Mini hamburger steaks in onion gravy to can

Ingredients for Onion Gravy

3 tablespoons olive oil

2 cups chopped onion

1 1/2 cups of finely chopped bell pepper

1 tablespoon sea salt

1 teaspoon black pepper

1 teaspoon garlic powder

2 – 32 oz. carton Beef broth

1 pkg Lipton Golden Onion Soup mix

½ pint ROUX, (Approximately)

1 can cream of onion soup

Heat the olive oil in a large size pan mix the chopped onions and stir well sauté them and add the chopped bell pepper and sauté together about ten minutes. Add the salt, black pepper and garlic powder and stir well.Add in the beef broth and stir well. Stir in approximately ½ pint of Roux tomake a gravy texture. Stir in cream of onion soup.

Heat for about twenty five minutes or until it is brought to a boil. Set aside in covered pan to set until ready to can.

Ingredients for Mini Hamburger Steaks

5 lbs. fresh ground beef

1 ½ cups of chopped onion

1 ½ cups bread crumbs

1 ½ tablespoon sea salt

1 tablespoon garlic powder

½ tablespoon black pepper

4 raw eggs

Mix all of these ingredients well. Roll this mixture out ona cutting board about ½ inch thick and then cut or roll out the miniHamburger-steaks, heat olive oil in a skillet and place the miniHamburger-steaks brown quickly and turn over and brown the other side. Set aside until ready to can.

(10-11 pints or 6-7 quarts)

Canning:In heated pint jars: place 3 mini Hamburger-steaks in each jar, OR 6 mini Hamburger-steaks in each quart jar. Pour the onion gravy mix over the mini Hamburger-steaks leaving about one inch of space in the jar. Seal and put into canner. Ones the canner gets to10-11 pounds pressure can pints for 75 minutes, quarts for 90 minutes.I like to serve these over white rice.

I found this recipe in the canning group I am a member of online.