Meat-Lover's Slow Cooker Spaghetti Sauce
This creates a great, chunky, and very meaty spaghetti sauce. The longer it cooks, the better it tastes!
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- Serves: 8 persons
Ingredients
- 2tablespoons olive oil
- 2small onions, chopped
- ¼pound bulk Italian sausage
- 1pound ground beef
- 1teaspoon dried Italian herb seasoning
- 1teaspoon garlic powder
- ½teaspoon dried marjoram
- 1(29 ounce) can tomato sauce
- 1(6 ounce) can tomato paste
- 1(14.5 ounce) can Italian-style diced tomatoes
- 1(14.5 ounce) can Italian-style stewed tomatoes
- ¼teaspoon dried thyme leaves
- ¼teaspoon dried basil
- ½teaspoon dried oregano
- 2teaspoons garlic powder
- 1tablespoon white sugar
Instructions
Step 1
Heat olive oil in a skillet over medium heat; cook and stir onions and Italian sausage until the sausage is browned, about 10 minutes. Transfer the sausage and onions to a slow cooker. In the same skillet, cook and stir the ground beef, Italian seasoning, 1 teaspoon of garlic powder, and marjoram, breaking the meat up as it cooks, until the meat is browned, about 10 minutes. Transfer the ground beef into the slow cooker.Step 2
Stir in the tomato sauce, tomato paste, diced tomatoes, stewed tomatoes, thyme, basil, oregano, and 2 teaspoons of garlic powder. Set the cooker on Low, and cook the sauce for 8 hours. About 15 minutes before serving, stir in the sugar. Serve hot.