Italian Sausage Slow Cooker Bolognese
 
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A somewhat spicy, meaty, and fulfilling made from scratch pasta sauce to serve over pasta, veggie spirals, or eat alone.
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Recipe type: Sauce
Cuisine: Italian
Serves: 8-12
Ingredients
  • 2 pounds ground pork seasoned with homemade Italian sausage seasoning
  • 1 large onion, finely diced
  • ¼ cup minced garlic, or to taste
  • 3, 18 oz jars Jovial Crushed Tomatoes
  • 12 oz jar Bionaturae Tomato Paste
  • 24 oz jar Bionaturae Strained Tomatoes
  • ½ cup beef broth (preferably homemade bone broth)
  • ½ cup dry red wine
  • 1 tablespoon dried Italian herb seasoning
  • 2 tablespoons dried basil
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • ½ teaspoon ground black pepper, or to taste
Instructions
  1. Heat a large skillet over medium-high heat and stir in ground pork seasoned with homemade italian sausage seasoning recipe (use your own or the one we've linked in the post), diced onion, and minced garlic.
  2. Brown the pork and crumble.
  3. Stir in crushed tomatoes, tomato paste, strained tomatoes, beef broth, red wine, Italian seasoning, basil, salt, and black pepper.
  4. Transfer the sauce to a slow cooker and cook on low for 6 to 8 hours.
  5. Serve over einkorn wheat rigatoni, spiralized squash/veggie pasta, spaghetti squash, gluten free pasta, or bean thread noodles
Recipe by Find Your Intuitive Balance at https://www.findyourintuitivebalance.com/italian-sausage-slow-cooker-bolognese/