Guys, Dr. Axe here, and welcome to my kitchen.
Today, I am going to be making a childhood classic recipe, sloppy joes.
I know this was one of my favorites as a kid, and you're going to love it too.
The great thing is, it's super nutritious and healthy for both you and your family.
So we're going to start off here, getting the skillet going, get it all warmed up at
about medium-high heat.
We're going to add a little bit of grape seed oil.
Grape seed oil is a great oil because it doesn't oxidize under heat.
So we're going to spread a little oil around there on the pan.
The next thing we're going to be adding in are onions.
Onions are amazing foods, actually immune boosters contain allicin and sulfur and some
other great things that help detox your body and get your immune system running a little
bit stronger.
Now, what we're going to do is go ahead for about two to three minutes and let these onions
get warmed up before we put any meat in.
All right, we've got these onions all simmered up and ready to go.
Like I said, we let these cook about two to three minutes.
The next thing we're going to add in is some grass-fed beef.
Grass-fed beef is great because its not fed grain.
It is loaded with CLA, conjugated linoleic acid, it's going to help your body burn fat,
lose weight.
Also it's got good omega-3 fats, loaded with B complex vitamins, Vitamin B12.
A lot of good benefits there.
So with the sloppy joe recipe, you're going to take a spatula, and mash the burger meat
up.
Getting it mixed up here, like this.
Again, grass-fed beef is loaded with good protein.
So if you're looking to put on some muscle, it's another great thing that you want to
get into your diet.
Grass-fed beef, you can find it at Whole Foods, at your local farmer's market typically.
There's a lot of co-ops where you can get it.
Actually, even regular grocery stores are now starting to carry grass-fed beef or bison.
Bison has a great flavor, one of the things I love.
Now this recipe, you don't have to use grass-fed beef, you can also use turkey burgers, you
could also use lamb burgers.
There are all kinds of things that you could use here.
Typically for sloppy joes we're going to use the grass-fed beef.
Get it pretty well mixed there.
We're going to add a little bit of sea salt, about one teaspoon.
So we're going to go ahead and sprinkle the sea salt all over.
Next thing we're going to add is black pepper, usually about a half a teaspoon.
Mix the black pepper and the sea salt real good in there.
We're going to let this continue to cook, and we're going to keep stirring this for
about the next four or five minutes probably until it's done.
Then we're going to add in a couple more ingredients.
We've been letting this sloppy joe recipe simmer for about four or five minutes, now
it's time to add a couple more ingredients.
We're going to add in some Annie's Organic Barbeque Sauce.
Now, in the original recipe, we have a barbeque sauce that we have from the cookbook, The
Real Food Diet cookbook.
But in this case, we're going to go ahead and use this, about a half a cup of the organic
barbeque sauce.
Stir it up.
Next thing we're going to add is tomato sauce, about a half a cup
of tomato sauce.
Tomatoes are full of lycopene, which is an antioxidant that has been shown to help with
male prostate, healthy glowing skin, preventing sunburn, so a lot of benefits of tomatoes.
So we're going to get this all mixed up here and let it simmer
for about 10 minutes or so.
The sloppy joes are now ready to serve.
We let them simmer for a while here.
We're going to put them on Ezekiel bread buns, Ezekiel 4:9.
These grains are actually sprouted so it brings out the nutrients, easier to digest, a lot
better for you.
Or you can use gluton free bread or you can go bread-less.
That's probably what I will do is go ahead and skip the bread.
We're going to go ahead and put these on the Ezekiel buns.
All right.
Okay and you've got your sloppy joe ready to serve.
Enjoy this.