Slow Cooker Italian Tomato Sauce. Taste The Delicious, Italian-Inspired Red Pasta Sauce From Classico. 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 cook Slow Cooker Italian Tomato Sauce using 11 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Slow Cooker Italian Tomato Sauce

1. It's 1 (28 oz) of can of No Sodium Tomato Sauce.
2. Prepare 1 (28 oz) of can of Tomato Puree.
3. It's 1 (6 oz) of can of Tomato Paste.
4. It's 1/4 cup of Water.
5. It's 2 tsp of Dried Oregano.
6. It's 2 tsp of Garlic powder or 2-3 Cloves of Garlic, minced.
7. Prepare 1 tsp of Dried Basil.
8. Prepare 1 tsp of Dried Parsley.
9. You need 1-2 tbsp of Sugar.
10. It's 2-3 of Bay leaves.
11. It's of Ground Black Pepper for taste.

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. Fill the slow cooker with chopped fresh tomatoes and the garlic. Remove the lid and let cool. Use a large slotted spoon to scoop out the tomato solids.

Slow Cooker Italian Tomato Sauce instructions

1. Pour the tomato puree and tomato sauce the slow cooker..
2. Next, add the tomato paste into the pot, then add the water..
3. Put all of the spices, except the bay leaves, into the sauce. Stir it all together..
4. Place the bay leaves into the pot, after you stir the sauce..
5. Place the cover on top of the slow cooker, set the temperature to low and put the timer to 6-8 hours. At the halfway point, be it 3 or 4 hours, stir the sauce..
6. After you stir it, put the lid back on the slow cooker and cook for another 3 to 4 hours..
7. Enjoy!.

Freeze for later or use right away. TIP: I like to use quart-size freezer storage containers to store this tomato sauce. Vegetarian Tomato Sauce Return pureed tomatoes (now sauce!) back to the slow cooker and cover. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Store tomato sauce in glass jars or freeze in ziplock or other freezer friendly container.