Sloppy Joes
By: Ian Sherman
Ingredients
- ☐2 medYellow onion
- ☐2Green bell pepper
- ☐3 lbsGround beef
- ☐6 oz canTomato paste
- ☐8Hamburger buns
- ☐8 ozBaby Bella mushrooms, sliced
- ☐-Pepper jack cheese, sliced
Ingredients you probably have
- ☐Butter
- ☐Olive oil
- ☐Minced garlic
- ☐Mild chili powder
- ☐Chili flakes
- ☐Ketchup
- ☐Yellow mustard
- ☐Worcestershire Sauce
Equipment needed
- ☐LargeDutch oven (iron or nonstick)
- ☐~Toaster oven
- Chop yellow onion and finely chop the bell pepper.
- Heat in a Dutch oven:
- 1 tbsp butter
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- Ground pepper to taste
- Add yellow onion and bell pepper to Dutch oven.
- Season with salt.
- Fry until onion is translucent.
- Add 3 tbsp garlic, fry for about 30 seconds.
- Remove the aromatics from the pan and reserve. Leave the fat.
- Add the ground beef to the Dutch oven.
- Season with salt.
- Break up and fry until browned.
- While the meat is browning, finely chop the mushrooms.
- Add the following ingredients and fry for about a minute:
- 3 tbsp Chili powder
- ½ tsp Chili flakes
- Tomato paste
- Add into the pot then mix thoroughly:
- The saved, cooked onion and bell pepper.
- The chopped mushrooms.
- 1 cup Ketchup
- 1/3 cup water
- 2 tbsp Worcestershire sauce
- Cook and stir until the sauce is evenly distributed and thickened.
- Toast buns to desired level of brownness.
- Right before serving, mix in 3 tbsp yellow mustard.
- Spoon over toasted buns and thick slices of pepper jack cheese.