Who Knew You Could Make Gourmet Food With A Crock Pot?
Nothing hits the spot quite like a hearty helping of rich, saucy, savory spaghetti. One bite of tender pasta and zesty sauce and you won't know what hit you. Yum!
Among spaghetti dishes, Spaghetti Bolognese might just be one of the most satisfying, thanks to its generous servings of vegetables, its ample spices and enough meat to stick to your ribs. However, this enticing dish also has a reputation as one of the more complicated and time-consuming recipes of Italian cuisine.
Enter this crock pot version, which is so easy to make you might just make it once a week!
To learn how to make this indulgent pasta dish, please continue to Page (2) for the full list of ingredients and complete cooking instructions…
Doloris Scipio-Johnson
I have to agree, this is not a traditional Italian meet sauce which may have poor, beef, sausage and meatballs in it. It is surely not made in a crockpot. That is more that an Americanized version of an Italian meat sauce or a Bolognese sauce. It may be good but it is surely not traditional. I’ll take mine with sausage, boneless pork ribs, braciola, meatballs, stuffed breast of veal thank you…
I’m italian. My grandparents came from Italy. We NEVER put celery in our sauce. Blech….
Lol
Ditto
Yes!!!
No thanks…will stick with my recipe that I’ve been using for years
Yum
I’m not Italian and i make a great gravy. I find it insulting you say non italians should just give it their best shot or buy a jar.
I used to cook it on the stove very rarely now. I use my crock pot and it comes out great
they did not use hamburger in the original. It was beef cooked so long it shredded. This sounds like a mighty fine sauce other than that.
Those people hide behind the screen and feel so big bad mouthing, doesn’t matter what the subject is.
Maybe people are rude to them in person and they don’t have the gall to stand up so they take it out on these comment sections where they are safe from getting an a$$ whooping.
Gia Russa! Haven’t tried it but my Italian parents say it’s acceptable.
Why dont they call it Gravy? just wondering
I’ll make this – if it turns out to be as great as they claim, I’ll make extra and freeze it.
I make mine in a crock pot
ummm, I can almost smell it
Prego is my favorite since I’m not Italian
YUM…
I’m not Italian, but love Italian foods. Growing up, my German/ English mother made lots of Italian dishes. I have passed on her recipes to my kids and grandkids. I have always made homemade sauce, but when I need a fast spaghetti sauce, I always get Hunts spaghetti sauce, and add a few spices of my own. It tastes really good….not like homemade, but a good substitute.
Well Lou, I’m letting your rude remark ,about being a bunch of pigeons ,slide….for the simple fact that you’re a man. But, just because everyone else makes their sauce/gravy differently, it’s not a bad thing. Using a crockpot is usually a thing you have to slide into. Not everyone uses it very often and to some, it’s a Godsend. My daughter has 7 children and she uses her 8.5 quart crockpot almost every day. If your mother and grandmother had ever tried one, they might have liked it, especially if they had big families and lots of things to do during the day. My mother, who would be 95 if she was still alive, had a small crockpot. I don’t think she ever used it….she made everything by hand. 🙂
I am an older Italian Lady (72) and I now use my crockpot to make my sauce. That is the only thing I make in my crockpot and it comes out as good as when I cooked it on the stove
Gravy is made from the juices of animals hence chicken gravy, beef gravy, pork gravy. Sauce is made from tomatoes and used for pasta.
that is a bolognese sauce
This is a Bologonese sauce not a traditional sauce
Meat based
My Mom’s exact recipe!!!! Love & miss you always!!!
Can you buy in Oregon?
Sorry Pamela, we’re not in Oregon.
Real Italians that had real Italian Parents and grand Parents know how to make real Italian sauce! It’s a tradition that almost can’t be duplicated exactly, but it is a close rendition of the family sauce that you will always remember and pass down through generations. It has someting to do with love and tradition.
Well said.
I never did see what the “special step you have to adhere to or it will be ruined” is….
Oh yeah
Oh yeah
Look Melissa Sabocsik Maule, sauce it says
Thanks for sharing your recipe. I look forward to trying it.
A crockery cooker holds moisture in the sauce, causing your final plating to be watery. This extra moisture would evaporate when the sauce is cooked low and slow on a stove.
The loss of moisture is intentional if you want rich, thick sauce!
Also, drain your pasta well, NEVER rinse or add oil or butter to the cooking water or at the end!
Save a bit of the pasta water for the sauce – the starch helps the sauce cling to the pasta.
Because it is not sold everywhere ? I have never heard of it but would try it if I found it.
Crock pots are not for sauce, unless you leave the cover off. To watery with the cover on.
Cook all day but without the cover on. No real Italian uses a cover on their sauce. It makes it too watered down.
I made this and had to really doctor it up. It was horrible.
Thank you for short cut
Please, from a non-Italian, tell me your recipes! There are people above to said what they put in it, but not the amounts. Have pity on a non-Italian and tell us the amounts for that authentic taste. Mmm…
Recipe sounds good, BUT, it will make enough to feed the entire neighborhood, or my family for 2 yrs!!
Laci, a lot of people just “wing it” when they are making their sauce. But recipes in google under Italian recipes for sauce, do have the amounts in there. Good luck. It will be fine.
This is garbage,
Carol Bachand You are so right. And there are way too many rude and ignorant people!
yum
This sounds amazing