Guinea Grinder Iowa State Fair Food Recipes

GUINEA GRINDER: IOWA STATE FAIR FOOD

Steps:

• If sausage has casings remove them and crumble into pan with the ground beef. Brown both meats together until no longer pink. Drain fat.
• Mix the salt, pepper, garlic powder and pepper flakes into the pizza sauce.
• Put the browned meat and the seasoned sauce into the slow cooker and stir to combine. Cover and cook on low for 4 hours or on high for 1-2 hours, stir once or twice during cooking.
• Preheat oven to 375 F. Cut the split French loaf into 3 separate sandwiches. Repeat with second loaf. If making all 12 servings, repeat with 3rd and 4th loaf.
• Pull a small amount of bread out of the bottom of the loaf to make a bowl for the meat.
• Fill the bowl with meat mixture.
• Cover the meat mixture with shredded Mozzarella cheese.
• Place the top of loaf onto the sandwich and wrap the entire thing in foil. Bake for 15 minutes in the oven and serve.

GUINEA GRINDER

Steps:

• 1. Brown the meat in a heavy skillet. Drain off any fat. Empty the pizza sauce into a bowl and stir the spices into it.
• 2. Pour cooked meat into a crock pot and stir in pizza sauce. Cook on high for 90 minutes to 2 hours stirring about 4 times during cooking process. You can also cook it all day on low heat if that works better for you.
• 3. Warm the bread or buns, split ladle in half and fill with meat. Top with cheese. Place in a warm oven for a 7 - 10 minutes or until cheese has melted. Cut into serving portions and enjoy.
• 4. We like to put extras on the table like fresh sliced mushrooms, pepper chine's, green pepper, onion etc. They are also GREAT served with onion rings.