Slow Cooker Tomato Meat Sauce
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Easy to make Slow Cooker Tomato Meat Sauce is an easy 2 step process and requires little hands-on time!
Slow Cooker Tomato Meat Sauce
We recently had guests for a week that ended in an Engagement party and a tailgating football event the next day. Although I love entertaining enough is enough it can be a lot of work. After that week, I wanted easy food to throw together while I got my life house back in order.
I like to keep this meat sauce cooked and ready in the refrigerator. It’s great for spaghetti, calzones, lasagna, pizza and dipping breadsticks. I like to add the beef and let it cook in the slow cooker, but you can leave the meat out especially if you don’t have immediate plans to use this tomato sauce.
Another basic sauce I make all the time is Simple Homemade Marinara Sauce.
Homemade Gift Ideas
Slow Cooker Tomato Meat Sauce is also great as a gift for teachers, neighbors, party hosts, or just a little happy for a friend. When I package it for gifts, I do not add the meat. Just follow the instructions, omitting the beef. Saute the onions in 2 T vegetable oil instead of the beef drippings. Put the tomato sauce in a quart or pint jar, and tie pretty raffia around it. The sauce makes a great gift or package it with pasta, a small basil plant, garlic bulbs, and your favorite spaghetti or lasagna recipe!
Slow Cooker Tomato Meat Sauce Ingredients
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- 90% lean ground beef. Omit if making sauce for a gift
- tomatoes, crushed
- onion
- crushed garlic minced
- oregano
- bay leaves, fresh
- sundried tomatoes chopped
- salt
- pepper
- red pepper
- roasted red pepper
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Slow Cooker Tomato Meat Sauce
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Ingredients
- 1 lb lean ground beef omit if making sauce for a gift
- 2 (28 oz cans) tomatoes crushed
- 1 medium white onion approx 1 cup
- 1 Tablespoon garlic clove minced
- 1 teaspoon crushed dried oregano
- 3 bay leaves fresh
- 1 Tablespoon sun dried tomatoes chopped
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon black pepper
- 1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
- 1/4 cup roasted red peppers
Instructions
- Turn slow cooker on 250 degrees.
- I rough chopped my onion because I was trying to see how fast I could get all the ingredients in the slow cooker. Chop them small if you prefer.
- Cook onion and ground beef in a skillet on medium high heat until no longer pink. I didn’t have to drain any fat off since my meat was lean.
- While onions and beef are cooking, add remaining ingredients to slow cooker – tomatoes, garlic, oregano, bay leaves, sundried tomatoes, salt, pepper, red pepper, and roasted red pepper.
- Add beef and onions and stir. Place lid on and allow to cook on 200-250 degrees for 4 hours.
- Remove bay leaves and use in recipe of your choice
Nutrition
Nutritional information given is an automatic calculation and can vary based on the exact products you use and changes you make to the recipe. If these numbers are important to you, I recommend calculating them yourself.
I LOVE MEAT SAUCE!! When my Mom would make spaghetti sauce, I ate it by the bowl full. Also, love slow cooker recipes! Pinning this to try! Thanks!!
Looks wonderful! Thanks for sharing at the Twirl & Take a Bow Party! Hope to see you at the party Tuesday! Have a great week!