Slow Cooker Italian Tomato Sauce. From Pasta To Pizzas To Mouth watering Desserts, Here Are Kraft®'s Best Recipes! 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. Prepare 1 (28 oz) of can of No Sodium Tomato Sauce.
2. It's 1 (28 oz) of can of Tomato Puree.
3. It's 1 (6 oz) of can of Tomato Paste.
4. Prepare 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. It's 1 tsp of Dried Basil.
8. It's 1 tsp of Dried Parsley.
9. You need 1-2 tbsp of Sugar.
10. It's 2-3 of Bay leaves.
11. Prepare 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. Stir in diced tomatoes, tomato paste, tomato sauce, chicken broth, red wine, Italian seasoning, basil, salt, and black pepper. Slow Cooker Chicken in Italian Tomato Sauce. Chicken parts cook slowly in an Italian tomato and herb sauce in this slow cooker recipe.

Slow Cooker Italian Tomato Sauce step by step

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!.

Our sauce makes a great pizza topper and is the base for three delicious variations served with pasta or rice. 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. Freeze for later or use right away.