Slow Cooker Pasta

Slow Cooker Pasta. Never cooking pasta on the stove again! After getting some advice on here before i put the dry penne pasta in with bolognaise sauce in slow cooker. Its fantastic! Pasta has soaked up the flavour cooked to perfection!

Ingredients:

500 gram beef mince
1 onion diced
2 carrots grated
1 cup mushrooms diced
1/4 green capsicum diced
a small tin of corn kernels
2 teaspoon minced garlic
1 tin diced tomato
1 jar spaghetti sauce
1/4 cup of each (worstershire sauce, soy sauce, BBQ, tomato)
1tablespoon brown sugar
1 tablespoon mixed herbs

Directions:

All in cooker on low 5 hours. I added about 1.5 cup pasta then 1/2 cup of boiled water. Cooked for further 30 minutes. Stirred in 1/2 cup parmesan cheese before serving!

*( Put the pasta in 30 mins at the end…. so cooked for 5 hours then added the pasta. Left for another 30 mins and pasta was cooked. Mince went in raw )*

This served 2 adults and 2 kids plus prob another full dinner for us all again. I used my new cooker i think its a 5 liter cooker.

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Slow Cooker Pasta Recipe Questions and Answers

Question:                   Did you put the dry pasta in at the beginning or 30 minutes before the end.

Answer:                     30 mins before the end. Put in and stirred through . Didn’t think it would cook that quickly but it did! !

Question:                   What jar of spaghetti sauce do you use?

Answer:                     One my husband got from Aldi.

Question:                  Did you brown your mince on the stove before putting in the slow cooker?

Answer:                     No just put straight in.

Question:                 So, just break in pieces, then chuck in with rest of ingredients?

Answer:                    Yup. I tend to put it in and use a fork to mush it a bit.

Question:                 Did you brown your mine first.?

Answer:                    No put in raw at the beginning.

Question:                 When u put the pasta in did u turn it up high or leave on low plz?

Answer:                   Left on low.

Question:                How long did you cook it all.

Answer:                  Cooked the bolognaise sauce 5 hours added pasta and cooked for further 30 mins on.

Question:               Sorry, raw pasta. You added water… could I add beef stock?

Answer:                  I’m thinking next time i might try stock instead as the water whilst it did get absorbed by the pasta was a little less flavour some.