Sloppy Joe's - Key West and Beyond
 
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Like Chili aka Chile, just about everyone has a recipe. This is mine and it is the best in the world. Really
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Recipe type: Sandwich
Cuisine: Very American
Serves: 2.25 lbs
Ingredients
  • 2, pounds lean ground sirloin, angus or bison
  • 1, large sweet onion chopped
  • 1, red pepper course chopped
  • 1, yellow pepper course chopped
  • 4 to 6 oz, smoked bacon rendered
  • 1, 8oz bottle of natural ketchup (real sugar)
  • 2 TBS to a can of tomato paste
  • Badia Chipotle Molido to taste and heat
  • powdered garlic powder to taste
  • Sea salt to taste
  • Green peppercorns ground to taste
  • (Optional recommended) Grains of Paradise ground to taste (lots in mine)
Instructions
  1. Chop the bacon into ½" squares. Render the bacon to a cooked and crips state. Do not drain. Add chopped onion and peppers and sauté until well cooked or browned. Add ground meat and cook quickly until browed...barely! Add ketchup and tomato paste. Add garlic powder, salt, pepper, grains of paradise to taste.
  2. Now for the secret. Turn off the heat!!! Let stand for 30 minutes. Warm again to a slight bubble. Turn off heat. Let stand 10 minutes and then warm to serving temperature.
  3. Ladle onto a fresh hamburger bun. Add toppings like raw onion, green onion, yellow mustard.
  4. Serving options: Ladle over a freshly steamed all meat hotdog. Healthier option: ladle into a freshly cooked garnet yam. Unhealthy option: ladle onto a hamburger bun and top with potato sticks, canned onion rings and toppings of choice.
  5. This is a sacred childhood meal and lest the ghost of Earnest Hemingway haunt you, do not lose the taste of the Sloppy Joe by over adding toppings.
  6. Good cold on a bun with red beer for breakfast. Oh my misspent youth.
Recipe by Chill Travelers at https://www.chilltravelers.com/chill/sloppy-joes-key-west/