The Best Sloppy Joes

The Best Sloppy Joes

(Mel's kitchen cafe)

INGREDIENTS

• 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
• 2 onions, roughly chopped
• 2 ½ pounds ground beef or lean ground turkey
• 2 tablespoons tomato paste
• 2/3 cup smoky BBQ sauce (or this awesome homemade version)
• ½ cup ketchup
• ¼ cup Worcestershire sauce
• ¼ cup soy sauce
• Freshly ground black pepper
• 8 to 12 rolls or buns

DIRECTIONS

1. Preheat oven to 300 degrees.
2. Heat the oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Add the onions and cook, stirring, until they start to turn translucent, about 4 minutes. Add the beef and cook, stirring and breaking up the meat, until it is finely crumbled, the liquid boils off and the meat begins to brown, about 10 minutes. Drain the grease off the meat and onions. Stir in the tomato paste, and keep stirring until the meat is coated. Add the BBQ sauce, ketchup, Worcestershire, soy sauce, and pepper, and bring to a boil. Cook until the sauce is slightly thickened, 4 to 5 minutes. You can make the sloppy joe meat up to 2 days in advance and reheat it over low heat or in the microwave.
3. Wrap the rolls in aluminum foil and warm in the oven for about 10 minutes. Serve the sloppy joes hot with the warmed rolls.

******I'm going to 2/3 this recipe per the yield size.

Labels (25): The Best Sloppy Joes:  PRECOOKED -  Reheat sloppy joe mixture in pan.  Wrap the rolls/buns in aluminum foil and warm in the oven for about 10 minutes.  Serve the sloppy joes hot with warmed buns/rolls.  5-5-16

Labels (25): The Best Sloppy Joes  5-5-16