Posted: 2/16/2009 10:47:04 AM EDT
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Dillo Dust answer to the sloppy joe!
Tools: cast iron skillet Ingredients: butter, vegetable oil, Dillo Dust, Garlic Powder, Salt, one finely chopped yellow onion, one finely chopped red bell pepper, one 15oz can tomato sauce (Muir Glen or other good quality), 1/4 cup ketchup, 2-3 teaspoons Worcestershire sauce (to taste). 1lb Ground Beef. 1. low heat 1 tablespoon vegetable oil with 1 tablespoon of butter. (Don't allow this to burn!) Add your finely chopped onions and saute in butter / oil mixture at low heat. Stir frequently! 2. Once the onions start to brown add the chopped red bell pepper. Continue to saute until the red peppers are soft, again stirring often! 3. Add the lean ground beef. Cook. Add 1-2 teaspoons garlic powder, and 2-3 teaspoons dillo dust (to taste). After the meat has cooked through, increase temp to medium so as to brown the ground beef to your liking. Taste and make sure you have enough dillo dust.. but don't over spice! 4. Add tomato sauce, ketchup and Worcestershire sauce. Add salt (start small 1 teaspoon at a time and taste! ). Reduce heat to low again and simmer this for about 15 minutes or so allowing the sauce to cook down. You can also add more dillo dust at this stage again to balance your sense of spicy with salty. Too much salt or spice will ruin it. Basically you remember as a kid that you don't want your sloppy joe to be runny. The sauce needs to thicken up. 5. lightly toast your buns and put the tasty sloppy dillo joe sauce on the bun! (Onion buns are especially tasty for this) EAT! |
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May I ask, about how much of the dillo dust, salt and garlic powder did you use?
I will post pictures with GUNS and DILLOs for my next try at this recipe. I'm also considering an optional addition of some mild peppers chopped and added to the mix. Thanks for the feedback. ~Yuckman |
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I went by the recipe at first, but couldn't readily distinguish the flavor of the dillo dust so put a decent sprinkling over the entire pan as I simmered the entire mixture and stirred in. I would probably say two or three times what the recipe called for. FWIW, I used two pounds of ground beef not one but did not double the rest of the recipe. As for salt, I just put a pretty heavy sprinkling as well. I stayed with the 2 tsp of garlic powder.
Most of the time when I cook, someone in my family of four has a complaint of somesort but not with these. I think everyone had seconds. We had chips and rotel dip on the side. |