length to produce a thick sauce. Ragù alla bolognese is customarily used to dress [[tagliatelle]] al ragù and to prepare lasagne]] alla bologne.

Outside Italy, the phrase "Bolognese sauce" is often used to refer to a tomato-based sauce to which minced meat has been added; such sauces typically bear little resemblance to Italian ragù alla bolognese, being more similar in fact to ragù alla napoletana from the tomato-rich south of the country. Although in Italy ragù