Slow Cooker Sausage Puttanesca

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  • Prep Time

    10 mins

  • Cook Time

    4 hrs

  • Total Time

    4 hrs 10 mins

  • Servings

    4

  • Calories

    558 kcal

  • Course

    Main Course

  • Cuisine

    Italian

Slow Cooker Sausage Puttanesca

Come home to a delicious and comforting meal. This hearty Slow Cooker Sausage Puttanesca is served with zoodles. The perfect low-carb weeknight dinner idea.

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Ingredients

Servings
  • 1 lb sausage meat, loose *see notes below

  • 2 teaspoons garlic minced
  • 1/2 onion chopped
  • 6 cups tomato sauce jarred
  • 1 tin flat anchovy fillets drained
  • 20 olives sliced
  • 3 tablespoons capers drained
  • 5 zucchini end removed and peeled

  • 2 teaspoons butter
  • 2 tablespoons Parmesan Cheese
  • 1 teaspoon salt
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Instructions

  1. In a frying pan, begin to sauté the onions, garlic, and anchovies with the butter. 
  2. When they are translucent, add the sausage meat. Brown, and cook through.
  3. Add the sausage meat to the slow cooker insert

  4. Add the tomato sauce
, capers, and olives. Close the lid
  5. Cook on low for 4 hours, or high for 2

  6. Approximately an hour before serving, spiralize the zucchini 
  7. Salt the zucchini noodles over a colander and mix them up. Let them rest for 10 – 15 minutes to release their liquid. 

  8. Using a clean tea towel, line it with kitchen towel and lay the zoodles onto the paper. Gently blot the extra moisture off them. Get them as dry as possible. 

  9. Put them in a bowl and heat them in the microwave for 3 – 4 minutes on high. You don’t want to cook them too long as they will get mushy.
  10. Serve them onto plates, and add the sausage puttanesca sauce on top. Garnish with parmesan cheese.


Notes

  • If you cannot find loose sausage in the trays in the grocers, then buy regular sausage in the casings and split them open and remove the inside sausage meat. Alternatively, you can cook the sausages whole, and then slice in medallions and add them to the sauce in the slow cooker if you prefer. Cooking time in the slow cooker will be the same.If you do not have a spiralizer, you can easily make your own zoodles using a vegetable peeler.
  • Directions: After removing the ends and the peel, use the peeler to peel long thin noodles off the zucchini. Rotate the vegetable as you go, slowly turning it with each “peel”. Do not make noodles with the inner seeds, as they won’t peel nicely and they will fall apart. (plus there’s a lot of moisture in the inner center seeds of the zucchini). Continue on with the salting as usual.

Nutrition Information

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Calories 558kcal (28%) Carbohydrates 30g (10%) Protein 29g (58%) Fat 38g (58%) Saturated Fat 12g (60%) Cholesterol 96mg (32%) Sodium 3798mg (158%) Potassium 2209mg (63%) Fiber 9g (36%) Sugar 22g (44%) Vitamin A 2325IU (47%) Vitamin C 72.1mg (80%) Calcium 163mg (16%) Iron 6.6mg (37%)

Nutrition Facts

Serving: 4Serving

Amount Per Serving

Calories 558 kcal

% Daily Value*

Calories 558kcal 28%
Carbohydrates 30g 10%
Protein 29g 58%
Fat 38g 58%
Saturated Fat 12g 60%
Cholesterol 96mg 32%
Sodium 3798mg 158%
Potassium 2209mg 47%
Fiber 9g 36%
Sugar 22g 44%
Vitamin A 2325IU 47%
Vitamin C 72.1mg 80%
Calcium 163mg 16%
Iron 6.6mg 37%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.

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