SAUSAGE AND BEAN SLOW COOKER DINNER

Sausage and Bean Slow Cooker Dinner image

This hearty slow cooker dinner will fill your kitchen with a delicious aroma and isn't that same old chicken and cream-of-something slow cooker meal. Serve it with a crisp green salad and a loaf of crunchy bread for a stick-to-your-ribs dinner. This tastes better the longer it cooks, so letting it cook on Low for an entire work day will only improve the taste.

Provided by janet7th

Categories Meat and Poultry Recipes Pork Sausage

Time 4h30m

Yield 6

Number Of Ingredients 10

Ingredients

1 tablespoon vegetable oil
1 pound pork sausage links
1 onion, chopped
1 ½ cups beef stock
1 (14.5 ounce) can tomatoes
2 tablespoons tomato puree
1 tablespoon hot pepper sauce (such as Tabasco®)
4 carrots, cut in chunks
1 (14 ounce) can garbanzo beans, drained and rinsed
1 (14 ounce) can kidney beans, rinsed and drained

Steps:

Heat oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Cook the sausage until well browned, 5 to 7 minutes.
Stir in the onion; cook and stir until lightly browned, 5 to 7 minutes more.
Remove the sausages, and cut them into 1 1/2-inch to 2-inch pieces.
Pour the beef stock, tomatoes, tomato puree, and hot sauce into the skillet with the onion and bring the mixture to a simmer, scraping up any brown bits from the bottom.
Place the carrots into a slow cooker, followed by the garbanzo beans and kidney beans.
Arrange the sausage pieces on top.
Pour the sauce from the skillet into the slow cooker.
Cook on Low for 4 to 6 hours.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 391.9 calories, Carbohydrate 35.6 g, Cholesterol 59.8 mg, Fat 15.5 g, Fiber 9.3 g, Protein 27.4 g, SaturatedFat 4.9 g, Sodium 1037.3 mg, Sugar 6.3 g