This slow cooker Sunday Sauce is a hearty, delicious crowd pleaser. There is just no other way to describe it!

If you love a meat sauce, you will love this slow cooker Sunday sauce. It combines beef and Italian sausage, simmered for hours in the slow cooker with tomatoes, mushrooms, peppers, garlic, and seasonings. There is some prep work that needs to happen in the morning (about 30 to 40 minutes), so plan ahead. The meat is browned first on the stove, and then the veggies are sauteed in that same pan so they soak up the flavor. Once that's done, it all goes in the slow cooker, and it's hands off…

A true Sunday sauce should taste intensely rich of tomato that has stewed low and slow for what seems like forever.

Sunday sauce is a no nonsense Authentic Italian recipe, A slow simmered, meaty rich, tomato sauce known for its bold flavor and long cooking time. Served over pasta as a delicious tomato gravy, this recipe is perfect for cozy Sunday evenings.

traditional slow cooker sunday red sauce (sweetandsavoryfood.com)

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Every Sunday, my mother would rise early to assemble her “Sunday Gravy,” which is what Italian Americans in Philadelphia, much of New Jersey and enclaves of Connecticut called your basic red sauce.

Whether it’s called red sauce, sugo or gravy, you’ll find a big pot of the rich tomato sauce simmering all Sunday long in many Italian-American households. Every family has their own version, but this recipe includes shreddy pork shoulder, sausage and meatballs. This slow-cooker version lets you simmer it overnight or while you’re not home, and without splatters and stirring (though you can also make it on a stovetop). Once the sauce is done, coat pasta in the sauce, spoon the meats on top…

Sunday gravy recipe (Italian Sunday sauce) Slow-simmered tomato sauce cooked in the Italian tradition with meat. Worth the wait!