Add the carrots, celery and onions to the pan and stir then add salt which will help sweat the vegetables down for about 20mins so that they are softish
Step 3
Then add the nutmeg, ground cloves and cayenne pepper and crushed garlic and cook down
Step 4
Whilst the vegetables are sweating, add the ground beef to a dry pan (do not add any oil) and dry the beef in large lumps try and not break it down
Step 5
Once the minced beef is cooked in about 5-10mins, then add the fat juices, mince to the vegetable mix
Step 6
Then add 1 teaspoon of brown sugar and the ketchup, tomatoe puree, cider vinegar and Worcestershire sauce
Step 7
Mix all the ingredients and bring to the boil then lower the heat down and simmer for approx. 30mins
Step 8
To serve you can have two options, the traditional way of toasting some large bread buns then adding the sloppy joe on top and eating like a burger OR:
Step 9
add 300g of miniature baby potatoes to step 2 when you are sweating the vegetable down and you have a meal in itself
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