Slow Cooked Spaghetti Sauce

By Thom7747

Delicious sauce.

"A very easy, stand-alone recipe. It's also a great base recipe, ripe for customization as shown by the comments! I have to admit I generally make a sauce based on a Mario Battali recipe, which is much more time consuming and costly. The Battali recipe creates a great sauce, but I often don't have the time (hours) to tend to it. This sauce is flavorful, adaptable, and the newest addition to my Big Oven collection.

Ingredients

• 1 pound ground beef or bulk Italian sausage
• 1 medium onion; chopped
• 2 28-oz cans diced tomatoes; undrained
• 2 6-oz cans tomato paste
• 1 bay leaf
• 1 tablespoon Brown sugar
• 1 tbsp Worcestershire Sauce
• 1 tsp Louisiana hot sauce
• 6 garlic Cloves
• 1 teaspoon dried basil; (up to 2 teaspoons)
• 1 teaspoon dried oregano; (up to 2 teaspoons)
• 1 teaspoon Salt
• 1/2 teaspoon dried thyme; (up to 1 teaspoon)
• spaghetti; cooked, hot

Details

Servings 6
Cooking time 45mins
Adapted from bigoven.com

Preparation

Step 1

In a skillet, cook beef and onion over medium heat until meat is no longer pink: drain. Transfer to a slow cooker. Add the next 10 ingredients. Cover and cook on low for 7-8 hours or until heated through. Discard bay leaf. Serve over spaghetti. Yield:6-8 servings