loose meat sandwiches
Serve on toasted buns with zesty bread & butter pickles and chips. I have been making these loose meat sandwiches since the 70s, tweaking them here and there. This is how I make them now….when I take them to pot luck parties ….they are all gone!
prep time
25 Min
cook time
1 Hr 45 Min
method
Stove Top
yield
10 to 12 easily
Ingredients
- 4 - 10 ¾ ounce cans chicken gumbo soup
- 3 pounds ground chuck 80/20
- 1 medium onion cut into small pieces
- 1 cup catsup
- 1 - 12 ounce can seagram’s ginger ale
- 1 - square mexican chocolate
- 2 tablespoons French’s spicy brown mustard
- 2 tablespoons sea salt
- 1 tablespoon fresh ground pepper
- 2 teaspoons turbinado sugar “divided “
- 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
- 1 tablespoon unsalted butter
- - toasted hamburger buns
How To Make loose meat sandwiches
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Step 1Chop the onion and caramelize with 1 teaspoon of the sugar, oil and butter.
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Step 2Remove the onions once they have caramelized “ do not drain any of the grease off at this point, because all that buttery onion flavor will add to the dish, and in the same pan cook the chuck till it is done and slightly browned.
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Step 3If you notice all the meat has not cooked into small pieces let it cool, then break them up with your fingers.
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Step 4While the chuck is cooking, put the ginger ale and the Mexican chocolate in a small pan and simmer the mixture till the chocolate has dissolved.
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Step 5Drain the meat from any grease that is in the pan.
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Step 6Add the meat back to the pan.
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Step 7Put the onions back in the pan and add the soup, catchup, mustard, 1 teaspoon sugar, salt & pepper, stir well.
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Step 8Add the ginger ale mixture to the pot.
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Step 9When you empty the soup put about ¼ cup of water in one can, swish it around and keep pouring this from one can to the next till you have done this to all 4 cans, pour this in the pan.
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Step 10Add the last 1 teaspoon of sugar.
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Step 11Cook this on low till all the flavors have come together and most of the liquid has cooked away. This will take about 1 to 1 & ½ hours. Stir this occasionally….
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Step 12Serve on toasted buns with zesty bread & butter pickles and chips.
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Category:
Chicken
Category:
Beef
Category:
Other Main Dishes
Category:
Sandwiches
Tag:
#Quick & Easy
Tag:
#For Kids
Ingredient:
Beef
Culture:
American
Method:
Stove Top
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