I wanted to share my Slow Cooker Spaghetti Sauce From Scratch recipe. I love to cook from scratch when I can. Especially now that we have gone completely sugar/fructose free, it makes it easier if wecook from scratch. Just know that nothing I have used including the spices have any added sugar or fructose.
I know a lot of people like to use sauces that you can buy in the store and yes they are convenient, but they are too sweet for me and I like it chunky with veggies, so here’s my recipe.
Slow Cooker Spaghetti Sauce From Scratch
Ingredients Needed:
1 can Diced, Roasted, or Whole Stewed Tomatoes 2 can tomato paste PLUS 2 cans warm water 2 cans tomato sauce 2 lbs Ground Hamburger Meat or Ground Turkey 2 Bell Peppers chopped 2 Medium Onions chopped 3 Celery Stalks chopped 1/2 cup chopped mushrooms 2 tbsp. Garlic Oregano Salt Pepper Italian Seasonings Garlic Salt Garlic Powder Onion Powder
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As I mentioned in my Crock Pot Pot Roast recipe, I normally cook things in the Crock Pot that Mom cooked on the stove. She had to watch over it all day to keep it from sticking and burning, and I can put it in the Crock pot and walk away.
Instructions:
I always start with tomato paste, tomato sauce and either diced, roasted or whole stewed tomatoes. If I use whole stewed tomatoes I will put them in the Slow Cooker first and let them cook down a little before adding the other sauces and pastes.
Once the tomatoes have cooked down (or, if I used diced or roasted tomatoes, I just add them all at once), add the tomato sauces, tomato pastes, and the water and stir. Cook on high while you are preparing the rest of the ingredients.
Then I chop up all of the veggies and sauté them in olive oil on medium heat until the onions begin to look transparent, but not brown.
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I add all of the veggies to the sauce in the slow cooker and then I brown the meat. Once the meat is nice and brown, I drain it and add it to the sauce, and then I add my spices.
Then I let it cook covered for about 4-5 hours or less depending on the time I have. I serve it either over regular pasta or over zucchini pasta.
I love my zucchini pasta maker – it makes it quick and easy and much healthier and low carb! I normally microwave them for about a minute after I cut them just to make them soft.
If you're looking for a simple yet delicious slow cooker spaghetti sauce, pasta sauce, low carb sauce, you found it!
Ingredients
1 can Diced, Roasted, or Whole Stewed Tomatoes 2 can tomato paste PLUS 2 cans warm water
2 cans tomato sauce
2 lbs Ground Hamburger Meat or Ground Turkey
2 Bell Peppers chopped
2 Medium Onions chopped
3 Celery Stalks chopped
1/2 cup chopped mushrooms
2 tbsp. Garlic
Oregano
Salt
Pepper
Italian Seasonings
Garlic Salt
Garlic Powder
Onion Powder
Instructions
I always start with tomato paste, tomato sauce, and either diced, roasted, or whole-stewed tomatoes. If I use whole stewed tomatoes, I will first put them in the Slow Cooker and let them cook down a little before adding the other sauces and pastes.
Once the tomatoes have cooked down (or if I used diced or roasted tomatoes, I add them all at once), add the tomato sauces, tomato pastes, and water and stir. Cook on high while you are preparing the rest of the ingredients.
Then I chop up all of the veggies and sauté them in olive oil on medium heat until the onions begin to look transparent but not brown.
I add all the veggies to the sauce in the slow cooker and then brown the meat. Once the meat is nice and brown, I drain it and add it to the sauce, and then I add my spices.
Then I let it cook covered for about 4-5 hours or less, depending on the time I have. I serve it either over regular pasta or over zucchini pasta.
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Make a blonde roux, flour and fat cooked together into a paste, add the liquid and whisk it in. There. That's gravy. Alternatively pour the liquid into a pot on the stove and set it to simmer for a long time, reducing it down until it's thicker.
What is in your spaghetti sauce that makes it taste so deliciously authentic? Tomatoes (canned or fresh), garlic, onions, olive oil, herbs (such as basil and oregano), and sometimes red wine. The flavors develop through slow cooking, which allows the ingredients to meld together and create a rich and savory taste.
Texture-wise, fat adds a rich, mouth-coating feel to a sauce, both when it's broken out of the sauce on its own, and when it is emulsified with the sauce's liquid phase, making the whole thing creamier. Add a bit of butter in there as well.
This could happen when you add too much pasta water into your sauce, and you accidentally drown the thick sauce with the starchy water (happens to the best of us). I find that this happens to me most often when I'm making quick sauces, like a meat sauce or light marinara that hasn't had the time to simmer.
How long can I simmer tomato sauce for? Simmering can take as long as you want; and the longer something simmers, the more flavor it will have. However, simmering also evaporates the liquid in the pot, so you will need to check to see if more water (or whatever liquid you are using) needs to be added.
Tomatoes naturally contain lots of water, so cooking any tomato sauce for a long period of time will help eliminate some of the water content. The water will slowly but surely evaporate, leaving behind a thickened, full-bodied sauce with lots of flavor.
A slurry is a mixture of flour and water, whisked together until smooth and added towards the end of cooking; it's a super-simple way to thicken any soup. For slow cooker soups, add your slurry with at least 30 minutes of cook time left so that the raw flour can cook and thicken the soup.
This moist environment allows you to leave food to cook for hours without risking it drying out. But because there is no evaporation, the liquid isn't able to reduce and thicken naturally in a slow cooker, often resulting in watery sauces and loose gravies. The common solution? Using a thickener.
While specially designated “slow cooker” sauces are not ideal for stovetop (because they are designed for long cooking to reach their potential), “simmer sauces” can absolutely be used in the slow cooker because their flavors won't be damaged by the low heat of slow cooking.
IF YOU COOK spaghetti in a big pot of water, drain it, then toss it with sauce, you are pouring a lot of flavor down the drain, says Vendemmia chef Brian Clevenger. “The trick to good pasta is cooking it in the sauce,” he says. It was while working at Delfina in San Francisco that he really started to understand why.
Yes, sugar might make the sauce taste better, but good old baking soda is an alkaline that will help balance the excess acid. A little pinch should do the trick.
The traditional thinking behind adding sugar to tomato sauce is based on the idea that it will balance out the natural acidity of tomatoes. Tomatoes contain both sugar and acid, specifically citric and malic acids.
A generous sprig or two of fresh herbs like basil, parsley, rosemary, or sage can all amp up the flavor of a jarred pasta sauce. Alternatively, some of those herbs, like parsley, sage, and rosemary, can be great minced up and gently fried into fresh olive oil before adding the sauce to the pot.
Tomatoes is the most popular ingredient in spaghetti sauce dishes. In fact, over 90% of spaghetti sauce recipes contain tomatoes. Variations of tomatoes include: tomato sauce: 15% of recipes.
Del Conte explains that "to make a good tomato sauce, you can either cook the tomatoes for a very short time or let them bubble for at least 40 minutes", because they only begin to release their acid juices after about 10 minutes, and these take at least half an hour's simmering to evaporate.
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