Recipe - Ground Turkey Pasta Sauce

One fourth cup Olive oil
1 pound Ground turkey
2 Cloves crushed garlic
1 Bay leaf
1 Finely chopped onion
1 Bell pepper; chopped
1 cup Chopped mushrooms
1 cn (16 oz.) stewed tomatoes
1 cn (8 oz.) tomato paste
One half teaspoon Dry thyme
2 teaspoon Fresh basil or half the
amount dried
One half teaspoon Oregano

Put half the oil on frying pan, add turkey; brown slowly. While meat is
frying, put stewed tomatoes, tomato paste, thyme, basil, oregano, salt and
sugar in crockpot. Stir well and cook on low heat. When turkey is brown (do
not overcook, turkey will finish cooking in sauce) add to crock pot. Using
the rest of the oil, fry onion, pepper, garlic and bay leaf until softened.
Add to crock pot with 1 cup of water and the raw, chopped mushrooms. Cook
on low 4 hours or more. Serve with your favorite pasta.
Posted to recipeludigest Volume 01 Number 342 by James and Susan Kirkland
kirkland@gj.net on Dec 05, 1997