In a skillet with medium high heat, cook your ground burger until there is no pink.
In your crockpot, add cooked beef and all ingredients layering them. Minus the mozzarella cheese.
Take fresh basil and cut it with herb scissors or cut into small pieces and place on top with all ingredients.
Stir all ingredients until well combined.
Place lid on crockpot and cook on warm 6-8 hours on low (depending on your slow cooker)
Right before done- Shred 1 cup of mozzarella cheese and set aside
After cooked, lift lid and stir ingredients well and add cheese to the top.
Once you add cheese to the top, put lid back on for about 10 minutes to allow cheese to melt.
Once cheese has melted, it is ready to serve.
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Notes
Crazy Busy Meal Prep Tip:Prep ground burger ahead and freeze in one pound portions to use on meals like this where you can dump and go all ingredients in the slow cooker.Crazy Busy Mama hack... add about 1/4 cup of water and shake up empty sauce jar, this helps to get the rest of the sauce out of the jar. Our family prefers cottage cheese, however feel free to replace with ricotta cheese if you would like. For easy clean up, use a crockpot liner.