognese being such a well known Italian sauce and spaghetti being the most well known pasta.

In this video I also make pappardelle from scratch hopefully to give confidence to viewers to a go at making their own.