 meat boy is back and today we are making sloppy joes which I'm genuinely surprised I haven't made yet because it's really just a bunch of ground beef on a bun you can't get much more carnivore than that and in the context of getting kids or picky eaters to consume more animal protein this is as good as it gets usually these recipes sneak in some high quality dairy bit of steak here and there but to actually get someone to consume you know a quarter or half a pound three quarters of a pound of meat in one setting to get the B vitamins and that animal protein that the average person is so deficient in nowadays is a bit rare so let me show you guys what ingredients we need so there's three stages to this recipe we're going to brown the meat take it out of the pan caramelize the vegetables and then put the meat back in with the sauce and let that simmer for maybe 15-20 minutes for the meat we're using 100% grass-fed top-secret blend on Frankie's free range meat so if you go under the ground beef section this will be available and I'll do a video on this in the future when I'm 100% ready to launch it but this is just really special just I've messed around with a bunch of different cuts and this is what I have came up with Frankie's free range meat calm top-secret blend the vegetables we need are one onion one green bell pepper and six cloves of garlic I've already diced that up and then for the sauce we have ketchup coconut aminos honey to sweeten it a little bit some mustard and some butter that we're going to saute the meat in and there's some variation in these recipes the veg is typically the same sometimes they'll use tomato paste instead of coconut aminos they'll use Worcestershire which is to me not that high quality and this is basically identical a few tweaks to make it healthier as well as a little bit tastier almost forgot I did grab some wagyu beef tello from Frankie's free range meat because I don't want that butter to burn so much when I'm caramelizing the meat I want to be a little careful because this pan is really hot but so I have two pounds of beef and this recipe is a lot you know maybe two or three nights of leftovers for your family but if you're gonna put in the effort to make something this high quality you know you want to have those leftovers and I put the meat in the pan like this so that we can get a nice browning and caramelization if you just put the ground beef in here and start breaking it up it's gonna start sweating and releasing a lot of moisture and it's ultimately going to steam instead of caramelized now most recipes what they'll do is you know they'll break it up they'll completely kill it they'll take it out put it back in and then cook another 15-20 minutes which is way way way too long at least this way we can keep most of it raw still get that caramelization and then put it back in that should be good now we're gonna add two tablespoons of butter to the pan so that when we saute the vegetables we add a lot of flavor and again this is one bell pepper one whole onion and six cloves of garlic so these we just want to soften I mean I guess you could caramelize them if you want to try to add some more flavor but every recipe I've looked at just softens the vegetables for three to five minutes so while that's sauteing we have time to make our sloppy Joe sauce and in this measuring cup I already have two-thirds of a cup of filtered water to that we're going to add one and a half cups of ketchup you want two tablespoons of honey some recipes use brown sugar some recipes use white sugar about one tablespoon of the coconut aminos one teaspoon of mustard half a teaspoon of freshly cracked black pepper and I'm going to put a decent amount of salt in here because I haven't seasoned any of this dish yet all the salt is going to be in this sauce there's no salt on the meat there's no salt on the vegetables just you know two or three teaspoons in here or put one teaspoon in here and then season the vegetables and meat accordingly so this is where everything comes together we're gonna put our beef back in the pan and we're going to pour in the sloppy Joe sauce so now I'm just gonna break up all the beef alright so everything is nicely mixed together as you can see there's still a lot of pink in here the beef is mostly raw throughout so we're gonna let this go for 15 20 minutes and then we'll check in when everything's cooked and the liquid has reduced slightly so we let this simmer for about 20 minutes took it off the heat it's going off now and it looks perfect it's a bit late so my lovely sister is not here to taste test however I'm sure she will enjoy this over the next few days I put a little bit in a bowl on the side just so that it would cool off a bit faster than the rest and for the buns I just went to Whole Foods and bought the organic white buns the whole wheat don't really taste that good Dave's killer bread does have a pretty good brand that tastes good that I didn't see there today and the ingredients on either not ideal but it's really the only option in the supermarket there's not that many organic buns available you know we gluten cane sugar canola oil but this is not bad you know if you're again compared to what your kid would normally eat or an average stands in American diet or I'm hoping to do a recipe on burger buns in the future it's just a lot of work so I've been kind of delaying that however this will do for the sloppy joes now I am not a sloppy guy I don't like eating with my hands I don't like getting messy you know if I get like a little bit of food on my hands or face I have to like use four napkins to wipe it all off I mean it's basically pure ground beef on a burger definitely sloppy predominant flavor is beef hints of the ketchup a little bit of the vegetables so let's say you know you don't want hot dog buns you know your keto or like a not so strict carnivore how does this taste on its own I mean it's good stuff as someone who usually likes rare meat or well not well done like this I can even go for this you know a couple times a month as a nice change of pace so hopefully you guys try this recipe for yourself your family or your kids and you enjoy it if you can please drop a like on the video leave a comment down below subscribe so that YouTube can unsubscribe you next week and be sure to check that notification bell so they don't notify you of my videos if you guys have any recipe ideas please let me know down in the comments below and if you guys do want to support me you can see all of my businesses on frank dash to follow calm we have that top secret blend as well as the wagyu beef tello Frankie's range meat calm and then you can see all the other businesses on frank dash to fire calm thanks again guys and I will see you tomorrow