We love our slow cookers, and this spaghetti sauce is sure to please everyone. We have been tweaking this recipe for a while until we got it just the way we want it.
This spaghetti sauce is loaded with vegetables and our kids have no idea.
It’s probably one of my favorite mom secrets. I love sneaking things into my kids dinners, they eat the entire thing, then tell them of all the vegetables they ate after.
It’s great, because when we eat those vegetables again, I remind them of how much they loved it when they ate all their spaghetti the other night.
This Slow Cooker 2 Meat Spaghetti Sauce is a mom win every time. It’s the perfect way to introduce new veggies, and satisfy those picky eaters.
Would any noodle work?
For this recipe, I used spaghetti noodles. However, you don’t have to use spaghetti noodles. I just prefer it, because the noodles are easier to stab, and it’s perfect for little fingers.
Really any noodles or pasta you have on hand, will work for this recipe.
I have also made it using penne pasta, as well as bow tie pasta, and they both tasted the same, and just as delicious.
I have also made this with whole wheat noodles and it was very tasty and a healthier alternative as well.
sneak in extra veggies:
The thing I love about this recipe, is it’s so easy to sneak in extra vegetables. You could easily throw in spinach, or even broccoli, peas, carrots, zucchini, celery, squash, etc. It’s so tasty and so easy to disguise veggies in this recipe, if you have picky eaters.
I will usually throw in an extra handful or two of spinach, because as it cooks, it shrinks down a little.
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Slow Cooker 2 Meat Spaghetti Sauce
Ingredients
- 1 pound ground beef
- 1 pound Italian sausage
- 1 onion, diced
- 28 ounces crushed tomatoes, (do not drain)
- 8 ounces fresh sliced mushrooms
- 1 green bell pepper, diced
- ¾ cup carrots, diced
- 1¼ cups water
- 8 ounces tomato sauce, 1 can
- 6 ounces tomato paste, 1 can
- ¾ cup chili sauce
- 2 Tablespoons brown sugar
- 1 Tablespoon Italian seasoning
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ¼ teaspoon pepper
- 16 ounces spaghetti noodles, 1 package, cooked
- ½ cup Parmesan cheese, optional topping
Equipment
Instructions
- Cook ground beef and sausage and onion in frying pan. Cook until meat is no longer pink.
- Put meat in the slow cooker. Add in crushed tomatoes, sliced mushrooms, green pepper, carrots, water, tomato sauce, tomato paste, chili sauce, brown sugar, Italian seasoning, garlic, salt, and pepper. Stir all together.
- Cook on high for 5 to 6 hours or on low for 8 to 10 hours.
- Serve over cooked spaghetti noodles, and top with Parmesan Cheese.
Notes
Nutrition
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Hi there, LOVE your site! Your banana cake is AMAZING. Can you please tell me what chili sauce is? Thank you!!
What a great idea and great recipe. I ways love the pops of carrot in a red sauce.
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Happy Valley Chow
Sauce sounds wonderful! Will give it a try. Do you know if this recipe ccan go through the canning process?
Hank you for sharing! Love your blog.
Linda Jones
We have never canned it. You could compare the recipe to some spaghetti sauce recipes that are bottled and see how closely they compare. Let us know!!
Chili sauce is found on the ketchup aisle and it’s basically ketchup with a kick. We added it to give the spaghetti sauce a little more taste. You could skip it if you can’t find it in your store. It comes in major name brands and also store brands. The store brands taste great and tend to be cheaper.
This looks like a wonderful recipe. Do you know if it can be frozen?
Yes, we have some spaghetti sauce in the freezer right now!
Thank you so much for your reply! I’m going to make a huge batch to separate up and freeze – love the crock (mine is huge, was my gram’s no idea how old!) and I love easy dinners!
This is our new favorite spaghetti! I will never buy another jar of sauce again because this puts any other spaghetti to shame!
I’ve made my own chili sauce whenever we have this because I always forget to buy it.
I prepped everything and then froze it before cooking in the crock pot. Just defrost and pop in the crock pot. Dinner is ready!!