My mission: To cook 5 recipes from Cooking Light Magazine each month.
This is recipe 4 of 5 for the month. However, I should reexamine when I start these posts so they line up with the first of the month:
Beef and Mushroom Sloppy Joes
What you need:
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 12 ounces ground sirloin
- 1 package presliced cremini mushrooms
- 1 onion, chopped
- 3 garlic cloves, minced
- 1 can of tomato paste
2 pinches of cumin- 1 tablespoon minced fresh oregano
- 2 tablespoons red wine vinegar
- 2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
- 1 tablespoon molasses
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 3/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- 1/2 teaspoon hot sauce
I love sloppy joes! I haven't had a sloppy joe since I was 15 when my mom made a sloppy joe from the Manwich can. It's just how I grew up. This recipe took me back to all those happy childhood memories and yet made me feel good because it is slightly healthier from what I remember.
I heated a skillet and tossed in some ground sirloin. As the meat browned I put in some cumin powder. I love cumin and since this isn't my mother's recipe I might as well put my stamp on this one. Cooking Light has a slightly different recipe. Check it out here. As the beef browns add the mushrooms, onion and garlic for a few minutes. I added a whole can of tomato paste instead of the "half a cup" the Cooking Light recipe says. It might be the same thing, but I'm not gonna measure tomato paste like a jerk. Once you add the tomato paste add the rest of the recipe except for the hot sauce. The molasses is the key ingredient here. As soon as I added it to the pan it felt like all I did was open up a Manwich can. It makes the whole dish. Once everything is mixed in together add the hot sauce and serve. It's that simple.
Finished Product: Felt like I was back on Greencroft Avenue waiting for my mom to tell me dinner is served. The consistency is just like a manwich yet the mushrooms add more texture than I'm used to and I liked it. I made a lot of this dish so I had some of it for dinner the night after and it heats up great. I'd make this again for sure. Maybe next time I will try to use lean turkey meat to cut down on the calories.
4 out of 5 stars
This is recipe 4 of 5 for the month. However, I should reexamine when I start these posts so they line up with the first of the month:
Beef and Mushroom Sloppy Joes
What you need:
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 12 ounces ground sirloin
- 1 package presliced cremini mushrooms
- 1 onion, chopped
- 3 garlic cloves, minced
- 1 can of tomato paste
2 pinches of cumin
- 1 tablespoon minced fresh oregano
- 2 tablespoons red wine vinegar
- 2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
- 1 tablespoon molasses
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 3/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- 1/2 teaspoon hot sauce
I love sloppy joes! I haven't had a sloppy joe since I was 15 when my mom made a sloppy joe from the Manwich can. It's just how I grew up. This recipe took me back to all those happy childhood memories and yet made me feel good because it is slightly healthier from what I remember.
I heated a skillet and tossed in some ground sirloin. As the meat browned I put in some cumin powder. I love cumin and since this isn't my mother's recipe I might as well put my stamp on this one. Cooking Light has a slightly different recipe. Check it out here. As the beef browns add the mushrooms, onion and garlic for a few minutes. I added a whole can of tomato paste instead of the "half a cup" the Cooking Light recipe says. It might be the same thing, but I'm not gonna measure tomato paste like a jerk. Once you add the tomato paste add the rest of the recipe except for the hot sauce. The molasses is the key ingredient here. As soon as I added it to the pan it felt like all I did was open up a Manwich can. It makes the whole dish. Once everything is mixed in together add the hot sauce and serve. It's that simple.
Finished Product:
Felt like I was back on Greencroft Avenue waiting for my mom to tell me dinner is served. The consistency is just like a manwich yet the mushrooms add more texture than I'm used to and I liked it. I made a lot of this dish so I had some of it for dinner the night after and it heats up great. I'd make this again for sure. Maybe next time I will try to use lean turkey meat to cut down on the calories.
4 out of 5 stars
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