Slow Cooker Italian Sausage Tomato Sauce #MultiCookerMonday

 This delicious Italian Sausage Tomato Sauce is easily made in the slow cooker and was delicious served over spaghetti for dinner one evening.  There was enough sauce to use the remainder, sans sausage, over gnocchi a few days later as a quick and easy Meatless Monday meal.  That is a win/win/win.  A Slow cooker recipe that does double duty.

It is Multi-Cooker Monday........

Sue of Palatable Pastime invites us each 3rd Monday of the month to join her in sharing recipes that use those small kitchen appliances we all have, some of which get used more often than others.

Let's take a look at what the folks used for this month's recipes........

Multicooker Monday

Recipes using small kitchen appliances

• Slow Cooker Italian Sausage Tomato Sauce by A Day in the Life on the Farm
• Instant Pot Ranch Style Beans by Palatable Pastime
• Instant Pot Lemon Curd by Making Miracles
• Homemade Dulce de Leche (Pressure Cooker) by Sneha's Recipe
• Creamy Marinara Pasta in Instant Pot by Magical Ingredients
• Spicy Parmesan Pork Chops by Cookaholic Wife
• Vietnamese-Style Meatballs with Rice Noodles (Instant Pot) by Karen's Kitchen Stories

I made this sauce to serve up on spaghetti that we enjoyed with a bottle of Lambrusco for our Italian FWT group.  I only used 2 Italian Sausages in my batch because I was only feeding 2 of us for dinner that night.

The sausage was all gone after the first night but that lovely sauce flavored with the sausage went into the refrigerator.  I used it to top some store bought gnocchi for a second dinner and it was just as good, maybe better, than the first time we enjoyed it.  I find that tomato based sauces are often better the second or third day. How about you?

Slow Cooker, Pasta Sauce, Pork, Italian Sausage, Tomatoes

Pasta, Sauces

Italian

Yield: 8 servings

Author: Wendy Klik

Slow Cooker Italian Sausage Tomato Sauce

This delicious Italian Sausage Tomato Sauce is easily made in the slow cooker and was delicious served over spaghetti for dinner one evening. There was enough sauce to use the remainder, sans sausage, over gnocchi a few days later as a quick and easy Meatless Monday meal. That is a win/win/win. A Slow cooker recipe that does double duty.

Prep time: 15 MinCook time: 8 HourTotal time: 8 H & 15 M

Ingredients

• 1 T. olive oil
• 1/2 red onion, diced
• 1 red bell pepper, seeded and diced
• 2 cloves garlic, minced
• 1 bay leaf
• pinch of crushed red pepper
• 1 1/2 t. dried Italian Herbs
• salt and pepper, to taste
• 1 qt. whole tomatoes with juice
• 1 (15 oz) can tomato sauce
• 1 T. tomato paste
• 1 t. sugar
• 5-6 basil leaves, chopped
• 4 Italian sausage links

Instructions

1. Heat the oil in a skillet over med high heat.  Add the sausage and brown on all sides.  Remove to a cutting board and divide each sausage into thirds.  In the same skillet, cook the onions, pepper and garlic for a few minutes until onion is softened.  Transfer to the crock of a slow cooker.  Add the tomatoes to the crock, crushing with your hands or the back of a wooden spoon.  Stir in the tomato sauce and tomato paste along with the bay leaf, crushed red pepper flakes, salt, pepper, Italian herbs and sugar.  Add the Italian Sausage, cover and cook on low for 8 hrs. 
2. An hour before you are going to serve,  add the chopped basil to the sauce and continue to cook on low.  When ready to serve remove the bay leaf, taste and season with additional salt and pepper, if needed.  Serve over choice of pasta.

Nutrition Facts

Calories

189.38

Fat (grams)

12.21

Sat. Fat (grams)

4.10

Carbs (grams)

12.18

Fiber (grams)

1.57

Net carbs

10.60

Sugar (grams)

8.56

Protein (grams)

8.47

Sodium (milligrams)

627.60

Cholesterol (grams)

21.38

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