Sloppy Joes, the good old lad.
| Prep Time: | 45 mins |
| Cook Time: | 50 mins |
| Total Time: | 1 hr 35 mins |
| Servings: | 12 |
| Yield: | 12 servings |
Ingredients
- 3 tablespoons butter
- 6 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 large sweet onion (such as Vidalia®), chopped
- 1 large green bell pepper, chopped
- ¼ cup chopped fresh cilantro
- 2 pounds ground beef
- ¼ cup brown sugar
- 2 tablespoons prepared yellow mustard (such as Colman’s®)
- 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
- 1 teaspoon Italian seasoning
- 1 teaspoon onion powder
- ¾ teaspoon Greek seasoning (such as Cavender’s®), or more to taste
- ½ teaspoon hamburger seasoning (such as McCormick® Grill Mates®), or more to taste
- ½ teaspoon garlic powder
- ½ teaspoon ground black pepper
- ½ teaspoon smokehouse maple seasoning (such as McCormick® Grill Mates®), or more to taste
- ¼ teaspoon hickory smoked salt (such as McCormick®), or more to taste
- 2 pinches ground nutmeg, or more to taste
- 2 cups barbeque sauce (such as Sweet Baby Ray’s®)
- 1 cup ketchup
- 2 tablespoons apple cider vinegar
- 12 hamburger buns
Instructions
- Melt butter in a skillet over medium heat. Cook and stir garlic in hot butter until fragrant, 1 to 2 minutes. Stir onion, green pepper, and cilantro into garlic; cook and stir until the onion is softened, 5 to 10 minutes.
- Cook and stir ground beef in a large skillet over medium heat until browned, 5 to 10 minutes; drain fat. Increase heat to medium-high. Stir brown sugar, mustard, Worcestershire sauce, Italian seasoning, onion powder, Greek seasoning, hamburger seasoning, garlic powder, black pepper, smokehouse maple seasoning, smoked salt, and nutmeg into ground beef mixture; cook until boiling, 4 to 6 minutes.
- Stir onion mixture into beef mixture; reduce heat to simmer.
- Pour barbeque sauce, ketchup, and apple cider vinegar into beef mixture; stir, cover, and simmer until sauce is thickened, 30 minutes. Scoop beef into hamburger buns and serve.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 401 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 50 g |
| Cholesterol | 55 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 2 g |
| Protein | 17 g |
| Saturated Fat | 6 g |
| Sodium | 1142 mg |
| Sugars | 21 g |
| Fat | 15 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
So if you add all the ingredients into a mayo jar ( no beef )and keep for when you make this. its a hour dinner. 2 thumbs up.. 🙂
This should be more appropriately named “Everything But The Kitchen Sink Sloppy Joes” with its 21 ingredients (really, for sloppy joes?). Nobody in this house likes smoky flavors, so I did omit the hickory smoked salt and the smokehouse maple seasoning. Since there was a lot of freshly-minced garlic, I also left out the garlic powder (do you really need that???). Yes, we enjoyed this, but not well enough to make again. The great thing about a sloppy joe is its simplicity, and I thought the recipe author was just pulling out every spice in the cabinet; bottom line, I really didn’t think that any one of them distinguished itself well enough to justify this many ingredients. The flavor that is the most dominant is the barbecue sauce, but the rest of the ingredients in such small amounts are overpowered by the BBQ sauce IMHO. Good, yes we enjoyed it, but Bubba, I’ll be movin’ on. Thanks for sharing your recipe.