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Sloppy Joes

August 4, 2010 by Amy 12 Comments

Sloppy Joes

My husband and I usually keep two types of meat on hand for cooking: chicken or ground beef. Sometimes we stray from the norm and do seafood or steaks, but to make our food budget happy, those are our staples. Chicken is so versatile and super easy to find meals for, but ground beef? I always feel a little limited there for some reason. I find it hard to find new ways to incorporate ground beef into our meals (feel free to comment if you have good ground beef recipes).

A while back, the hubs made some killer sloppy joes, and I thought I should challenge his with a good solid Cooks Illustrated recipe that I found. This recipe was pretty good, but a little bland compared to what the hubs came up with. Next time, I think I’ll have to spice things up a bit. 🙂

I paired this with some awesome oven baked fries and enjoyed the meal with a glass of lemonade. Classic summer meal, right? 🙂

Sloppy Joes
Source: mildly adapted from Cooks Illustrated

Ingredients:

  • 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
  • 1 medium onion , chopped fine
  • 1/2 teaspoon table salt
  • 2 cloves garlic , minced
  • 1/2 teaspoon chili powder
  • 1 pound lean ground beef
  • Ground black pepper
  • 1 teaspoon brown sugar
  • 1 cup tomato puree
  • 1/2 cup ketchup
  • 1/4 cup water
  • 1/4 teaspoon tabasco sauce
  • 4 hamburger buns

Directions:

  1. Heat oil in large skillet over medium-high heat until shimmering. Add onion and salt and stir until coated with oil. Reduce heat to medium, cover, and cook, stirring occasionally, until onion is soft, about 10 minutes (if onion begins to burn after 5 minutes, reduce heat to low). Add garlic and chili powder and cook, uncovered, stirring constantly, until fragrant, about 30 seconds. Add beef and cook, breaking up meat with wooden spoon, until just pink, about 3 minutes.
  2. Add 1/4 teaspoon pepper, brown sugar, tomato puree, ketchup, water, and tabasco. Simmer until Sloppy Joe sauce is slightly thicker than ketchup, 8 to 10 minutes. Adjust seasonings. Spoon meat mixture onto hamburger buns and serve.

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  1. Katie aka LatteLove says

    August 4, 2010 at 12:41 pm

    sloppy joes are SO yummy.
    another great use for ground beef is in a zucchini bake I make. Essentially taco seasoning, tomatoes, peppers, onions and ground beef sauteed and then stuffed in zucchinis, topped with cheese and baked. YUM.

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  2. Steph@PlainChicken says

    August 4, 2010 at 2:16 pm

    Welcome to Lunch Lady Land! I haven’t made sloppy joes in a while – I need to put them on the menu!

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  3. Memoria says

    August 4, 2010 at 11:23 pm

    When can we get the recipe for the sloppy joes?! These sandwiches still look good, though!

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  4. Memoria says

    August 4, 2010 at 11:24 pm

    Oh! Never mind! I found the link! Sorry.

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  5. michele says

    August 5, 2010 at 11:26 am

    These look great! Of course you have to have sloppy joe’s during the hot summer!

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  6. Sana says

    August 5, 2010 at 11:52 pm

    Oh my goodness! I have not has a sloppy joe since I was a child! I can’t wait to have some again!

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  7. Jessica says

    August 7, 2010 at 10:04 pm

    These look fabulous Amy!

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  8. Jenn says

    August 8, 2010 at 10:05 am

    Hamburger pie is a fabulous way to use ground beef in a new way! It involves mixing up ground beef, onion, pickles (chopped) and pickle joice and baking in a frozen pie crust, topping with shredded cheese. It’s delicious! I can dig up the recipe if you’d like!

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  9. Charmi says

    August 9, 2010 at 9:28 am

    I love sloppy joes! My husband is vegetarian so I sub ground beef for fake ground beef (lightlife brand is the BEST and tastes just like meat – i swear). I also add a ton of cumin and some fresh jalepeno (love spicy food). Subbing the fake meat for real meat actually makes the sloppy joes pretty health if you don’t cover them with cheese like I do.

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    • The Nifty Foodie says

      August 10, 2010 at 10:34 am

      LOL I cover mine with cheese too! I might have to try jalapeno next time. Hubs LOVES spicy!

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  10. Catherine says

    August 20, 2010 at 12:50 pm

    This may be on the menu next week. Micah was just saying he had a craving for sloppy joes.

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  11. Mike says

    September 5, 2010 at 5:52 am

    I understand your husband keeping ground beef and chicken around the house.

    Several years ago my wife started buying the large packs of ground beef at Costco and cooking it up all at once. Then she freezes it smaller packages that are the right size for making a recipe.

    We just pull the meat out of the freezer, thaw it in the microwave and we are good to go. A real time saver.

    We also buy chicken on sale and freeze that.

    Great blog!

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