Crock Pot Italian Sausage Recipes

Steps:

• Place water, sausage and green onions in crock pot.
• Add steak sauce, red pepper flakes, Italian seasoning and salt.
• Cover with lid and cook on low for 6-8 hours or on high for 3 hours.
• Stir in uncooked rice and tomatoes with juice.
• Cover and cook an additional 1 hour.

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.

Steps:

• Place pork chops and sausage in a 5- or 6-qt. slow cooker. Place tomatoes, tomato paste, Italian seasoning, garlic and pepper flakes in a food processor; pulse until chunky. Pour over meats. Cook, covered, on low 4 hours., Add onion and peppers to slow cooker. Cook, covered, on low 2-3 hours longer or until pork is tender, a thermometer inserted in sausages reads 160°, and vegetables are crisp-tender. Remove pork chops and sausages from slow cooker. Remove pork from bones; discard bones. Shred meat with two forks and cut sausages into 2-in. pieces; return to slow cooker. Serve on buns with cheese.

Steps:

• Place sausage in slow cooker sprayed with cooking spray.
• Top with remaining ingredients; cover with lid.
• Cook on LOW 6 to 8 hours (or on HIGH 3 to 4 hours).

Steps:

• Place water and sausage in a skillet.
• Bring to a boil for 10 minutes.
• Place sausage without water in crock pot.
• Place onion and green pepper on top of sausage and then pour spaghetti sauce over everything.
• Cook on low for 6 to 8 hours.
• Serve with your favorite bread.

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!

Steps:

• In a large nonstick skillet, brown sausage links. Transfer to a 3 quart slow cooker.
• Add the spaghetti sauce, tomatoes, green pepper, onion, garlic and Italian seasoning; mix well. Cover and cook on low for 6 hours.
• Stir in pasta. Cover and cook on high for 30-40 minutes or until pasta is tender.

Steps:

• Brown sausages in skillet or on grill.
• Peel and slice onions. Put in bottom of 6qt crock pot.
• If using peppers, seed and slice vertically. Layer on top of the onions.
• Pour frozen spinach into crock pot.
• Arrange sausages on top of the spinach.
• Pour spaghetti sauce evenly over top of everything.
• Cook on high for 2 hours then on low for 3-4 hours. OR, thaw the spinach first and cook on low for 6+ hours.
• Serve over pasta, over rice, or with a hearty, crusty, bread. Pass grated Parmesan at the table.
• Note -- If preparing for a party or a potluck you may wish to slice the sausage and make 2 layers of ingredients to better control the portions. This version could have shredded mozzarella incorporated into the layers and on top.