Recipe: Perfect Slow Cooker Tomato Sauce

Slow Cooker Tomato Sauce. Throw McCormick® Slow Cooker Sauces In Your Slow Cooker To Add More Flavor To Your Dishes. The sauce gets super thick, rich and loaded with flavor. Cooking the tomato sauce for a long period of time helps to bring out the sweetness in the tomatoes.

The perfect meal for busy weeknights or Sunday dinner. This rich and hearty red sauce tastes like it's been cooked for hours, because it has. The secret to rich, naturally sweet, complex flavors is to cook the sauce in the oven, allowing the surface to brown while the sauce slowly concentrates. You can have Slow Cooker Tomato Sauce using 13 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Slow Cooker Tomato Sauce

1. You need of Canned Tomato Puree.
2. Prepare of Minced White Onion.
3. Prepare of Minced Carrot.
4. It's of Salt.
5. It's of Dried Thyme.
6. You need of Crushed Garlic.
7. It's of Dried Rosemary.
8. It's of Dried Oregano.
9. It's of Bay Leaves.
10. Prepare of Granulated Sugar (optional).
11. It's of Red Wine.
12. You need of Water.
13. You need of Fresh Basil Leaves.

The resultant sauce is great on pasta, with meatballs, on your chicken parm, or scooped right out of the pan with a spoon on its own. Our sauce makes a great pizza topper and is the base for three delicious variations served with pasta or rice. Return the strained tomato sauce to the crockpot to cook down further to thicken the sauce. Turn the crockpot to low and vent the cover so excess moisture evaporates.

Slow Cooker Tomato Sauce step by step

1. Pour all ingredients, EXCEPT basil, into slow cooker, stir, cover, and cook on low for 10 hours..
2. After cooking is complete, add one cup of sauce and basil leaves to a blender. Blend until smooth and return to rest of sauce..
3. Serve over pasta, in lasagna, or any way you like..

This zesty slow-cooker tomato sauce sauce is an easy classic. And the result is so flavorful, it will quickly become a family favorite. Enjoy pasta, meatballs, chicken parm, and more! Return pureed tomatoes (now sauce!) back to the slow cooker and cover. Season to taste with salt and pepper.

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