Italian Spaghetti Sauce

Momma Jenny's Note:

Here's a great recipe from my sister-in-law. She makes it for us everytime we go up to visit. It is so great to come in from a full day of sight-seeing to a house that smells so good! Now when I make it I freeze the extra for easy leftovers.

• Total Time: 8 hrs 20 mins
• Prep Time: 20 mins
• Cook Time: 8 hrs

Ingredients:

Servings: 8

• 2 lbs sausage or 2 lbs ground beef
• 3 medium onions, chopped (about 2 1/4 cups)
• 2 cups sliced mushrooms
• 6 garlic cloves, minced
• 2 (14 1/2 ounce) cans diced tomatoes, undrained
• 1 (29 ounce) can tomato sauce
• 1 (12 ounce) can tomato paste
• 2 tablespoons dried basil
• 1 tablespoon dried oregano
• 1 tablespoon sugar
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes

Directions:

1. Cook sausage, onions, mushrooms, and garlic in skillet over medium heat for 10 minutes. Drain. Transfer to slow cooker.
2. Stir in remaining ingredients.
3. Cover. Cook on Low 8-9 hours.

Reviews

[ratherbeswimmin']

Excellent spaghetti sauce. I used 1 1/2 lb ground beef and 1/2 pound Italian sausage. Cooked 6 hours in my slow cooker. Wonderful aroma and flavor. Love the mushrooms. Thanks for sharing this. Will make again, for sure.

[Boomette]

Wonderful spaghetti sauce. I chopped the veggies the night earlier. Then in the morning, browned the beef and veggies and poured everything in the crock-pot. When we came back it was smelling great. Thanks nennny :) Made for cookbook tag game

[Tea Jenny]

Yummy, this was soooo good, I made mine with a bit of a mixture. First I cut the recipe by half and to make up the amount of meat I used some sausage, minced pork and minced beef, everything else was as the recipe required and I cooked it on low in my slow cooker for 8 hours, so when I got in from work I just had to cook my pasta we had linguine. My herbs were grown in my garden in the summer and dried. The balance was just right with all the flavours and you could taste them all I think it's the long slow cooking that does it. Thank you for posting. Made for PAC Spring 2011.