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 minutesminutes
Cook Time 8 hourshours
Total Time 8 hourshours20 minutesminutes
Servings 8people
Calories 227kcal
Ingredients
1onion
3cloves garlic
2stalkscelery
1carrot
2lbsground beef see notes
27ozdiced tomatoes or tomato sauce or a mix of bothone big can or 2 small
sea salt
pepper
2bay leaves
1-2beef soup bones
1cupbeef 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.