Thanks to pantry staples like sweetened condensed milk in cans, evaporated milk in cans, and cherries in cans, making your own dessert is as simple as uno, dos, TRES.
| Prep Time: | 30 mins |
| Cook Time: | 4 hrs |
| Total Time: | 4 hrs 30 mins |
| Servings: | 10 |
| Yield: | 10 servings |
Ingredients
- 2 ½ pounds ground beef
- 1 large onion, chopped
- ¼ green bell pepper, chopped
- 2 stalks celery, chopped
- 1 (10.75 ounce) can condensed chicken gumbo soup
- 1 (6 ounce) can tomato paste
- 2 tablespoons brown sugar
- 4 tablespoons lemon juice
- 1 ½ tablespoons yellow mustard
- ½ cup ketchup
- ½ cup barbecue sauce
- 6 tablespoons white vinegar
- 2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
- 1 teaspoon liquid smoke flavoring
- ½ teaspoon dried parsley
- ½ teaspoon black pepper
- 1 teaspoon salt
Instructions
- In a large heavy skillet, cook ground beef until evenly brown; drain well.
- In a slow cooker, combine onion, bell pepper, celery, condensed gumbo soup, tomato paste and brown sugar. Stir in lemon juice, mustard, ketchup, barbeque sauce and vinegar. season with Worcestershire sauce, liquid smoke, parsley, black pepper and salt. Stir in browned beef.
- Cover, and cook on low for 4 to 6 hours, stirring occasionally. Skim off excess fat.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 439 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 19 g |
| Cholesterol | 97 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 2 g |
| Protein | 21 g |
| Saturated Fat | 12 g |
| Sodium | 1017 mg |
| Sugars | 13 g |
| Fat | 31 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
Given to me by my mother before 1950! She always used chicken gumbo soup for sloppy joes, but not so many ingredients. Very good!!
I made this recipe but I didn’t taste it. I don’t care for Sloppy Joe’s but the family does. And they liked it. Based on the reviews I left out the liquid smoke and the vinegar. I added a 1/4 of a red bell pepper that I needed to use up. Since I’m not a fan of this dish I think I’ll just continue to make it the easy way….out of a can.
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This is one of my favorite recipes. I don’t even like sloppy joes but this recipe I love them! I omited the vinegar and smoke flavoring. Instead of regular mustard I use dijon mustard. I also add a touch of cumin and a clove of garlic to mine. They are so good and it makes a lot – sometimes i freeze some of it and then on nights i am too busy to cook I can just pull it out.
This is one of my favorite recipes. I don’t even like sloppy joes but this recipe I love them! I omited the vinegar and smoke flavoring. Instead of regular mustard I use dijon mustard. I also add a touch of cumin and a clove of garlic to mine. They are so good and it makes a lot – sometimes i freeze some of it and then on nights i am too busy to cook I can just pull it out.
This is one of the best sloppy Joes I’ve ever had! Made them for friends and they loved them. Now iImake these all the time!
Loved this recipe, was expecting to be able to freeze at least half but these were gobbled down before I had a chance. Will be making these again. Would be great for a potluck. Thanks for the great recipe.
**3780 calories for the total recipe as written, (adding a 1/2 head of cabbage totals up to 3920)** I have been using this recipe for the past 10 YEARS, it was the 1st recipe I printed off the internet! 🙂 Two big changes I have made: ~HALVE the vinegar and lemon juice. ~Chop up an entire head of cabbage in the food processor (to small crumbs) and add it to the doubled recipe (just a half head for the recipe as written). It might look like too much but it’s not, it blends perfectly with the texture of the groundbeef and my family can’t tell the difference when I make it without the cabbage. Cabbage is super cheap (and healthy!) and is a great way to really stretch the meat in this dish without gumming it up with oatmeal like so many recipes call for. This is a superb freezer meal–I make a double batch every couple months or whenever ground beef is on a great sale and bag it up in freezer bags. Quicker (and cheaper!) to just defrost a bag quickly than even opening a can and browning up the meat. My family gives this a two big thumbs up–with the caveat of the vinegar/lemon juice change 😉 (oh, and you can use the un-condensed version of the gumbo soup if you can’t find it, I’ve done that often with no noticeable difference, it’ll just need to simmer a bit longer to compensate for the additional liquid. Another frugal hint: Aldi’s often carries the uncondensed version in their Fit & Active brand if you have one of their stores nearby) Anyways, Thanks Mark, love the recipe!
My Mom always used chicken gumbo soup in her Sloppy Joes. This was great..left out some of the vegetables but still sooo tasty.
This recipe is awesome! I followed the recipe exactly as stated however, didn’t have any liquid smoke – no problem – I am not a big fan of it anyway. But my kids devoured it. I was so skeptical at first……but it was absolutely fantastic. Didn’t have time for a crock pot – simmered on the stove for 2 hrs. – PERFECTION!!
Didn’t chage a thing on this recipe and it’s always a hit. Much better than the Manwitch I grew up with.
This is the best sloppy joe recipe I have ever tried. The kids love it and so do I. I don’t change a thing!!! Delicious!
This recipe was very delicious & I’ll be using it often. After mixing the ingredients, I simmered for 1/2 hour and served. I love the taste of fresh vegs. and all was consumed. This recipe is in my recipe box for future meals.
The big problem with this recipe is that it did not call for patience to wait the four hours or so to try it. this is so good that I craved the meal all day!! I have never rated a recipe before but this one is so so gooooood!!by the way I have sent this many of my friends so they could make it It is now famous as it 32 below zero where i live now and everyone is raving about these SJs thank you Mark
I didn’t have condensed chicken gumbo soup so I used organic powdered condensed chicken soup, I also didn’t have yellow mustard but used gluten free white mustard and lastly I didn’t have white vinegar intead I used Mirin cooking wine. The dish was wonderful! Much better than I remember the best canned sauce mix.
The texture of these is phenomenal. I think every ingredient is well worth the work. Jalapeno is an extra my husband and I added. We’ll never go back to the “old” way of doin’ em.
My family loves this recipe. I use 3 pounds of hamburger and put in a slow cooker. Comparing this recipe to canned is like comparing store bought applesauce to homemade.
I made this over the weekend to feed the friends that were helping my daughter move. It was a big hit!!! Only thing I left out was the liquid smoke. I will make this again and again.
Way too many ingredients! You’re better off just buying a can of sloppy joe sauce..the ingredients are very redundent.
I have looked for years for my sloppy joe recipe that used Chicken Gumbo Soup. I was thrilled to find this one. Substitute any other ingredient (of course, not the beef!)….but leave in the Chicken Gumbo Soup….it’s the secret!
Followed the recipe as written and it had an overwhelmingly vinegar taste. I tried adding another can of tomato paste at the suggestion of another reviewer and then tried adding brown sugar to counteract the vinegar to no avail.I will not make this recipe again.