Easiest and most delicious crock recipe I've ever made.
I was watching Man v. Food and watched a diner make their chili and noticed that they poured the water and tomato paste in a big pot with the uncooked ground beef and flipped that pot of goodness on high for 80 minutes. So I got to thinking- what would be the difference if I put a pound of ground beef in the crock pot with an entire jar of BBQ sauce on high for two hours?
I was interested enough to find out. Todd threw it all together for me while I was at practice last night and I came home to the house smelling of delicious barbecue. We spooned it over some Martin's Potato Hamburger rolls and chowed down.
I love this method of cooking ground beef- normally when I brown the beef in a pan I have way too much going on in the kitchen and the beef all starts to stick together forming balls of meat instead of thinly broken up stuff. I don't feel like standing over it and breaking it up the whole time. BUT, a note about the crock method if you're trying to save the fat- this isn't the best way since you're just eating it all. I'm going to try cooking with a 90/10 mix rather than the 80/20 I used last night OR just buy cheaper sauce (or leave some left in the bottle), cook it so it absorbs it all (it made the beef REALLY tender and juicy), drain the stuff and then put new sauce on.
I know this isn't an earth shattering procedure but it was good. And easy. Five Netflix stars for both!
I was watching Man v. Food and watched a diner make their chili and noticed that they poured the water and tomato paste in a big pot with the uncooked ground beef and flipped that pot of goodness on high for 80 minutes. So I got to thinking- what would be the difference if I put a pound of ground beef in the crock pot with an entire jar of BBQ sauce on high for two hours?
I was interested enough to find out. Todd threw it all together for me while I was at practice last night and I came home to the house smelling of delicious barbecue. We spooned it over some Martin's Potato Hamburger rolls and chowed down.
I love this method of cooking ground beef- normally when I brown the beef in a pan I have way too much going on in the kitchen and the beef all starts to stick together forming balls of meat instead of thinly broken up stuff. I don't feel like standing over it and breaking it up the whole time. BUT, a note about the crock method if you're trying to save the fat- this isn't the best way since you're just eating it all. I'm going to try cooking with a 90/10 mix rather than the 80/20 I used last night OR just buy cheaper sauce (or leave some left in the bottle), cook it so it absorbs it all (it made the beef REALLY tender and juicy), drain the stuff and then put new sauce on.
I know this isn't an earth shattering procedure but it was good. And easy. Five Netflix stars for both!
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I just tripled my productivity!