Michelin-starred chef shares the secret ingredient for a perfect bolognese

Paul Foster, who owns and runs the Michelin-starred Salt successful Stratford Upon Avon, has shared his go-to look for spaghetti bolognese - and it's not what you mightiness expect

Spaghetti bolognese is simply a steadfast favourite successful galore UK homes, acknowledgment to its delicious sensation and casual preparation.

However, Michelin-starred cook Paul Foster claims we've each been missing a crucial ingredient - milk. The proprietor of the highly praised Salt edifice successful Stratford Upon Avon has present shared his concealed look for the Italian classic.

In a video connected his societal media, helium asked his followers: "Are you adding beverage to your bolognese? If not, wherefore not? If you privation the champion results based connected authenticity, past travel my method – [this is] however to navigator bolognese properly." Paul, who tin beryllium recovered connected TikTok astatine @paulfosterchef, delighted his followers by sharing his step-by-step recipe.

"This look is based connected my culinary knowledge, my nostalgia and besides my experiences with the archetypal recipes successful Bologna [where the crockery originated]." He explains that the basal of the crockery is crucial, starting with a 'sofrito', which consists of finely diced onions, celery and peeled carrot. These are acceptable aside, portion thyme is chopped and ail grated.

All these ingredients are past added to a cookware of blistery olive lipid with a generous pinch of salt. Start by mildly cooking the onions, celery and carrots for astir 3 to 4 minutes without immoderate colour. Then adhd successful the chopped thyme and crushed ail and navigator that for astir 2 minutes, again with nary colour.

Remove and support to the side. In the aforesaid cookware you've conscionable used, adhd adjacent amounts of minced beef and minced pork and navigator connected a precocious vigor portion continuously stirring.

Once the nutrient is browned, adhd immoderate full-bodied reddish vino and fto the substance reduce. Stir successful immoderate herb puree, earlier adding the rootlike substance from earlier, arsenic good arsenic immoderate truly bully prime tinned tomatoes and chickenhearted stock.

Paul says: "It's going to beryllium rather bedewed truthful you privation to navigator this mildly for astir 3 hours to trim it and ore it truthful it becomes heavy and glossy."

The adjacent portion of the look is wherever Paul adds his ain unsocial twist. "Then successful with the milk," helium says. "This gives it that creaminess without adding pick – honestly, this is simply a crippled changer. Stir that successful for a portion and past cheque it for seasoning."