Sloppy Joe Recipe
A super quick and easy meal this Sloppy Joe Recipe is a family favorite that is completely homemade and completely addicting!
Who doesn’t love a good old homemade sloppy joe recipe? This is one of my kids all time favorite recipes ever. Hands down, they adore these easy sloppy joes and so do we. This sloppy joe recipe is an American classic everyone should have in their recipe box right next to your favorite chicken recipes!
SLOPPY JOE RECIPE
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Now growing up my mom always made homemade sloppy Joe’s and they were amazing. She used canned tomato soup in hers and they were one of my favorite recipes.
Once I moved out of the house and had a family of my own I will have to admit that’s we used the store bought sauce the majority of the time. That went on for a few years until I decided to play around in the kitchen and whip up a recipe that we adored.
This best sloppy joe recipe is literally so simple, it whips up in less than 10 minutes and feeds a bunch. Another amazing thing is that this recipe can easily be doubled or even tripled!! I mean how can you go wrong with that.
Sloppy Joe Recipes
First, you start out with some good quality ground beef. We usually use 80/20. You fry that up with some onions and garlic until beef is no longer pink and onions are translucent and garlic is fragrant.
You then add in some ketchup, bbq sauce…yes bbq sauce, trust me it gives this bbq recipe just the perfect flavor of smoky and sweet.
You then add in some mustard, vinegar, brown sugar, Worcestershire sauce, salt, and pepper. I mean those are ingredients that are usually are staples in your cabinet already so when I say easy I mean it.
This is our go-to easy sloppy joe recipe and everyone always asks me for it. I mean obviously, I’m happy to give it to them because in this family food is life and if someone falls in love with something we like to share.
So if you’re looking for a quick, easy and flavorful weeknight dinner or lunch than this Sloppy Joe recipe is the only one you need in your arsenal.
Try some of our other family favorite meals!
- Cheesy Crock Pot Chicken and Rice
- Easy Bake Ham and Cheese Stuffed Chicken
- Crock Pot Pulled Pork
- Honey Butter Chicken
- Garlic Butter Pork Chops
- Crock Pot Pizza Casserole
- More dinner ideas…
Tools used to make this Sloppy Joe Recipe
Large Skillet: This skillet is my go-to kitchen tool. It’s large circumference and high sides make it perfect for cooking anything from one pan meals to soups and sauces.
Wooden Spoon: Wooden spoons are a kitchen essential. I keep a bunch of them on hand for every meal from breakfast to dinner.
Sloppy Joes
Ingredients
- 1 lb ground beef
- 1 tsp minced garlic
- 1 small onion diced
- ½ cup bbq sauce
- ½ cup ketchup
- 1 Tbsp Worcestershire sauce
- 3 Tbsp brown sugar
- 1 Tbsp yellow mustard
- 1 Tbsp white vinegar
Instructions
- In saute pan add your ground beef, onion and garlic and brown until no longer pink and onions are translucent, drain.
- Add in your bbq sauce, ketchup, Worcestershire sauce, brown sugar, mustard and vinegar and stir until combined and heated through.
- Serve warm on buns.
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This is my go to recipe for Sloppy Joes…everyone (adults and kids) loves it!
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I made it exactly as printed and thought it was delicious. My hubby really liked it. I thought it was too sweet and too much sauce though. If I were to make it again, I would cut down the BBQ sauce and the ketchup by half, OR add another 1/2-1 lb of ground beef.
This was really good! I used 2.25 pounds of beef and Sweet Baby Ray’s BBQ sauce. I only doubled the remaining ingredients (except the onion, I used 1 small-medium onion). It was nice and tangy with the right about of sweet.
Hi do you use mustard powder mustard sauce or jar mustard?
Just good ol’ mustard sauce that you would have in the fridge.
very good. Thank you for sharing!