Get to know Ragu better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning.
Ragu meaning
An Italian pasta sauce containing ground meat cooked with sautéed vegetables in tomato sauce or some other kind of liquid.
Using Ragu
- The main meaning on this page is: An Italian pasta sauce containing ground meat cooked with sautéed vegetables in tomato sauce or some other kind of liquid.
- In the example corpus, ragu often appears in combinations such as: ragu with.
Context around Ragu
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 6 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 15 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Ragu
- In this selection, "ragu" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, sausage, mushroom, lentil, alongside, nath and alla stand out and add context to how "ragu" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and beef ragu and and fennel ragu. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "ragu" sits close to words such as aaronson, abai and abass, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with ragu
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Hence, Ragu alla Bolognese translates to sauce from Bologna. (9 words)
A: I’ll boil some pasta and mix some of our ragu with it. (14 words)
Dried pastas are best served in hearty dishes like ragu sauces, soups, and casseroles. (14 words)
The Alley's short rib bucatini, on chef Danny Ganem's rotating menu of Neapolitan-style specials, offers a hearty, meaty sauce of short rib ragu with tomatoes and red wine that works well with the long hollow strands of pasta designed to trap the sauce. (46 words)
In the restaurant, the three-course festive menu (£60 per person) includes Shetland cod, served with vadouvan mussels and tomato tartare, and roast Jerusalem artichoke with mushroom ragu, alongside traditional turkey and all the trimmings. (35 words)
You can get ahead by making the ragu up to three days in advance and keeping it in the fridge; when you reheat it, let it down with a little water or stock, to loosen. (35 words)
Example sentences (15)
Around 7pm on Saturday night, US President was out in Washington on a Valentine's week date-night, lingering over rigatoni with fennel sausage ragu before returning with his wife to the White House.
In the restaurant, the three-course festive menu (£60 per person) includes Shetland cod, served with vadouvan mussels and tomato tartare, and roast Jerusalem artichoke with mushroom ragu, alongside traditional turkey and all the trimmings.
My gluten-free guest had a lovely burrata, followed by the spaghetti lentil ragu, which was so nice she could not even tell it was gluten free.
Other coming menu items include fresh and fruity seasonal mock and cocktails, crushed meatball ragu and wild mushroom anolini pastas and a Naples white pizza.
Securing 241 Yes votes and 25 No votes, Ragu Nath Nepal, 39, from Mendrelgang village is the NC candidate from Mendrelgang gewog.
Also featured in the range is Jamie's twisted on a meat lasagne and roasted vegetarian lasagne, beef bourguignon and beef ragu.
Hence, Ragu alla Bolognese translates to sauce from Bologna.
Stretched across the width of the wall, Rossella squeezes Michael Schumacher as he tucks into one of her staple dishes - tagliatelle with pork ragu sauce.
We opt for the spaghetti, garlic and house-fermented chilli and the strozzapreti, pork and fennel ragu.
A: I’ll boil some pasta and mix some of our ragu with it.
The Alley's short rib bucatini, on chef Danny Ganem's rotating menu of Neapolitan-style specials, offers a hearty, meaty sauce of short rib ragu with tomatoes and red wine that works well with the long hollow strands of pasta designed to trap the sauce.
This sausage and quark ragu tagliatelle recipe from Graham’s The Family Dairy is another easy one to add to your repertoire.
Traditionally a ragu meat sauce will be served with spaghetti, while bolognese is reserved for wider-shaped noodles.
You can get ahead by making the ragu up to three days in advance and keeping it in the fridge; when you reheat it, let it down with a little water or stock, to loosen.
Dried pastas are best served in hearty dishes like ragu sauces, soups, and casseroles.
Common combinations with ragu
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: