Recipe: Perfect Slow Cooker Sunday Sauce/Gravy

Slow Cooker Sunday Sauce/Gravy. Recipe courtesy of Food Network Kitchen. This sauce showcases tomatoes three ways: sun-dried tomatoes add sweetness and body, toasted tomato paste adds intense flavor, while crushed tomatoes melt down into this hearty sauce. Slow cooker Sunday gravy is a deeply flavorful, many-meats sauce that cooks for hours and hours on end. [Photograph: Jennifer Olvera].

Bring out the slow cooker to develop deep flavor with tender beef short ribs and spicy sausage in a hearty tomato sauce. Buon appetito from Our Food Network Kitchen. Who really cares if in another country it is called gravy! You can cook Slow Cooker Sunday Sauce/Gravy using 13 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Slow Cooker Sunday Sauce/Gravy

1. You need of Use my Nana's Italian Meatballs Recipe for this, but do not bake it.
2. You need 1 lb of Italian Sausage, preferably Hot.
3. It's 1 lb of Stew Meat.
4. It's 1 (28 oz) of can of No Sodium Crushed Tomatoes.
5. It's 1 (28 oz) of can of Tomato Puree.
6. Prepare 1 (6 oz) of can of Tomato Paste.
7. It's to taste of Ground Black Pepper.
8. Prepare 2 tsp of Dried Oregano.
9. You need 2 tsp of Garlic powder.
10. You need 1 tsp of Dried Basil.
11. You need 1 tsp of Dried Parsley.
12. It's 1 tbsp of Sugar.
13. Prepare 2-3 of Bay leaves.

All Reviews for Slow Cooker Sunday Sauce on Spaghetti. Canned whole peeled tomatoes work best in this delicious sauce. Use a pair of kitchen shears to coarsely cut them in the can, or squeeze them by hand. Transfer to slow cooker, reserving drippings in skillet.

Slow Cooker Sunday Sauce/Gravy instructions

1. Preheat Broiler for the meatballs. Put the meatballs into the broiler for 7 minutes, flip them. Place the meatballs back into the broiler for another 7 minutes. Remove the meatballs, put them to side to cool..
2. Keep the broiler on and put the sausages into the broiler. Cook the sausages for 6 minutes, flip them, and put them back into the broiler for 6 minutes. Place the sausages with the meatballs to cool off..
3. Preheat a medium sized pan on a stove-top over a medium high heat. Add ground black pepper to all of the sides of the stew meat, then brown the stew meat on all sides. Once each side is browned, store with the sausages and meatballs..
4. Place the meatballs, sausages, and stew meat in a 6 quart slow cooker. Pour the crushed tomatoes, tomato puree, and tomato paste on top of that..
5. Add all of the spices, except the bay leaves, into the sauce. Stir it all together, then add the bay leaves on top..
6. Put the cover on top of the slow cooker, set the temperature to low and put the timer to 4 hours..
7. Stir and enjoy!.

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