Traces Not So Sloppy Joes Food

NOT-SO-SLOPPY JOES

Steps:

• Heat the oil in a large saucepan over medium heat. Add the onion, garlic, and red pepper. Sauté until fragrant, about 3 minutes.
• Add the ground beef and brown, about 5 minutes.
• Stir in the tomato paste, chili powder, cumin, salt, black pepper, and cinnamon. Simmer, stirring occasionally, until thickened slightly, about 12 minutes.
• Spoon onto the buns. Sprinkle each with the Cheddar and top with a dollop of the sour cream.

CLAIRE'S NOT-SO-SLOPPY JOE'S

Steps:

• Brown Hamburger over medium high heat for 5 minutes.
• Add diced onions, green peppers, celery and garlic.
• Brown for an additional 5 minutes.
• Drain.
• Stir in V8, Tomato Soup, Ketchup, Mustard and Brown Sugar.
• Season with pepper (and salt if desired) to taste.
• Bring to light simmer for 30 minutes uncovered.
• READY TO EAT.
• placing in refrigerator overnight and reheating tends to make the flavor "pop" a bit more.

SLOPPY JOES

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 200 degrees F.
• Heat the olive oil in a large pot over medium-high heat. Add the bell pepper, onion and a pinch of salt and cook, stirring, until softened, about 7 minutes. Add the garlic, cumin and paprika and cook for another minute. Add the turkey and sprinkle it with 1 1/2 teaspoons salt. Cook, breaking up with a wooden spoon or spatula, until browned all the way through. Add the tomato paste, harissa, brown sugar and tomatoes. Simmer over medium heat for 20 minutes. Stir in the preserved lemon. Taste and adjust the seasoning as desired.
• To serve, stack the pitas and wrap in in foil. Heat the oven until warm, a few minutes. Cut the tops off and fill with the turkey mixture. Top with the pickles, feta and parsley.

SLOPPY JOES

Steps:

• Heat the oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Add the onion and cook, stirring occasionally, until soft, about 5 minutes. Add the peppers, garlic and marjoram and continue to cook until the peppers are tender, about 5 minutes. Add the meat, increase the heat to medium-high and cook, breaking the meat up, until no longer pink, about 5 minutes.
• Spoon off any excess fat from the pan and discard. Add the tomato sauce, sugar, Worcestershire, mustard, vinegar and 1/2 cup of water and stir to combine. Bring to a simmer, cover and cook until the flavors have blended and the sauce has thickened slightly, 15 to 20 minutes. (If the mixture appears to be too dry add up to 1/4 cup additional water.) Season with the salt and pepper.
• Serve the beef mixture on toasted hamburger buns topped with shredded Cheddar and pickle chips.

THE BEST SLOPPY JOES

Steps:

• Melt the butter in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add the onions and peppers and cook, stirring occasionally, until softened and starting to caramelize in some spots, 6 to 7 minutes. Add the garlic and cook, stirring, until fragrant, about 1 minute. Stir in the beef and cook, breaking up the meat with a wooden spoon or spatula, until it is browned, no longer pink in the middle and cooked through, 7 to 8 minutes.
• Stir in the tomato sauce, ketchup, brown sugar, Worcestershire sauce, mustard, red wine vinegar, paprika, cayenne pepper, 1 teaspoon salt and a generous amount of black pepper and simmer, stirring occasionally, until thickened and heated through, 5 to 6 minutes. Spoon the meat onto the toasted buns.

SUPER SLOPPY JOES

Steps:

• Heat a large skillet over medium high heat. Add oil and meat to the pan. Spread the meat around the pan and begin to break it up. Combine brown sugar and steak seasoning. Add sugar and spice mixture to the skillet and combine. When the meat has browned, add onion and red peppers to the skillet. Reduce heat to medium and cook onions, peppers, red wine vinegar and Worcestershire sauce with meat for 5 minutes. Add tomato sauce and paste to pan. Stir to combine. Reduce heat to simmer and cook Sloppy Joe mixture 5 minutes longer. Using a large spoon or ice cream scoop, pile sloppy meat onto toasted, buttered bun bottoms and cover with bun tops. Serve with your favorite sides or sliced tomatoes seasoned with salt and pepper, dill pickles and Deviled Potato Salad. Have plenty of napkins on hand!
• Boil potatoes in water seasoned with coarse salt until they are tender, about 10 minutes. Drain cooked potatoes and return to the warm pot to dry them out. Let the potatoes stand 2 minutes, then spread potatoes out on to a cookie sheet to quick-cool them.
• In the bottom of a medium mixing bowl, grate 1/4 onion using a hand grater. Add mustard and mayonnaise, paprika and cayenne pepper sauce to the grated onion and stir to combine. Add potatoes to the bowl and stir to evenly distribute dressing. Season potato salad with salt and pepper and taste to adjust your seasonings. Top servings of salad with chopped scallions.

NOT SO SLOPPY JOES

Steps:

• Heat the olive oil for one minute and then sauté the onion, celery, pepper and oregano for 4 minutes or until soft.
• Crumble in the ground beef, breaking it up with a spoon. Cook until meat is brown.
• Stir in the remaining ingredients through the black pepper and cook for 6 minutes. Add Tabasco, if using, and cooked until bubbling and heated through.
• Spoon over toasted rolls and serve.

SLOPPY JOES

Steps:

• Dice the onion and celery.
• Brown the ground chuck with the onion and celery.
• Add salt and pepper to taste.
• When ground beef is browned, drain off all grease.
• Add the ketchup, brown sugar, vinegar and worcestershire sauce.
• Cook together.
• Serve on a bun and enjoy!

SCOTT'S SLOPPY JOES

Steps:

• Brown ground beef in saute pan over medium heat.
• While beef is browning, dice 1/2 of a medium yellow onion (or 1 whole small onion) and mince garlic cloves.
• When beef is browned add onions and garlic and cook until onions are translucent.
• Add remaining ingredients and stir well.
• Simmer over medium low heat until sauce is at desired consistency.
• Scoop onto soft rolls and enjoy.

SLOPPY JOES

Steps:

• Brown hamburger.
• Drain beef well.
• Add the rest of the ingredients.
• Simmer at least 30 minutes.
• Serve on hamburger buns.