Slow-Cooker Beef and Onion Ragu

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Appears in Cook's Country June/July 2016

Onions are the surprising key to this dish’s rich flavor, but in the slow cooker, they misbehaved.

SERVES 6 to 8

TIME 5 to 6 hours on high or 8 to 9 hours on low

Slow-Cooker Beef and Onion Ragu

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

We capitalize don the slow cooker’s low, slow, moist cooking environment to make this meaty peasant-style pasta sauce. The long simmer required to break down the collagen and melt the fatty pockets of chuck-eye roast is easy work in the slo...

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