Recipe: Super Sloppy Sloppy Joes

Ingredients

Super Sloppy Sloppy Joes

Super Sloppy Sloppy Joes

  • 2 lbs freshly ground hamburger meat
  • 1 cup diced red bell pepper
  • 1 cup diced green bell pepper
  • 1 cup diced onion
  • 1/4 cup parsley – chopped
  • 1/2 cup cilantro – chopped
  • 4 cloves garlic – minced
  • 1/8 cup apple cider vinegar
  • 1/8 cup sherry vinegar
  • 1/4 cup brown sugar
  • 1 can tomato paste
  • 2 tbs smoked paprika
  • 1/2 cup orange juice
  • 2 cup water
  • salt and pepper – to taste
  • 1 loaf of bread (I used a garlic loaf of bread. Bread made with whole garlic cloves in the bread itself – my local store has this and most stores have this in the bakery department).
  • 1/2 cup parmesan

Instructions

  1. In a large stock pot add olive oil and butter over medium heat. Add onion, red bell pepper, green bell pepper and cook until the onion is translucent – about 5 minutes.
  2. Add garlic and cook for 1 minute – until the garlic smells delicious.
  3. Add smoked paprika, brown sugar, salt and pepper. Cook for 1 minute.
  4. Add tomato paste and cook for 3 minutes.
  5. Now add all the remaining ingredients.
  6. Bring to boil and reduce to a simmer. Cook for 1 hour (Add additional water if needed while it is cooking). Most of the liquid should have simmered out of the sloppy joe mixture and it should look like sloppy joes now.
  7. Add 1/4 cup cilantro and parsley and cook for 5 more minutes. Remove from heat.
  8. Slice your bread into 1 to 1 1/2 inch thick pieces. Butter both sides liberally and place in oven under the broiler. Watch bread carefully and flip when the top of the bread has browned (do not let it burn). Take bread out of the oven when the 2nd side has browned.
  9. Place 1 or 2 slices of bread on each plate and add freshly grated cheese and sprinkle cilantro over the bread and plate.
  10. Now spoon the sloppy joe mixture over the bread, sprinkle a little bit of cilantro and Parmesan over the top of the sloppy joes and you’re ready to eat.

Variations

You can omit the orange juice and just add enough water to just cover the meat mixture.

I made a spicy version of this by replacing the water and orange juice mixture with a spicy sauce I made in a blender with: 1/2 cup orange juice, 2 cups water, 3 cloves raw garlic, 1 dried ancho chili (sliced, deveined, de-seeded and roasted each side in a pan for 1 minute over medium high heat to bring out the oils) and 4 chipotle peppers.

Cooking time (duration): 80

Number of servings (yield): 4

Meal type: dinner

My rating: 5 stars: ★★★★★

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