Crock Pot Spaghetti Sauce
Ready In: 10 hrs 20 mins
Serves: 4-6
Ingredients
- 4 tablespoons cooking oil, divided
- 1 small onion, finely chopped
- 1 (15 1/2ounce) can tomato sauce
- 1 1⁄2 cups water
- 1⁄2 teaspoon pepper
- 1⁄2 teaspoon red pepper (optional)
- 1 lb ground beef
- 1 (29 ounce) can tomato puree
- 1 (6 ounce) can tomato paste
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1⁄2 teaspoon oregano
- 2 lbs sausage (Italian links or country style)
- 1⁄4-1⁄2 cup sugar, to taste (optional)
Directions
- Brown ground beef in 2 tablespoons hot oil in frying pan.
- When almost browned, add onion and continue browning until onion is tender. Pour meat and onion into crock pot.
- Add puree, sauce, paste, water, salt, pepper and oregano and set dial on low setting.
- Cut 2 pounds sausage into pieces and brown in remaining 2 tablespoons oil. When brown, place sausages in sauce in crock pot.
- Continue cooking for 12 hours.
- If you like your sauce sweeter, you could add 1/4 to 1/2 cup sugar to this.
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