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The VERY best sloppy joes you will ever eat

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Sloppy Joes with an Asian flair.  I have, ahem, fallen off the diet bandwagon a bit these past few weeks.  Fallen off, landed in a ditch and gone down stream a mile or two. 

I know I need to get back on track before any of those angry pounds come looking for me and try to jump back on.  So this was a last meal, so to speak, before I start eating nothing but eggs again.

Last week I made a fabulous turkey burger, courtesy of Oprah and Donald Trump.  If you google it you'll find it.  Mar-a-Lago turkey burger.  Anyway I decided I wanted semi-home made buns to go with it so I bought frozen bread dough (Bridgeford), let it rise, then cut it into bun size pieces, let rise a bit more then baked them.  Very easy and very tasty.

So going with that same theme – I made home made buns again.  Not the prettiest looking buns in the world but the way they smell and taste is worth a little mis-shapeness.

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For the innards of the Sloppy Joes – I wanted something reminiscent of PF Chang's lettuce wrap chicken.  This is the recipe I came up with:

1.25 lbs ground turkey
2 tbsp. olive oil
1/2 diced yellow onion
1 tsp./clove diced garlic
1/4 tsp. ground ginger
3 tbsp. soy sauce
1/3 cup hoisin sauce
2 tbsp. sesame oil
1 can water chestnuts diced
1/4 – 1/2 tsp. chili hot sauce (too taste)
 
Brown the turkey in the olive oil.  Remove from pan.  Add onion to the pan and when it begins to soften add the rest of the ingredients and cook for about five minutes.  Add cooked turkey and heat through.
 
Serve on heated sliced buns. 
 
If salt is an issue for you then you might want to skip this recipe.  I use lower sodium soy sauce but between the soy sauce and the hoisin sauce it's pretty salty.  I'm going to look like a Bassett hound when I get up tomorrow, I just know it.
 
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  1. Mimi says

    I have got to try this! I love PF Changs lettuce wraps, so this has got to be good. But why must you torment me with the picture of fresh baked buns? Now I’m going to have to have them, too.
    Unfortunately, my weakness is any type of fresh baked bread. Oh well! So much for the good old diet.
    Thanks for the recipe!

  11. Jessica says

    Could you post the recipe for your homemade buns? I have tried a few recipes, and they just don’t come out quite right. These look delicious! Thanks!