Cook Once Eat Twice Slow Cooker Italian Sausage Food

SLOW COOKER SAUSAGE WITH SAUCE

Steps:

• Place the Italian sausage links, spaghetti sauce, green pepper and onion into a slow cooker. Stir to coat everything in sauce.
• Cover, and cook on Low for 6 hours. Serve on hoagie rolls.

SLOW-COOKER SAUSAGE CASSEROLE

Steps:

• Fry the onion and celery in the oil over a low heat until it starts to soften and cook, about 5 mins, then spoon it into the slow cooker. Fry the carrots briefly and add them too.
• Brown the sausages all over in the same frying pan - make sure they get a really good colour because they won't get any browner in the slow cooker. Transfer to the slow cooker and add the sweet potato and tomatoes.
• Put the purée in the frying pan and add 250ml boiling water, swirl everything around to pick up every last bit of flavour, and tip the lot into the slow cooker. Add the herbs, stock cube and some pepper. Don't add salt until the casserole is cooked as the stock can be quite salty. Cook on high for 4 hrs or on low for 8 hrs, then serve or leave to cool and freeze.

COOK ONCE, EAT TWICE SLOW-COOKER ITALIAN SAUSAGE

Steps:

• Mix pasta sauce and 2 Tbsp. Parmesan in slow cooker sprayed with slow cooker. Add sausage; stir to evenly coat with sauce. Cover with lid. Cook on LOW 6 hours (or on HIGH 3 hours).
• Add vegetables; stir. Cook, covered, 30 min.
• Place half the sausage pieces in rolls; top with half the sauce. Sprinkle with remaining Parmesan.
• Cool remaining sausages and sauce. Refrigerate until ready to serve. (See tip.)

CHUNKY ITALIAN SAUSAGE STEW, COOK ONCE, EAT TWICE CATEGORY

Steps:

• In a very large skillet cook the bulk sausage over medium heat until brown, stirring ocassionaly to break into bite size pieces.
• In a 5-6 quart crockpot, stir together sausage, pepperoni, sweet pepper, onion, drained mushrooms, drained olives, and if desired, red pepper falkes. Por pasta sauce over sausage mix in cooker.
• Cover and cook on low for 5-6 hours on low, 2-3 hours high.
• ---------------------------------------------------------To seperate for Dinner 2- use a slotted spoon and remove 3 cups of stew mixture and store in airtight container in fridge up to 3 days. Can be frozen for up to 3 months.
• ---------------------------------------------------------To seperate for Dinner 2 being a stew again, remove 3 cups plus sauce and refrigerate as above or freeze as above.
• Thaw in fridge over night before reheating and using for pizza topping, stew mixture, soup mixture, or pasta sauce ingredients. You be the creator for the second dinner.

SLOW COOKER ITALIAN SAUSAGE

Steps:

• Cut sausage into 4 or 5" pieces and brown on all sides in batches in skillet. Saute peppers, onions, and garlic in drippings. Combine tomato puree, sauce, and paste in bowl. Add seasonings and sugar. Layer half of sausage, onions, and peppers in 6qt cooker. Cover with half the tomato mixture. Repeat layers. Cover. Cook on high 1 hour and low 5-6 hours. Serve over pasta or Italian rolls. AWESOME!