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Healthy Home Economist / Archives / Recipes / Grassfed Recipes / Grass Fed Beef Recipes / Traditional Sloppy Joe Recipe (bun optional)

Traditional Sloppy Joe Recipe (bun optional)

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  • Homemade Sloppy Joe with Probiotic Rich Sauce
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In my experience, fermented food is one aspect of Traditional Diets that is difficult to consistently incorporate into family meals with young children in the home.

Fermented beverages like kombucha aren’t too difficult as they are typically tasty, fizzy and delightful.

Probiotic rich, digestion soothing fermented foods, on the other hand, are a completely different animal for children to accept.  The inherently sour and sometimes tart flavors seem to overwhelm their young taste buds and turn them off even in the small, condimental amounts used by Ancestral Societies.

I’ve had better luck over the years getting creative when a brickwall is firmly erected rather than trying to force the issue.

Homemade Sloppy Joe with Probiotic Rich Sauce

There is no doubt that a tasty sloppy joe sandwich is one of the most beloved of all time for children.  In our home, I make it with grassfed beef and lacto-fermented ketchup to sneak it into the children’s dinner in an enjoyable way that they don’t mind at all.

The trick to this particular sloppy joes recipe is to add homemade fermented ketchup so that the probiotic rich sauce isn’t actually cooked and therefore retains all the beneficial probiotics and enzymes once served at the dinner table.

Try this homemade sloppy joe recipe if you’ve been encountering obstacles introducing digestion enhancing fermented foods to your family. This is one dish they won’t complain about at all!

Traditional Sloppy Joe Recipe (bun optional)
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Traditional Sloppy Joe Recipe (bun optional)

This traditional sloppy joe recipe using an easily made enzyme rich fermented sauce is a tasty and easy way to get probiotics into your family at the dinner table. Use with or without buns as desired.

Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 10 minutes
Total Time 20 minutes
Servings 4
Author Sarah Pope

Ingredients

  • 1 pound ground beef preferably grassfed
  • 1 small onion preferably organic
  • 1 clove garlic preferably organic
  • 2 Tbl butter preferably grassfed
  • 1/2 tsp sea salt
  • 1/4 tsp pepper
  • 1/2 - 1 cup ketchup preferably homemade or organic
  • 1/2 cup frozen peas optional, preferably organic
  • 1/4 cup raisins optional, preferably organic
  • organic hamburger buns optional

Instructions

  1. Melt butter in frying pan on medium-high heat.  Add onion finely chopped and cook until it begins to caramelize (5-10 mins).

  2. Mix in crushed garlic, salt and pepper and mix thoroughly - stir intermittently for 3 minutes to ensure garlic is cooked but not burned.

  3. Add ground beef mixing in as you go to be sure it doesn’t clump in the heat. Stir continuously for 5 minutes to ensure meat mixes evenly with onion and garlic and begins to simmer uniformly across the whole pan.

  4. Add optional peas and reduce heat to medium-low for 5 minutes to finish cooking all meat.

  5. Remove the pan from the heat and let sit for a few minutes to cool slightly. Check with a digital food thermometer to ensure temperature is at or below 117 F/ 47 C before adding fermented ketchup.

  6. Stir in ketchup (and raisins if desired) and mix thoroughly. Make sure the pan is off the heat - allow to sit for 5 minutes more while still warm but not hot to mix the flavors.

  7. Serve the sloppy joes immediately over cauliflower rice, sprouted or sourdough buns or alone as desired. Refrigerate leftover sloppy joes after a complete cooldown.

  8. Refrigerate leftovers after a complete cooldown. Reheat gently not exceeding 117 F/ 47 C to preserve enzymes and probiotics in fermented ketchup.

If you’ve tried this recipe using a fermented sloppy joe sauce already, what did you think?  Please let us know your thoughts in the comments section.

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Category: GAPS Recipes, Grass Fed Beef Recipes, Low Carb Recipes
Sarah Pope

Sarah Pope MGA has been a Health and Nutrition Educator since 2002. She is a summa cum laude graduate in Economics from Furman University and holds a Master’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania.

She is the author of three books: the bestseller Get Your Fats Straight, Traditional Remedies for Modern Families, and Living Green in an Artificial World.

Her four eBooks Good Diet…Bad Diet, Real Food Fermentation, Ketonomics, and Ancestrally Inspired Dairy-Free Recipes are available for complimentary download via Healthy Home Plus.

Her mission is dedicated to helping families effectively incorporate the principles of ancestral diets within the modern household. She is a sought after lecturer around the world for conferences, summits, and podcasts.

Sarah was awarded Activist of the Year in 2010 at the International Wise Traditions Conference, subsequently serving on the Board of Directors of the nutrition nonprofit the Weston A. Price Foundation for seven years.

Her work has been covered by numerous independent and major media including USA Today, ABC, and NBC among many others.

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Comments (57)

  1. Crystal

    Nov 24, 2022 at 6:09 am

    5 stars
    Is this still considered GAPS legal if you serve the sloppy joes on the sourdough buns you tagged with it? Thank you!

    Reply
    • Sarah Pope

      Nov 24, 2022 at 9:41 am

      No grains even sourdough is included in the GAPS diet.

  2. Hibber

    Jul 16, 2014 at 7:15 pm

    I just made this exact recipe, and served with steamed broccoli. Delicious, easy and quick! Next time, I might add some chopped carrot.

    Reply
  3. peuterey hombre

    Dec 13, 2013 at 8:10 pm

    Hoy en día el vestido de línea de la marea es la clase de tipo dulce, vestido con un párrafo corto con chaqueta de sombrero de destello abajo, hará que la gente se sienta una estética elegante. Las personas con una falda de hojas de loto, a la temporada tranquila trae un ambiente juvenil similares.

    Reply
  4. mike

    Mar 26, 2013 at 9:30 pm

    anyone manages to actually ferment turmeric on its own//

    Reply
    • cl

      Oct 15, 2013 at 2:20 pm

      No, but we buy fermented capsules to take.

  5. Kat

    Dec 2, 2012 at 3:25 am

    I agree. While I may not agree with everything Oliver has to say, I think he still has the right to speak his mind and share his ‘knowledge’ with this community without being called annoying 🙂

    Reply
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