You’ll love these Slow Cooker and Instant Pot Pasta Sauce Recipes, and homemade pasta sauce tastes better, and it’s less expensive and easy to make! And this post has 20 different recipes for pasta sauce, and whether you use garden tomatoes or tomatoes from a can, making pasta sauce will make your house smell amazing!
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I love making homemade pasta sauce, and using the slow cooker or the Instant Pot for pasta sauce turns it into something that doesn’t need to be watched. And there are so many delicious-sounding ideas in this collection of Slow Cooker and Instant Pot Pasta Sauce Recipes!
And if you get a surplus of garden tomatoes, making pasta sauce is a great way to preserve them and using the Slow Cooker or the Instant Pot won’t heat up your kitchen! Wouldn’t you love to have pasta sauce in the freezer on a night when you need a quick dinner?
What pasta sauce recipes will you find here?
This post has 20 amazing pasta sauce recipes, including vegetarian, sausage, ground beef, and ground turkey sauces and some sauces with fun ingredients like fennel, capers, sun-dried tomatoes, peppers, mushrooms, and eggplant.
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More Slow Cooker or Instant Pot Pasta:
Instant Pot Pasta Sauce from Kalyn’s Kitchen has sausage, tomatoes, and herbs, and this sauce is so delicious! Serve over your favorite pasta, or use zucchini noodles for a low-carb option!
Slow Cooker Turkey Bolognese Pasta Sauce from Jeanette’s Healthy Living can be made with fresh tomatoes or canned tomatoes, and this one has some finely chopped carrot and celery as well as a little red wine to flavor the sauce.
This Best Instant Pot Spaghetti and Meat Sauce from Paint the Kitchen Red has a homemade sauce made from ground beef, beef broth, crushed tomatoes, tomato paste and plenty of dried herbs.
Healthy Slow Cooker Spaghetti Meat Sauce from The Food Charlatan has veggies hidden in the sauce!
Homemade Instant Pot Spaghetti Sauce from The Typical Mom is quick and easy to make and this uses whole and diced canned tomatoes, tomato sauce, and tomato paste for plenty of tomato flavor!
Slow Cooker Rustic Italian Marinara Sauce from The Yummy Life is a post that’s loaded with information and this sauce has garlic and a touch of red wine!
Instant Pot Bolognese Sauce from Six Sisters’ Stuff caught my eye because it uses my favorite turkey Italian Sausage, and this sauce sounds delicious!
Slow Cooker Meatballs and Marinara from Emily Bites includes a sauce that uses crushed tomatoes, tomato sauce, and tomato paste.
Easy Instant Pot Spaghetti Sauce from 365 Days of Slow + Pressure Cooking uses crushed tomatoes and other ingredients you probably have on hand and you can eat this over pasta, or use spaghetti squash like Karen Did!
And finally, Becca says this Vegetarian Slow Cooker Tomato Sauce from Easy Cheesy Vegetarian can be used with a variety of different recipes.
More Slow Cooker and Instant Pot Pasta Sauce:
- Slow Cooker Bolognese Sauce from The Kitchn
- Instant Pot Spaghetti Sauce from Sweet and Savory Meals
- Slow Cooker Pasta Meat Sauce with Ground Turkey from The Yummy Life
- Instant Pot Homemade Spaghetti Sauce from 365 Days of Slow + Pressure Cooking
- Slow Cooker Bolognese Sauce from On Top of Spaghetti
- Instant Pot Tomato Basil Sauce from Instant Pot Eats
- Slow Cooker Homemade Spaghetti Meat Sauce from Kitchen Parade
- Instant Pot Spaghetti Sauce from Spend with Pennies
- Slow Cooker Spaghetti Sauce from Budget Bytes
- Instant Pot Spaghetti Sauce from Bless This Mess
Mary Seltzer says
Thank you for all the recipes. What a nice selection. I will be making these sauces shortly.
Kalyn says
Thanks Mary; so glad it's useful for you. How can you decide which one to try though!
Lydia (The Perfect Pantry) says
This reminds me that it's time to start buying end-of-season tomatoes and making sauce for the winter freezer!
Kalyn says
Lydia, I want to make some too!
Debby@Just Breathe says
Thank you 🙂
Kalyn says
Debbie, so glad it's useful for you!
Kalyn says
Kendra, good to hear!
Kendra Bailey Morris says
Love doing pasta sauce in the slow cooker. I recently made our family's recipe for Sunday meat gravy with sausages and meatballs. It was actually better than when I've made it stovetop!
Kendra
Kalyn says
Thanks Karen. I have only done it once but I can tell I'll be doing it a lot more!
Karen says
I love making sauces in the slow cooker. Especially when I have bountiful produce to use. It's so delicious and easy!