bakin' and eggs

We had some leftover blue cheese that I wanted to use. I was browsing blue cheese recipes on some of my favorite food blogs and I came across this recipe for Buffalo Sloppy Joe’s on Savory Spicy Sweet. I sent it to Brandon and not surprisingly he said, “Yes! Can we have this tonight?” He looked forward to these all day. I seriously haven’t seen the boy so excited about dinner in a while. Before he even tasted them he asked me to make extra so he could have leftovers for lunch.

These were really easy to put together. Dinner took 20-30 minutes tops from start to finish. These will definitely be going in the make again recipe file and for some reason I have a feeling I’ll get a request to make them again soon 🙂

Buffalo Sloppy Joes
(Recipe source Savory Spicy Sweet)

Ingredients:

1 tbsp olive oil
1 lb ground chicken
1/2 carrot, peeled and chopped or grated
1 stalk celery, chopped
1 yellow onion, finely chopped
2 cloves garlic, finely chopped or grated
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
1 tbsp red wine vinegar
1 tbsp brown sugar
1/2 tbsp Worcestershire sauce
1/8- 1/4 cup hot sauce (recommended: Frank’s Red Hot)
1/2 cup tomato sauce
1/2 cup chicken stock
4 good quality burger rolls, split and toasted
1/2 cup blue cheese crumbles

Directions:

Heat olive oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add meat and break it up with wooden spoon, cook about 5 minutes. Add in carrots, celery, onions and garlic, season with salt and freshly ground black pepper, cook 7 to 8 minutes more. In a bowl combine the vinegar, sugar, Worcestershire, hot sauce, tomato sauce and stock. Pour into the pan and stir to combine. Simmer a few minutes more until sauce thickens. Pile filling onto buns and top with blue cheese.

Yield: 4 servings