loose meat sandwiches

New Iberia, LA
Updated on Jul 30, 2013

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

  • Step 1
    Chop the onion and caramelize with 1 teaspoon of the sugar, oil and butter.
  • Step 2
    Remove 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.
  • Step 3
    If you notice all the meat has not cooked into small pieces let it cool, then break them up with your fingers.
  • Step 4
    While 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.
  • Step 5
    Drain the meat from any grease that is in the pan.
  • Step 6
    Add the meat back to the pan.
  • Step 7
    Put the onions back in the pan and add the soup, catchup, mustard, 1 teaspoon sugar, salt & pepper, stir well.
  • Step 8
    Add the ginger ale mixture to the pot.
  • Step 9
    When 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.
  • Step 10
    Add the last 1 teaspoon of sugar.
  • Step 11
    Cook 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….
  • Step 12
    Serve on toasted buns with zesty bread & butter pickles and chips.

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Category: Chicken
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Category: Sandwiches
Ingredient: Beef
Culture: American
Method: Stove Top

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