Bolognese Sauce Recipe Mary Berry

Cooked up a storm when making one of the nation’s favourite dishes this week – by adding double cream and white wine to spaghetti bolognese.

Traditionally, the recipe has always included red instead of white wine – but Mary told her 2.2million-strong audience on BBC2’s Mary Berry Everyday: “I really prefer to add white”.

She then suggested another apparent cooking crime by saying: “After an hour in the oven my secret is to make it even richer by adding double cream.”

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But the former Great British Bake Off’s controversial culinary choices aren’t the only odd options you can add to your spag bol.

In 1982, the Italian Academy of Cooking came up with an official recipe that limited its ingredients to beef, pancetta, onions, carrots, celery, tomato paste and wine. And it turns out - despite fans’ despair - Mary was right all along, the correct wine to use is, in fact, white...

But whether you’re convinced on red or white wine, a few other unexpected extras have found themselves creeping into our favourite chefs’ ragu recipes over the years.

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Sainsbury ’s upset Twitter cooks when it suggested in a recipe that a sprinkling of instant coffee could perk up your dish.

The supermarket said coffee could add “more of a depth of flavour than a strong coffee taste” – but some food traditionalists called it a culinary crime.

It brings “big flavour to a simple dish”, Hellman’s, who say it’s best to stir it in just after you’ve added your stock, insist.

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Forget red wine (or white, according to Berry) – Guinness works just as well, according to one BBC Good Food recipe reader.

The All Recipe website even suggests a teaspoon of green pesto works just as well if mixed in with your sauce as it’s reducing.

Nigella Lawson is famous for pairing her favourite spaghetti dish with the controversial ingredient, saying it “offers saltiness and savouriness the way a stock cube might”.

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Sainsbury’s says the little canned or jarred fish should be added to your sauce as it’s reducing down “creating a lovely extra flavour dimension”.

They might bring back memories of vile school dinners – but they’re cheap to buy and produce a flavourful dish even the kids will enjoy, the chefs insist.

Jack says: “I’ve learned to avoid school dinner liver by either cooking it for less than a minute, or slowly casseroling it for at least 40 – anything in between seems terrifying.”

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While some people find the idea of combining sweet and savoury gag-inducing, others can’t get enough of fruit in their hot meals.

Italian chef Antonio Carluccio claimed the British are ruining bolognese by putting herbs in it, so he won’t be very pleased with Berry’s recipe including thyme, bay leaves and basil.

Several food blogging websites suggest they should be added alongside the traditional ragu sauce ingredients of tomatoes and passata to add an extra bitter kick.

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“It does need more a flavour injection, so do taste your tomato sauce for seasoning and adjust it accordingly, ” the Sainsbury’s website says.

If you’re going to opt for turkey, try slow-cooking it for extra flavour depth and sprinkle the finished dish with a few fried sage leaves.

Heston Blumenthal uses the store cupboard staple in his sauce – typically alongside a range of other adventurous ingredients, including Tabasco, fish sauce, Worcestershire sauce and sherry vinegar.

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Police divers return to river where Nicola Bulley's body was found to investigate – almost two months after missing mum was discovered three weeks after she vanishedNicola BulleyMary cooked up a bit of a twitter storm with her highly controversial bolognese recipe. She mixes white wine rather than red wine and adds double cream.

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