Slow Cooker Italian Tomato Sauce. This rich and hearty red sauce tastes like it's been cooked for hours, because it has. The secret to rich, naturally sweet, complex flavors is to cook the sauce in the oven, allowing the surface to brown while the sauce slowly concentrates. The resultant sauce is great on pasta, with meatballs, on your chicken parm, or scooped right out of the pan with a spoon on its own.
This really is the best homemade tomato sauce! This slow cooker tomato sauce is rich, hearty and comforting. The perfect meal for busy weeknights or Sunday dinner. You can have Slow Cooker Italian Tomato Sauce using 11 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve that.
Ingredients of Slow Cooker Italian Tomato Sauce
- Prepare 1 (28 oz) of can of No Sodium Tomato Sauce.
- Prepare 1 (28 oz) of can of Tomato Puree.
- It's 1 (6 oz) of can of Tomato Paste.
- You need 1/4 cup of Water.
- It's 2 tsp of Dried Oregano.
- Prepare 2 tsp of Garlic powder or 2-3 Cloves of Garlic, minced.
- You need 1 tsp of Dried Basil.
- Prepare 1 tsp of Dried Parsley.
- Prepare 1-2 tbsp of Sugar.
- You need 2-3 of Bay leaves.
- It's of Ground Black Pepper for taste.
Our sauce makes a great pizza topper and is the base for three delicious variations served with pasta or rice. Stir in diced tomatoes, tomato paste, tomato sauce, chicken broth, red wine, Italian seasoning, basil, salt, and black pepper. This zesty slow-cooker tomato sauce sauce is an easy classic. And the result is so flavorful, it will quickly become a family favorite.
Slow Cooker Italian Tomato Sauce instructions
- Pour the tomato puree and tomato sauce the slow cooker..
- Next, add the tomato paste into the pot, then add the water..
- Put all of the spices, except the bay leaves, into the sauce. Stir it all together..
- Place the bay leaves into the pot, after you stir the sauce..
- Place the cover on top of the slow cooker, set the temperature to low and put the timer to 6-8 hours. At the halfway point, be it 3 or 4 hours, stir the sauce..
- After you stir it, put the lid back on the slow cooker and cook for another 3 to 4 hours..
- Enjoy!.
Enjoy pasta, meatballs, chicken parm, and more! Homemade Italian meatballs and sauce is one of my absolute favorite dinners. There's pretty much nothing better than walking into the kitchen and smelling slow cooker meatballs that have simmered all day. This slow cooker meatball recipe is super easy to make but seriously rich and flavorful. Slow Cooker Chicken in Italian Tomato Sauce.