Crock Pot Spaghetti Sauce

Total Time: 10 hrs 20 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 10 hrs

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 4 tablespoons cooking oil, divided
• 1 small onion, finely chopped
• 1 (15 1/2 ounce) can tomato sauce
• 1 1/2 cups water
• 1/2 teaspoon pepper
• 1/2 teaspoon red pepper (optional)
• 1 lb ground beef
• 1 (29 ounce) can tomato puree
• 1 (6 ounce) can tomato paste
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon oregano
• 2 lbs sausage (italian links or country style)
• 1/4-1/2 cup sugar, to taste (optional)

Recipe

• 1 brown ground beef in 2 tablespoons hot oil in frying pan.
• 2 when almost browned, add onion and continue browning until onion is tender. pour meat and onion into crock pot.
• 3 add puree, sauce, paste, water, salt, pepper and oregano and set dial on low setting.
• 4 cut 2 pounds sausage into pieces and brown in remaining 2 tablespoons oil. when brown, place sausages in sauce in crock pot.
• 5 continue cooking for 12 hours.
• 6 if you like your sauce sweeter, you could add 1/4 to 1/2 cup sugar to this.