noun
meat sauce; Bolognese sauce
A tomato-based sauce with ground meat, commonly used in pasta dishes. In Japanese cuisine, it often refers to the sauce used in spaghetti Bolognese or similar Western-style dishes.
今夜はミートソースのスパゲッティにしよう。
Let's have spaghetti with meat sauce tonight.
このミートソースはじっくり煮込んであって美味しい。
This meat sauce is delicious because it's been simmered slowly.
Variant with interpunct; less common but seen in some contexts.
ボロネーゼ specifically refers to authentic Italian Bolognese sauce, while ミートソース is a broader term for any meat-based pasta sauce, often the Japanese-style adaptation.
Loanword from English 'meat sauce'.