Crockpot Spaghetti

On snowy wintertime days, when it is skillful to remain to a greater extent than or less home, I bask making dinner inwards the Crockpot. One of our favorite's is spaghetti; our kids were raised on this recipe as well as it is i of picky-picky husbands favorites.

The thick as well as hearty sauce as well as tender meatballs actually demand a corporation 6 hours or to a greater extent than inwards the deadening cooker, hence don't hold upwards tempted to rush it. I dearest the means my kitchen smells when I brand this sauce.


MEATBALLS

1 pound of thin (90% or better) solid pose down beef

1/2 loving cup fine DRY breadstuff crumbs

1 egg

1 teaspoon salt

1/4 teaspoon dark pepper

Mix all of the meatball ingredients as well as kind into walnut size meatballs. Bake inwards a 350 oven for xv minutes as well as hence drain good earlier adding to sauce.

SPAGHETTI SAUCE

(1) xiv ounce tin rank the axe of evidently love apple tree sauce

(1) 12 ounce tin rank the axe of love apple tree paste

4 cups water

3/4 loving cup chopped onion
1 loving cup finely diced carrot

1 clove of minced garlic
1 tablespoon olive oil

2 teaspoons dried sweetness basil

1 teaspoon dried oregano

1/2 teaspoon fennel seed  (crush it inwards mortar as well as pestle)

1 teaspoon salt

1/2 teaspoon dark pepper

1 tablespoon saccharide (don't piece of job out out)
small pinch of cayenne 

Saute the onions, garlic as well as carrots inwards the olive crude oil until they are really aromatic (they don't demand to hold upwards cooked through). Add the residue of the sauce ingredients as well as convey to a boil.  Put the sauce inwards the Crockpot as well as add together the baked meatballs. Cook on high for 6 hours.

The final brace of hours, piece of job out the slow cooker lid opened upwards just a crack hence the sauce volition cut back as well as thicken. Serve over spaghetti noodles.

NOTE: If yous similar mushrooms, add together them the final hr of cooking.

ENJOY !!!