Versatile meat ragù
This tasty ragù will feed your family easily for three days. By serving it with pasta, topped with creamy mash (shepherd's pie-style) and with crusty bread, there's no getting bored! If you buy mince in the supermarket, it usually comes in 500g packets. So, it might be easier to use, for example, 1kg of pork mince and 500g of beef mince. Just make sure you use a kilo and a half in total.
Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)
Counts 15 of 16 ingredients — the other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and contribute nothing above, so the real totals are higher.
What these numbers assume — 15 portions →
| Ingredient | Portion assumed | kcal |
|---|---|---|
| Beef | 100g cooked | 250 |
| Pork | 100g cooked | 242 |
| Olive Oil | 1 tbsp (14g) | 119 |
| Red Onion | 1 medium (110g) | 44 |
| Bacon | 1 slice cooked (8g) | 43 |
| Plum | 1 medium (66g) | 30 |
| Carrot | 1 medium (61g) | 25 |
| Wine | 2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml) | 25 |
| Tomato | 1 medium (123g) | 22 |
| Celery | 1 stalk (40g) | 6 |
| Black Pepper | 1 tsp ground (2.3g) | 6 |
| Garlic | 1 clove (3g) | 4 |
| Rosemary | 1 tsp dried (1.2g) | 4 |
| Bay Leaf | 1 leaf (0.6g) | 2 |
| Salt | 1 tsp (6g) | 0 |
| Pumpkin | not in our table | 0 |
Totals for the whole recipe, adding one typical portion per ingredient — listed above. Quantities in the recipe are not counted, so this is a rough guide only — not suitable for medical or dietary planning.
Ingredients
- 4 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
- 6 rashers higher-welfare streaky bacon, sliced
- 2 red onions, peeled and finely chopped
- 2 cloves garlic, peeled and finely chopped
- 2 sticks celery, trimmed and sliced
- 1 butternut squash, peeled and chopped
- 3 carrots, peeled and chopped
- 750 g higher-welfare minced pork
- 750 g minced beef
- 2 wineglasses red wine
- 5 x 400 g tinned plum tomatoes
- 3 sprigs of fresh rosemary
- 1 fresh bay leaf
- sea salt
- freshly ground black pepper