Slow Cooker Sunday Sauce/Gravy. Throw McCormick® Slow Cooker Sauces In Your Slow Cooker To Add More Flavor To Your Dishes. Slow cooker Sunday gravy is a deeply flavorful, many-meats sauce that cooks for hours and hours on end. [Photograph: Jennifer Olvera] A sacred Italian-American institution, Sunday gravy is a meat-forward, all-day-simmered dish with as many recipes as there are Italian families who make it. Pour into the slow cooker with the broth set over high heat and whisk until combined.

Meat literally fell off bones, making for a very nice Sunday "gravy" A sacred Italian-American institution, Sunday gravy is a meat-forward, all-day-simmered meal, with as many variations as there are Italian families. My version incorporates flank steak braciole, Italian sausage, tender meatballs, and pork ribs along with onions, carrots, celery, and garlic, all simmered together in a rich red sauce. The slow cooker makes easy work of what once took hours of. You can cook Slow Cooker Sunday Sauce/Gravy using 13 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Slow Cooker Sunday Sauce/Gravy

1. You need of Use my Nana's Italian Meatballs Recipe for this, but do not bake it.
2. It's 1 lb of Italian Sausage, preferably Hot.
3. You need 1 lb of Stew Meat.
4. Prepare 1 (28 oz) of can of No Sodium Crushed Tomatoes.
5. You need 1 (28 oz) of can of Tomato Puree.
6. Prepare 1 (6 oz) of can of Tomato Paste.
7. Prepare 1 tsp of Ground Black Pepper.
8. It's 2 tsp of Dried Oregano.
9. You need 2 tsp of Garlic powder.
10. You need 1 tsp of Dried Basil.
11. Prepare 1 tsp of Dried Parsley.
12. Prepare 1 tbsp of Sugar.
13. It's 2-3 of Bay leaves.

This Slow Cooker Short Rib Sunday Gravy is not quite as simple as the Instant Pot Bolognese Pasta Sauce I recently shared. But it's worth the extra time involved to fix it. If you've never heard of a Sunday Gravy before, I've done a little research to help you understand the term. It's believed to be derived from a Neapolitan Ragù.

Slow Cooker Sunday Sauce/Gravy step by step

1. Preheat Broiler for the meatballs. Put the meatballs into the broiler for 7 minutes, flip them. Place the meatballs back into the broiler for another 7 minutes. Remove the meatballs, put them to side to cool..
2. Keep the broiler on and put the sausages into the broiler. Cook the sausages for 6 minutes, flip them, and put them back into the broiler for 6 minutes. Place the sausages with the meatballs to cool off..
3. Preheat a medium sized pan on a stove-top over a medium high heat. Add ground black pepper to all of the sides of the stew meat, then brown the stew meat on all sides. Once each side is browned, store with the sausages and meatballs..
4. Place the meatballs, sausages, and stew meat in a 6 quart slow cooker. Pour the crushed tomatoes, tomato puree, and tomato paste on top of that..
5. Add all of the spices, except the bay leaves, into the sauce. Stir it all together, then add the bay leaves on top..
6. Put the cover on top of the slow cooker, set the temperature to low and put the timer to 4 hours..
7. Stir and enjoy!.

Scrape the onion and garlic on top of the meat in the slow cooker. Add both cans of tomatoes, salt, and pepper into the slow cooker on top of the meat mixture. I'm reaching way back to the earliest memories of my youth, to the first pasta accompaniment I ever knew and loved: Sunday sauce. Back then that's not what we called it, at least in my family. So this Sunday sauce, let's talk about it.