Loose Meat Sandwiches

Mika G.'s Note:

These taste like a good old fashioned hamburger. They are so good! We usually double the recipe and use the meat in Stuffed baked potatoes on the second night.

• Total Time: 45 mins
• Prep Time: 15 mins
• Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients:

Servings: 8

• 2 lbs lean ground beef
• 1 teaspoon salt
• ½ teaspoon black pepper
• 1 ½ cups beef broth
• 1 teaspoon garlic powder
• 1 -2 onion , chopped
• 24 dill pickle slices
• mustard
• 8 hamburger buns

Directions:

1. In a large skillet over medium heat, cook onions until brown and carmelized. Add ground beef and cook until brown.
2. Add salt, pepper, garlic powder and beef broth to cover. Reduce heat to low and simmer, uncovered, until broth is gone, 15 to 30 minutes.
3. Serve meat on buns topped with dill pickle slices and mustard.
4. *We steam the buns on top of the meat (with lid on skillet) for a minute or two to get them nice and soft.

Reviews

[donnie27]

Loved this VERY SIMPLE recipe. It is just loose flavorful hamburger and the mustard and pickles are perfect. The beef broth really gives the hamburger flavor, and although I didn't use cheese on my sandwich, I think it might be what some think is missing in the flavor.
I was not looking for another "sloppy jo" taste, so wasn't expecting lots of spice like others did.
I am happy to give this 5* ..... we really enjoyed the sandwich.
Donna

[Domestic Goddess]

I'm sorry I have to say this, but my husband and I didn't care for this sandwich. We both thought it was rather bland. I added some dried mustard, chili powder, and more garlic powder. I also ended up cooking the meat/broth mixture for 45 minutes, in order to reduce the broth. I also found I much prefer this served in hot dog buns, and with a bit of pickled relish rather than sliced dill pickles.

[messystation]

I did not think I would like this, but I made it for my dad who has been asking for "sloppy joes like your mom used to make" for at least a year now. (We are from MD, so we had never heard of a loose meat sandwich.) But they were actually really good! I only bought a pound of ground beef, but I wish I had bought 2. Thank you for allowing me to recreate this meal for my dad.