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While the sauce is straight-forward to make, it does require several hours of simmer time, so it is a dish best planned ahead. It also makes a lovely meal to gift to friends and family (it’s my go-to choice for Meal Trains!). This sauce is big on flavor and always, always delivers. We love to serve it for special occasions and holidays. I’ve made Marcella Hazan’s Bolognese countless times over the years. My version stays true to the original, but is more detailed, simpler in ingredient quantities, and more tomato-forward in flavor. This recipe is a light adaptation of Marcella Hazan’s bolognese from her well-known cookbook, Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking. If you’re looking for an incredible pasta sauce to add to your recipe collection, look no further than this one. I plan to try this next time.There is nothing more delicious and comforting than a true classic Italian Bolognese Sauce. I typically don’t like the taste of store-bought beef broth but the soup simmered for so long that none of the off-flavors I dislike were left, but I do think you could absolutely make this with chicken or vegetable broth instead. I made the recipe with a 32-ounce carton of low-sodium beef broth and 2 cups of water.

Swap out the beef broth if you prefer.

It was a little awkward to measure out this exact quantity from a can of whole peeled tomatoes, so I opted to use a 14-ounce can of diced tomatoes instead. Marcella calls for 2/3 cup canned plum tomatoes with their juice. However, I actually think garlic would ruin this soup’s subtleties. I am very much on Team Garlic and would usually tell you to add it with abandon. Just give them a good rinse like you do the other vegetables. Unless your zucchini and green beans are very gritty, there’s no need to soak them.

Skip soaking the zucchini and green beans.

This is minestrone soup in its truest, most Italian form. There’s also an incredible amount of umami richness in each spoonful, thanks to the Parmesan rind. The mountain of vegetables did indeed cook down into a silky marriage of flavors and textures.

In the recipe headnotes, Marcella says it’s “a soup of dense, mellow flavor that recalls no vegetable in particular, but all of them at once.” I didn’t understand this until tasting it. The trattoria smelled like what you imagine the kitchen of an Italian nonna would: aromatic, savory, and full of so many good things you can’t quite place any one specific ingredient. It brought me straight back to the blustery day I arrived in Italy for my graduate program and my father and I stopped into a no-frills trattoria for lunch, weary from the stress of finding an apartment in a foreign country. I had a Proustian moment when I opened the lid to give it a stir. This humble minestrone was transformative. But friends, I wish I could share the scent that wafted from my kitchen over the course of those three hours of simmering.