Slow Cooker Beef Ragu
Recipe by Stay at Home Mum
Course: EntreeCuisine: ItalianDifficulty: Difficult
Servings
+
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4
servingsPrep time
15
minutesCooking time
8
hoursTotal time
8
hours20
minutes
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Ingredients
.5 kg beef mince
4 pcs Bacon rashers
.4 gram Tomatoes-crushed
1 Brown onion-chopped finely
2 tbsp Olive oil
1 tbsp Garlic-crushed
1 good sized Carrot-peeled and chopped finely
1 Celery stalk-chopped finely
2 tbsp Tomato paste
1 tbsp Red wine
1.5 cup Beef stock (300ml)
1 Bay leaf
Directions
- In a large pot or frypan, heat the olive oil.
- Add the bacon, onion and garlic and cook over medium heat until starting to brown.
- Reduce the heat and add the carrot and celery and cook until soft.
- Pour mixture into the slow cooker.
- Again heat the frypan and brown the mince.
- Pour into the slow cooker.
- Stir in the stock, red wine, tin of tomatoes, tomato paste and spices to taste.
- Cook on LOW for 6 – 8 hours stirring every so often.
Slow Cooker Beef Ragu is a delicious mince mix that goes perfectly with pasta.
It is a little more hearty than our traditional bolognaise sauce – and freezes just beautifully!
Clare Whitfield
Chief Editor
Clare Whitfield is the Editor of Stay at Home Mum and a recognised voice in practical home management for Australian families. Based in the northern suburbs of Sydney, she balances editorial leadership with life as a stay at home mum to two school age children. Her background in home economics and more than a decade of experience in recipe development, family budgeting, and household systems inform her work.

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