The sale of these increasingly popular meat pieces has been promoted by one of our neighborhood food distributors. My spouse and I find the following to be extremely nice after searching through online recipes and experimenting with my own! If you have an indoor grill (we have a Foreman), you might also try cooking it there. With a little of your preferred Asian dressing, serve this over salad greens or in warm wheat tortillas.
| Prep Time: | 15 mins |
| Cook Time: | 55 mins |
| Total Time: | 1 hr 10 mins |
| Servings: | 6 |
Ingredients
- 1 ½ pounds extra-lean ground beef
- ½ onion, diced
- 1 green pepper, diced
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 2 cups water, divided
- ¾ cup ketchup
- 2 tablespoons brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon Dijon mustard
- 1 ½ teaspoons salt, or to taste
- ½ teaspoon ground black pepper
- 1 dash Worcestershire sauce
- 1 pinch cayenne pepper, or to taste
Instructions
- Place ground beef and onion in a large skillet over medium heat; cook and stir until beef is browned and crumbled, about 10 minutes.
- Stir in green pepper and garlic; cook and stir until softened, 2 to 3 minutes. Add 1 cup water and stir, scraping the pan to dissolve any brown flavor bits from the bottom of the skillet.
- Stir in ketchup, brown sugar, Dijon mustard, salt, black pepper, and Worcestershire sauce. Add remaining 1 cup water and bring mixture to a boil. Reduce heat to low and simmer, stirring occasionally, until liquid has evaporated and mixture is thick, about 40 minutes.
- Season with salt, black pepper, Worcestershire sauce, and cayenne pepper.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 251 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 14 g |
| Cholesterol | 69 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 1 g |
| Protein | 22 g |
| Saturated Fat | 5 g |
| Sodium | 1002 mg |
| Sugars | 12 g |
| Fat | 12 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
Just added more garlic, because we love garlic. Further is everything the same and it’s delicious. Made it a couple of times already.
Best sloppy Joes I’ve ever had. My wife loves these! Thanks Chef John.
I thought it came out awesome. My 10 kids and hubby were skeptical. This is much healthier than anything from a can.
Better than anything canned! I substitute Swerve brown sugar and Heinz No-Sugar-Added. Totally delicious. I use an ice cream scoop to portion servings into individual zipper bags and freeze them. They reheat perfectly.
This was really good. My husband does not like it to be sweet so I left the sugar out and used tomato paste instead of ketchup. I only used 1 cup of water and did not simmer for 45 minutes. Once it reached the consistency I liked I served it up. Everyone was happy with it.
Yes, I added celery, green pepper, onion, different flavors of mustard and a honey infused with cayenne. Everybody loves it!
Made for the first time and loved it. Didn’t make any adjustments.
It is perfect, no more manwich for this family! Thank you
Had everything on hand except the right color bell pepper. Tasted great. Love that it cooks in one pot
A very good 2nd time making this recipe
easy n yummy! just the way i dig it!
This is my go too right here…I just add a can Rotella with green chili …mmmmm…bomb baby!!!
Excellent recipe and so easy
Made it 2 days in a row since it was so popular with the family! It was years since last time I thought of this…. Replaced 1/2 cup water with 1/2 cup Bourbon and added 2 tbs Molasses. Use Keto buns and Keto ketchup and added 1/2 can tomato sauce. Came out awesome both days.
This is my second time making this recipe, and I really do like it. The only real change that I make is to only use one cup of water. When making the sauce, I mix all the ingredients in a bowl first. After sauteing the onions and garlic for about three minutes in a medium high heat skillet, I add the ground beef and fry it off, and drain the fat. After adding the sauce it’s only a matter waiting for the sauce to reduce. I cook mine in a cast iron skillet and don’t have any brown bits stuck to the bottom of the pan. So no need for the extra cup of water that would only serve to dilute the sauce. Change the recipe to only one cup of water and I’ll give it five duds stars.
I make it just as stated. We love it!
Love this recipe, it is our new go to. Only used 1 cup of water as it was perfect consistency without the second.
I have been making this recipe for years. Husband loves it and everyone else. I make it exactly like written except I don’t use 2 cups of water I only use 1, and at the end I add I/2 cup of pepsi or coke, it kind of caramelizes the sauce.
My husband’s most requested version of his childhood favorite!
made this last night for dinner …. was yummy! Definitely won’t be going back to canned 🙂
Home from work with the all familiar question, what to cook for supper? This recipe is easy and I had everything on hand. So no stopping at the store on my way home!! Plus, it tastes great!