Spaghetti with Bolognese sauce (commonly known as noodles with minced beef sauce) is a very popular dish in the world, but in Italy it is different.
If you love spaghetti with minced beef sauce , whose popular name around the world is spaghetti with Bolognese sauce, you will probably be a little disappointed when you come to Italy. Because there is a fact that menus in restaurants in Italy do not have this dish at all.
The dish does not appear at all in Italy.
Monica Cesarato, a food blogger, tells her story. Her story begins when visiting Venice, the most romantic city in the world, which is also famous for many typical local dishes. She visited a restaurant to experience spaghetti with Bolognese sauce. But the strange thing is that the dish was not on the menu until she asked the waiter. It was then that she learned that the name spaghetti Bolognese sauce actually only exists abroad , and in Italy, this popular dish is called tagliatelle al ragù (or ragù alla Bolognese sauce) and is also a little different. .
In Italy, ragù is a fairly common term for meat sauces that are simmered for hours. Each type of ragù has different recipes and ingredients depending on the region. Thus, ragù alla Bolognese means ragù from the town of Bologna. In Italy, tomato-based Bolognese sauce is only used with tagliatelle, tortellini or gnocchi and especially never with spaghetti, unless the restaurant is serving tourists or on request. because the pastas mentioned above will go well with this sauce.
Minced beef noodle soup is a dish that seems to be the most confusing outside of Italy. When “exported” , tagliatelle al ragù uses the most popular type of noodle, spaghetti, along with some other improvements in taste, so the dish is also different because of that.
And yet, recently, this famous dish has been the hot topic of many debates, when the New York Times published a recipe for “white” Bolognese sauce, ie minced beef sauce but no tomatoes. This recipe attracts a lot of interest from Italians, especially those in Bologna, the origin of the dish. But in the end, they all concluded that to be able to make the best Bolognese sauce, tomatoes are an indispensable ingredient.