Traditional Sloppy Joe Recipe (bun optional)
Delicious Sloppy Joe recipe prepared traditional style with fermented sauce that retains probiotics and enzymes for optimal nutrition. Serve with or without the bun.
Ingredients
- 1 pound ground beef preferably grassfed
- 1 small onion preferably organic
- 1 garlic clove preferably organic
- 2 Tbl butter preferably grassfed
- 1/2 tsp sea salt
- 1/4 tsp pepper
- 1/2 - 1 cup homemade fermented ketchup or organic ketchup in a pinch
- 1/2 cup frozen peas optional, preferably organic
- 1/4 cup raisins optional, preferably organic
- hamburger buns optional
Instructions
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Melt butter in frying pan on medium-high heat. Add onion finely chopped and cook until it begins to caramelize (5-10 mins).
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Mix in crushed garlic, salt and pepper and mix thoroughly. Stir intermittently for 3 minutes to ensure garlic is cooked but not burned.
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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.
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Add optional peas and reduce heat to medium-low for 5 minutes to finish cooking all meat.
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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.
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Stir in ketchup (and raisins if desired) and mix thoroughly. Make sure the pan is off the heat.
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Serve Sloppy Joe over cauliflower rice, soaked rice, or sourdough buns as desired.
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Refrigerate leftovers when room temperature. Reheat gently not exceeding 117 °F/ 47 °C to preserve enzymes and probiotics in cultured ketchup.