Slow Cooker Bolognese

Slow Cooker Bolognese is a classic Italian dinner recipe, made easily in your Crock Pot! This Crock Pot dinner is perfect for making easy freezer meals!

Course Main Course, meat

Cuisine Italian

Keyword Crock Pot Bolognese, Slow Cooker Bolognese

Prep Time 20

Cook Time 8

Total Time 8 20

Servings people

Calories 227kcal

Ingredients

1 onion
3 cloves garlic
2 stalks celery
1 carrot
2 lbs ground beef see notes
27 oz diced tomatoes or tomato sauce or a mix of both one big can or 2 small
sea salt
pepper
2 bay leaves
1-2 beef soup bones
1 cup beef bone broth

Instructions

Chop onion, garlic, celery, and carrot into small pieces and add to the slow cooker.
Add ground beef, diced tomatoes or tomato sauce, sea salt, pepper, bay leaves, beef soup bones, and broth and give it a stir breaking up the ground beef a little. (You can add other spices & herbs, too at this point if you like)
Put on the lid and set the slow cooker to 8 hours on low.
Once the 8-hour cooking time is over, give everything a good stir and finish breaking apart the beef.
Serve over pasta or in a lasagna. What I like to do is cook some linguini, spiralize some zucchini and then mix both up so I have more vegetables in my meal. Enjoy!

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Notes

the more fat, the more tender the meat but also the more the calories. Use fatty, lean or extra lean depending on your preference. The nutritional info is for a bolognese made with lean ground beef.

Nutrition

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