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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  European >> Italian >> Italian

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. Cook onions and carrots in oil in large nonstick skillet over medium heat. | 2. Stir and cook for 4-5 minutes until tender. Add mushrooms and bell pepper and stir. Place vegetables into bottom of 4-5 quart crock pot and add remaining ingredients except spaghetti pasta and cheese. | 3. Cover crock pot and cook on low for 7-8 hours. | 4. Uncover, stir thoroughly, then leave cover off crock pot and turn heat to high. | 5. Cook, uncovered, for 1 more hour to thicken sauce. | 6. At this point the sauce can be frozen. Divide into smaller portions and cool in refrigerator. | 7. Wrap, label, and freeze the sauce up to 3 months. | 8. To thaw and reheat, thaw sauce overnight in refrigerator. | 9. Pour into skillet and heat over medium heat, stirring frequently, about 15-20 minutes or until sauce bubbles and is thoroughly heated. | 10. You can even cook the pasta until almost tender and combine it with the cooled sauce. Freeze as directed, and thaw as directed. You may need to add 1/4-1/3 cup water when reheating if freezing the pasta in the sauce. | 11. Or you can go ahead and serve sauce with cooked spaghetti and grated Parmesan cheese. 6 servings. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
olive oil	2	tablespoons		238.68	0.0	0.0	27.0
onion	1		chopped	64.0	14.944	1.76	0.16
carrot	2		peeled chopped	104.96	24.5248	2.3808	0.6144
mushroom	2	cups	sliced	-	-	-	-
green bell pepper	1		chopped	29.19	6.394	1.0008	0.3753
tomato seasoning	2	cans	diced undrained	-	-	-	-
tomato sauce	15	ounces		480.5325	76.5025	25.0472	8.3349
tomato paste	6	ounces		139.4795	32.1653	7.3482	0.7995
sugar	2	teaspoons		36.708	9.1816	0.0	0.0
salt	1/2	teaspoon		-	-	-	-
pepper	1/4	teaspoon		1.4432	0.3677	0.0597	0.0187
spaghetti	12	ounces		105.4601	23.5074	2.1772	1.9391
parmesan cheese				-	-	-	-

- Means that suitable USDA nutrition profile could not be mapped for this ingredient-unit combination.