The Actual Olive Garden Bolognese Sauce Recipe (Spaghetti Sauce)

"This is the actual Olive Garden bolognese (spaghetti sauce) recipe that I got from the Olive Garden website. Please don't leave a feedback saying how this recipe, "Is soooo much better than Olive Garden's", or how it is, "Close to Olive Garden's, but no cigar". It IS Olive Garden's recipe. Now we just have to figure out how they make their breadsticks! I like to throw the cooked veggies in the blender so my son doesn't realize that they're in there! ;)"
 
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Ready In:
1hr 45mins
Ingredients:
12
Serves:
4
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ingredients

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directions

  • Heat oil in a large pan. Add celery, carrot, onion, and garlic and cook about 5 minutes.
  • Add meat and cook 10 minutes over medium heat, stirring occasionally.
  • Deglaze pan with wine, let it reduce.
  • Add tomatoes and remaining ingredients and stir, simmer for about 1 hour.
  • Serve over fresh, hot pasta.

Questions & Replies

  1. what kind of red wine for bolognese sauce
     
  2. When it says to deglaze the pan with wine, do I dump everything in the pan (veggies and meat) into another bowl to do this then add it back when the wine has reduced? or do I had the wine to the meat/veggie mixture and let it cook down? Sorry I am a newbie at this :)
     
  3. When it says 1 celery is that one stick off the stalk? Same with carrot? Do you use ground Italian sausage or the linked skinned and chopped finely?
     
  4. This is my first time attempting to make a home made spaghetti sauce for my wife. What is meant by deglazing the pan with wine and how long should I let it reduce? Thank you, Tom F.
     
  5. Silly question..What kind of red wine ?
     
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Reviews

  1. Excellent
     
  2. I can't say that I have ever had the Bolognese Sauce at Olive Garden, but I have had many different other ones. This is really good; my eldest daughter told me it is her favorite sauce I make....sadly, even better than my 4th generation Italian Spaghetti Sauce (Sunday Gravy) passed down from my Great-Great Grandmother Maria Concetta Scalzo who came to the US from Calabria. I think she is wrong by the way :) But all the same, this is a good sauce. I used 1 pound of Italian sausage instead of mixing the two different meats and it turned out good. I kept everything else the same.
     
  3. When you don't follow the recipes exactly, of course it will not be the same. I make this recipe a lot and I follow the recipe as written by mojoloh. It is beyond delicious! It is outstanding. This is the 'Actual Olive Garden Bolognese Sauce Recipe'.
     
  4. My whole family loves this sauce - it’s easy to make and saves me money on Olive Garden takeout!
     
  5. I made exactly as the recipe from the Olive Garden website, using 16 ounces of crushed tomatoes, not 28 ounces. It is not the worst bolognese sauce I have ever made but it was not good. It was watery and bland. I have never had the bolognese sauce at Olive Garden, so this may very well be an exact replica, but there are much better bolognese sauce recipes out there.
     
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Tweaks

  1. used 2.5 ounces of cewlery onion and carrots
     

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