How can you make sloppy joes w/o going to the store to buy the sauce?!
Answers: How can you make sloppy joes w/o going to the store to buy the sauce?
SLOPPY JOES - FROM SCRATCH (SORT OF)
2 pounds lean ground beef
1 medium onion, chopped
2 cans tomatoes, diced in juice
2 cans sliced mushrooms
frozen vegetables - to your taste
butter for browning meat, mushrooms and onions
For vegetables, I use frozen whole okra and french cut green beans.
In heavy fry pan, brown onions and mushrooms only until golden.
Add meat and cook until crumbly. Add canned tomatoes. Add frozen vegetables.
Mix with wooden spoon Cook covered over low/medioum heat until veggies are cooked.
SLOPPY JOES
1 lb. hamburger
1/4 cup chopped onion
1/4 cup chopped green pepper
1 (8oz) can tomato sauce
1 tablespoon mustard
1/4 cup brown sugar (add more or less to taste)
1/4 cup ketchup
Brown hamburger with onion and green pepper. Drain off grease. Add remaining ingredients and simmer slowly to desired thickness and flavor.
Recipe can be doubled, tripled, etc. for large crowds.
use tomato sauce or diced tomates ??
I use Chicken Gumbo soup.
ketchup and mustard, maybe a little bbq sauce!!
Of course, brown the ground beef first, then drain and put aside. Use 1 cup ketchup, a tablespoon of mustard, and a little brown sugar -- add a dash of Worcestershire sauce if you have it -- and finely dice an onion. Add it all together first, then put it in the pan where you browned the beef, then once it's cooked to a slight boil, add the beef.
Betty Crocker "Sassy Sloppy Joes"
1 pound lean ground beef
1 medium onion, chopped (1/2 cup)
1/3 cup chopped celery stalk
1/3 cup chopped green bell pepper
1/3 cup ketchup
1/4 cup water
1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/8 teaspoon red pepper sauce
6 hamburger buns, split and toasted
1. Cook beef and onion in 10-inch skillet over medium heat 8 to 10 minutes, stirring occasionally, until beef is brown; drain. Stir in remaining ingredients except buns.
2. Cover and cook over low heat 10 to 15 minutes or just until vegetables are tender. Fill buns with mixture.
Back in the olden days, say, 1974, many people made sloppy joes without resorting to canned sauces. Manwich was available, but rather bourgeois: the normal people were cutting coupons to pay for OPEC's oil embargo.
The typical sloppy joe routine included seasoning ground meat (and onions and peppers if you dare) with various condiments to give a rounded, sweet-sour-tangy flavor. Here are some things people might reach for:
Ketchup, bbq sauce, mustard, (brown) sugar, chopped sweet pickles (or relish), condensed tomato soup, tomato sauce (not too much), definitely a spoonful or 2 of worchestershire. You just plop it in and simmer (and taste) until you get the flavor you like. If it seems too dry, add a half-cup of water. My mother, who had a typical 70's aversion to fresh foods, used dried onion flakes, and when feeling bold, would sneak in some garlic powder.