Our Slow Cooker Bolognese Sauce brings together aromatic vegetables, red wine and ground beef to slow cook to perfection. A little parmesan cheese rounds out this tomato based sauce leaving you with a comforting and hearty pasta dish.
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons Olive Oil
- ¾ cups mince Onion
- 1 cup grate Carrot
- 1 cup dice Celery
- 3 teaspoons mince Garlic, Cloves
- 1 cup Red Wine
- ⅓ cups cook and dice Bacon
- 1 cup Beef Bone Broth/Stock
- 28 ounces Crushed Tomatoes, Canned
- 3 tablespoons Tomato Paste
- ½ teaspoons Sea Salt
- ½ teaspoons Black Pepper
- 3 cups cook Ground Beef
- ¼ cups Parmesan Cheese, Grated
- 16 ounces Spaghetti
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Freeze For Later Cooking Day Directions
These directions help you cook or prepare this meal PRIOR to being frozen for serving later (see Serving Day Directions when you are ready to prepare it to eat).
Why would I want to freeze this?
- In a large skillet over medium high heat, heat olive oil.
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Make From Frozen Serving Day Directions
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- Thaw: In fridge
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Make It Now Cooking Directions
These directions are for cooking this recipe to serve immediately and NOT to freeze for later.
- In a large skillet over medium high heat, heat olive oil.
- Add in onion, carrots, celery and garlic. Cook for 7-8 minutes, until veggies begin to soften.
- Pour veggies into slow cooker.
- Using red wine, deglaze skillet over low heat. Scrape any bits off the bottom of the pan, then allow wine to reduce for 2-3 minutes.
- Once wine has reduced, pour into slow cooker on top of veggies.
- Add bacon, beef broth, tomatoes, tomato paste, sea salt, black pepper and ground beef to slow cooker.
- Cook in slow cooker on low for 6 hours.
- In the last 20 minutes, stir in Parmesan cheese.
- Cook noodles according to package directions.
- Serve bolognese sauce over noodles.
Nutrition Facts
- Servings Per Recipe
- 8 Servings
- Serving Size
- about 1 cup sauce & 1 cup spaghetti Amount Per Serving
- Calories
- 586
- Total Fat
- 22g
- Saturated Fat
- 7g
- Trans Fat
- 1g
- Cholesterol
- 85mg
- Sodium
- 655mg
- Total Carbohydrates
- 57g
- Fiber
- 5g
- Sugar
- 9g
- Protein
- 35g
- WW Freestyle
- 15
13 Comments
Join the discussionIs it possible to say what size slow cooker would be appropriate for the recipe if it served, for example 4 people? I’m finding that a lot of the recipes, when I make them for 6 servicings are too small for my 5 qt slow cooker and they cook too fast and not evenly. Anyone else have that issue? THanks.
I always use my 6 quart programmable slow cooker. But cook time can depend on the size and brand of your slow cooker.
This is tagged as a no-cooking meal…but really it’s not. You have to cook the veggies AND either cook the meat (or I guess use pre-cooked) but I think it’s a little misleading to say no cooking
Thank you so much for catching that for us Caroline! I have updated to reflect that it is not an Easy Assembly meal. However, it is a delicious one.. my family loved it!
I am excited to make it 🙂
Can you freeze the sauce after you cook it?
Definitely Logan! In fact, I made some the other day to have already cooked so I can just pull it out at dinner on crazy nights.
hi there, do you leave the lid off while slow cooking for 6 hrs? tks gylsie
In slow cookers, the lid should always be on during cooking time.
What sort of red wine would you recommend for this? I was thinking a moderately-lower priced Merlot or cab sav…A really great tip I’ve found for cooking with wine is to grab those little four pack single serving bottles so you’re not always left with a bottle open or waiting to open a bottle to use it in a recipe.
A cab would be good or even merlot:) I like your tip on the 4-packs!
If you don’t want to use wine, can beef broth be substituted?
Definitely!