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Slow-Cooked Beef Spaghetti Sauce Recipe

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Down-home and delicious, this sauce simmers fuss-free for hours, leaving you time to start a spring garden or more. Kim Stewart - North Little Rock, Arkansas

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Slow-Cooked Beef Spaghetti Sauce Recipe

Prep: 15 min. Cook: 8 hours

Yield: 10 Servings

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Ingredients

2 pounds lean ground beef (90% lean)
1 large green pepper, chopped
1 large onion, chopped
1-1/2 cups water
1 can (14-1/2 ounces) diced tomatoes, undrained
1 can (8 ounces) tomato sauce
1 can (6 ounces) tomato paste
2 garlic cloves, minced
4 bay leaves
2 tablespoons Italian seasoning
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon sugar
1 teaspoon dried parsley flakes
1/2 teaspoon pepper
1/4 teaspoon dried rosemary, crushed
Hot cooked spaghetti

Directions

In a large skillet over medium heat, cook beef until no longer pink; drain. Transfer to a 5-qt. slow cooker. Stir in the green pepper, onion, water, tomatoes, tomato sauce, paste, garlic and seasonings. Cover and cook on low for 8 hours or until bubbly. Discard bay leaves; serve over spaghetti. Yield: 2 quarts.

Nutritional Facts 3/4 cup sauce (calculated without spaghetti) equals 186 calories, 8 g fat (3 g saturated fat), 56 mg cholesterol, 452 mg sodium, 9 g carbohydrate, 2 g fiber, 20 g protein. Diabetic Exchanges: 3 lean meat, 3 vegetable.

Originally published as Slow-Cooked Spaghetti Sauce in Simple & Delicious March/April 2010, p51

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Reviewed on Jun. 04, 2010 by jpsluis

Did not taste good at all. Family ate it because we were hungry.

Reviewed on May. 28, 2010 by lurky27

We followed this recipe verbatim, and it just didn't taste that great. The beef had an odd consistency. There are many other recipes for spaghetti sauce that I would make again before this one.

~ Theresa