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1 large carrot
2 brown onions
2 sticks celery
4 cloves garlic
500g pork mince
500g beef mince
12 vine ripened tomatoes (vine on)
1 jar tomato paste (300ml)
2 star anise
2 bay leaves
1 sprig of rosemary
3 sprig's thyme
1/2 bottle merlot
Finely dice onion, carrot and celery. Heat heavy based pot with olive oil and cook onion, carrot and celery on a low heat for 10 minutes, stirring constantly.
Mince garlic, add to pot and cook for 3 minutes, stirring constantly.
Remove vegetables from pot and place aside in large bowl.
Return pot to heat and turn up to full, add more oil and when smoking, add pork mince and salt
fry pork mince until cooked through.
Remove pork mince and add to bowl with vegetables.
Repeat process with beef mince.
Remove beef mince and add to bowl with pork/vegetables.
Return pot to burner, allow to heat then add red wine and tomato paste*. Once red wine has boiled, add contents of bowl back into pot and bring to boil.
While this is heating, roughly chop the tomatoes and add to pot.
Into a clean muslin or chux cloth add bay leaves, star anise, thyme, rosemary, black peppercorns and the green tomato vines as well as any of the vegetable offcuts remaining. tie this off and add to pot.
Simmer on the lowest possible heat for 90 minutes with a tight fitting lid on.
Remove lid and muslin cloth, and cook until desired consistency is reached.
Add salt and pepper to taste
*Pour some of the wine into the bottle of tomato paste and shake it up to get the paste remnants.