Sloppy Joes

This recipe came from my main man (fellow food blogger, and Chef) John - via http://foodwishes.blogspot.com/2010/03/sloppy-joes-recipe-video.html Please check it out. If not for the step by step video, then for the excerpt on Sloppy Joes.

Visit his entire and up-to-date blog by clicking HERE.

Anyways, staying on subject but switching gears a little - I can't make a blog about Sloppy Joes without including a picture of this guy:

Let's all head to "Lunch Lady Land!" Shall we?

Ingredients:

1lb. 93/7 Ground Beef

1 Onion
1/2 Green Pepper
2 Cloves Garlic

2C Water
3/4C Ketchup
2Tbl Brown Sugar
1tsp Mustard
1/4tsp. Worcestershire

1 1/2tsp Salt
1/2tsp ground Pepper

Directions:
Dice onion, green pepper, and garlic. Add ground beef and onion to a cold pan. Turn heat to medium. Cook for 15min. Add garlic. Add green pepper. Cook for 4-5min. Deglaze with 1C water. Add ketchup, brown sugar, mustard, Worcestershire, salt, and pepper. Stir. Add 1C water. Bring to a simmer. Turn heat to med-low. Cook for 35-45min.

Dice onion.

Dice half of a green pepper.

Chop 2 cloves of garlic.

Vedge prepped. 

To a cold, unheated, not preheated, burner off underneath, pan - Add beef. I left the wrapper on for a dramatic effect, since adding cold meat to a cold pan is pretty much weird in the world of cooking.

This pic is just to prove a point

Remove wrapper. Add beef & onion. 

Turn heat on to medium. Break up meat with a spatula. As Chef John likes to say: "Get a-cookin-and-a-crumblin."

Break up any visible clumps.

Continue cooking and breaking up the meat.

 

after 5min. cooking.

after 10min. cooking.

after 15min. cooking.

After 15min. of "a-cookin-and-a-crumblin" the meat mixture should look crumbly as ever.

Add garlic. Stir through, and cook for a min.

Add green pepper. Stir through, and cook for 4-5min.

Deglaze pan with 1C of water.

Scrape the bottom of the pan.

Add ketchup, brown sugar, Worcetershire, mustard, salt & pepper. 

Stir.

Add 1C water. 

Stir, bring back to a simmer.

Once simmering, lower heat to med-low. Cook for 30min. 

Starting out.

after 10min.

after 20 min.

after 30min.

After 30min. cooking time, the Sloppy Joe mixture is almost done. Keep a close eye on it, and after about 5-7min (10min. tops) the mixture will be finished.

Of course, the true test is if the mixture is able to be piled high w/o falling off the spatula.

As an avid stickler for authenticity, I of course used an ice cream scoop w/a spring-action handle to scoop and serve.

 
 Mound a fair amount onto the bottom bun.

Compress ever so slightly.

Top it off with the bun's lid.

Eat up!

"Have some more suhhh-loppy Joes!"