As bolognese is a very handy dish to batch cook and freeze I thought I would share various ways you can use it for lunch and dinner. There are many recipes and ways to make Bolognese so feel free to use your own. I have included my syn-free Bolognese recipe below that can be doubled or tripled for batch cooking if you would like to try it.
Ingredients:
- Tinned Tomatoes (500g)
- Passata (500g)
- Lean mince (500g)
- 1 red pepper
- 1 or 2 onions
- 2 or 3 garlic cloves (depending on size ect)
- Pinch of Italian Seasoning
- Pinch of Salt
Method:
- Chop up red pepper, onion and crush the garlic cloves
- Spray frying pan with fry light and put on medium heat, put in mince and toss around until
- all mince is brown
- Put the red pepper, onion and garlic into frying pan and mix with mince for 3-5minutes
- Place above mix into a pot and pour in pasata and tinned tomatoes.
- Put pot on medium heat
- Add salt and seasoning and mix together and cook for 10 minutes
Now that the recipe and method is taken care of, here are some of the fun ways you can have bolognese!
1. Spaghetti Bolognese
2. Pasta Bolognese
3. Lasagne
4. Bolognese on rice
5. Bolognese Baked Potato
6. Bolognese on a bed of lettuce
7. Bolognese stuffed pepper
8. Bolognese and Lettuce Wrap
9. Bolognese Pizza
10. Bolognese Potato Bake