Sloppy Joe
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- Total time
- 35 min
- Level
- Easy
- Servings
- 4 servings
- Ingredients
- 8
About this dish
Ground beef simmered with ketchup, tomato paste, Worcestershire, and a little sugar turns into a sweet and savory filling piled onto soft buns, meant to drip as you eat.
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Browning the beef until its moisture cooks off keeps the sauce from going watery once the tomato paste and ketchup are in. The finished mixture should hold on a spoon and slide off slowly; any looser and the buns soak through and collapse. Toasting the cut sides of the buns dries their surface and slows how fast the sauce seeps in. Pickles on the side balance the richness.
Ingredients
Instructions
- 1
Finely dice 120 g onion and split the 4 burger buns before heating the pan.
Measure the tomato paste, ketchup, Worcestershire sauce, and sugar so they can go in quickly once the beef is browned.
- 2
Heat a pan over medium heat and melt 15 g butter until it foams lightly.
Add the onion and cook for about 3 minutes, stirring often, until it turns translucent and loses its sharp raw smell.
- 3
Add 400 g ground beef and break it into small crumbles with a spatula.
Cook over medium-high heat until the released moisture is mostly gone and the meat turns brown, so the sauce will not become watery.
- 4
Lower the heat to medium-low and stir in 2 tablespoons tomato paste first, coating the beef so it darkens slightly.
Add the ketchup, Worcestershire sauce, and sugar, then mix until every crumble is evenly coated.
- 5
Simmer on low heat for about 8 minutes, stirring from the bottom so the sweet sauce does not scorch.
Stop when the mixture holds on a spoon and slides off slowly rather than running like liquid.
- 6
Lightly toast the cut sides of the buns to dry the surface.
Add a generous spoonful of meat sauce and serve immediately.
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