Meaty, slow-cooked tomato sauce, ideal with lasagne, raviloi, and other fresh pasta.
Ragú (with a ú) is a brand of Italian-style sauce brand first sold in 1946—one of many consumer brands in the portfolio of Unilever, an Anglo-Dutch food giant. The company is most well known for selling jar packaged pasta sauce, but other products include pizza sauce. Ragù (with a ù) is an Italian term for a meat based sauce. The word derives from the the French ragoûter (to revive the taste). Typical Italian ragù include the ragù bolognese (sometimes known as Bolognese sauce) and the Neapolitan ragù. A ragù is usually made by adding meat to a soffritto (a partially-fried mixture of chopped onions, celery, carrots, seasonings, etc.) and then simmering it for a long time with tomato sauce. (A soffritto is similar to the French concept of the mirepoix.) Outside Italy, ragù are very popular in Sweden, Greece, Japan, and the United States.