Slow Cooker Sunday Sauce/Gravy. Transfer the sausages to a bowl and cover. 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.
What to Make with Homemade Beef Gravy. I like to use slow cooker beef gravy as a topping for Loco Moco! So why Crockpot Sunday Sauce on a Monday? You can have Slow Cooker Sunday Sauce/Gravy using 13 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Slow Cooker Sunday Sauce/Gravy
- You need of Use my Nana's Italian Meatballs Recipe for this, but do not bake it.
- You need 1 lb of Italian Sausage, preferably Hot.
- Prepare 1 lb of Stew Meat.
- Prepare 1 (28 oz) of can of No Sodium Crushed Tomatoes.
- It’s 1 (28 oz) of can of Tomato Puree.
- It’s 1 (6 oz) of can of Tomato Paste.
- You need 2 tsp of Ground Black Pepper.
- It’s 2 tsp of Dried Oregano.
- You need 2 tsp of Garlic powder.
- Prepare 1 tsp of Dried Basil.
- It’s 1 tsp of Dried Parsley.
- It’s 1 tbsp of Sugar.
- It’s 2-3 of Bay leaves.
Hello, because I am giving you six whole days to run to the store, buy whatever you may not have and put this on the books for this Sunday. There is even a good possibility you already have everything on hand to make this right now. It's all about staple ingredients today. Tips for Slow Cooker Short Rib Sunday Gravy: I used four, English cut short ribs in my recipe.
Slow Cooker Sunday Sauce/Gravy step by step
- 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..
- 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..
- 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..
- 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..
- Add all of the spices, except the bay leaves, into the sauce. Stir it all together, then add the bay leaves on top..
- Put the cover on top of the slow cooker, set the temperature to low and put the timer to 4 hours..
- Stir and enjoy!.
You could use up to six short ribs for an even meatier sauce. Cook this recipe on LOW heat, not high. You really want the flavors to build slowly and the short ribs need time to break down and become tender. Sunday sauce is a completely different beast than marinara or any other tomato-based recipe, mainly due to the time it takes to cook (pretty much all day) and the various meats that stew in it. Meatballs and Italian pork sausage are standard, but beyond that, you can get creative with the additions.
