Meat sauce/sloppy joes recipe

Jewishfoodie

Mon, Jan 22 2018, 10:20 am

Here's my recipe:

1 large eggplant,
2 medium squash
1 large onion
Fresh garlic
Salt
Pepper to taste

Chop up all veggies into cubes (onions should be small but the rest can be regular cubes) and fry or bake until its a mush, adding olive oil when it beings sticking to pan. Do it covered to cut fry time in half.

When done, add a large can of tomato paste and a third of a cup of sugar. Cook over flame to combine properly. (you can add less sugar if you wish; keep tasting to get the flavor you like)

In another frying pan, heat oil and then take a package of ground beef or turkey, add some salt for flavor, and brown the meat well, all the while "chopping" it into tiny pieces. (it will fry into one big piece if u don't keep breaking it up)
When you're looking at tiny pieces of ground beef, combine the two.

If you like it more liquidy, add some tomato sauce and adjust flavor so it's not acidic.

Keep tasting as u make it so you get "your flavor" .

It's awesome

I serve it over pasta

seeker

Mon, Jan 22 2018, 12:36 pm

To me, half the point of sloppy joes is to make it easy. So I brown the ground meat, add a little salt and pepper, pour a couple of cans of tomato sauce over it, and let it simmer for about a half hour.

Depending how much extra time and energy I want to put into it, I'd start by sauteeing chopped onions and garlic before adding the meat, and might add additional seasonings, or not. I like to add veggies because they camouflage well and then I feel like my kids are getting a more well-rounded meal, but if you want to avoid veggies then go ahead. I also sometimes mix the meat with lentils if I want to stretch it - Cook the lentils until soft, mash them with a fork, and mix it with the meat before cooking it.

You can also add extra water and salt and cook pasta right in the same pot as the meat for a real one-pot dinner. Only use enough water to just cover the pasta.