1.
meat sauce; Bolognese-style tomato and ground meat sauce
A tomato-based sauce made with ground meat and onions, served mainly over spaghetti. In Japan it is one of the standard pasta sauces, sold ready-made in cans and retort pouches.
From English "meat sauce." On menus and in everyday talk it often names the whole dish, spaghetti with meat sauce, as well as the sauce itself.
Common collocations
- ミートソースのスパゲッティ: spaghetti with meat sauce
- ミートソースを煮込む: to simmer meat sauce
- 手作りのミートソース: homemade meat sauce
- ミートソース缶: canned meat sauce
Similar words
- ボロネーゼ: Bolognese — the Italian name, used for restaurant-style versions
- ナポリタン: Japanese-style ketchup spaghetti — sweeter, made with ketchup rather than a simmered tomato sauce