This Homemade Sloppy Joe Recipe makes a quick and easy dinner that you can make for the entire family for just $5 including the side dishes!
Homemade Sloppy Joe Recipe
Homemade Sloppy Joe sandwiches make a quick and easy dinner that you can make for the entire family for just $5 including the sides! You’ll find our super easy recipe below!
These sandwiches are known by a variety of names including Manwich. If you see a recipe for a homemade Manwich recipe, it would be essentially the same recipe as a sloppy joe recipe.
Sloppy Joe is a popular classic American sandwich dating back to the early 20th century. Sloppy Joes usually include ground beef, onions, tomato sauce or ketchup, Worcestershire sauce, and other seasonings, but the ingredients can vary.
Sloppy Joe sandwiches are most often served on a hamburger bun, but you can serve them on regular bread, French bread or fancy dinner rolls if you like. If you serve them on sandwich bread, you might want to toast the bread first if you use a lot of the sauce so it doesn’t get soggy.
This easy homemade Sloppy Joe recipe is perfect for families with kids as everyone loves them, even picky eaters! I have served it frequently to my family over the years because it’s so quick and easy to make when I’m not feeling great and it’s an easy meal I can make for the whole family for just $5.
You can make your own Sloppy Joes and it only takes about 10 minutes to make with ingredients you already have in your refrigerator. No need to buy a box mix or a can of sauce. This homemade recipe is just as easy and a lot cheaper than buying a pre-made mix at the store.
I save time by cooking 5 pounds of ground beef at once and then dividing it into freezer bags. I don’t even have to brown the ground beef because I cooked it before I froze it. Then I just thaw the amount I need and throw it into the pan to warm and serve.
My easy Sloppy Joe recipe is made with ketchup, brown sugar and Worcestershire sauce and these give it a very delicious taste. I don’t like my Sloppy Joe sandwiches too saucy (I think the recipe below is perfect), but if you prefer more sauce, you can increase the sauce ingredients as much as you like as long as you keep the proportion of the sauce ingredients the same.
This Sloppy Joe recipe goes great with a salad or sliced fruit and dinner is fast, easy and cheap! I of the serve them with something simple, like grapes, sliced cucumbers, baby carrots, French fries or tater tots. You can also make a pan of brownies or lemon bars to go with it.
Homemade Sloppy Joe sandwiches are a great dinner to make during the summer and if you are going to a sports event you can make it ahead in the morning and then just warm it up when you get home.You can put this in the crockpot on low for 1-2 hours but it’s so fast and easy that I usually just use the stovetop.
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This Homemade Sloppy Joe Recipe makes a quick and easy dinner that you can make for the entire family for just $5 including the side dishes!
Author:Tawra Kellam
Prep Time:5 minutes
Cook Time:10 minutes
Total Time:15 minutes
Yield:4 servings
Category:main dishes
Method:stovetop
Cuisine:American
Diet:Gluten Free
Ingredients
Units
1lb. ground beef 1 medium onion, chopped or 1/2 tsp. onion powder 1/2 tsp. garlic powder 5 Tbsp. ketchup 2 tsp brown sugar 1/8 tsp. lemon juice 1 Tbsp. Worcestershire sauce 1/2 tsp. salt hamburger buns (If gluten free, use GF buns.)
Instructions
Brown meat and onion until the onion is tender.
Drain the fat.
Add the remaining ingredients.
Heat thoroughly, stirring to mix all of the ingredients.
Serve on hamburger buns. Serves 6.
Notes
This recipe can easily be doubled or tripled and you can make several batches and freeze ahead of time. Then just thaw and serve.
If you use a 5 pound chub of ground beef, that cuts the price down even more.
To save a lot on ground beef: If you get 73% ground beef, you can cook out and drain off the excess fat and the price is still a lot cheaper than buying 93% lean ground beef.
What is the sloppy joe sauce made of? It's made with ketchup, brown sugar, tomato paste, Worcestershire, chili powder, garlic, dry mustard, and a little Tobasco (if you want). That sauce coats the ground beef, onion, and bell pepper to make the filling.
Add Veggies: Diced bell peppers, zucchini, spinach, or shredded carrot, can easily be added to this recipe and your kids won't even notice a difference. Hawaiian Sloppy Joes: Substitute more BBQ sauce for the ketchup and add 8 oz., drained crushed pineapple.
The stuffed pepper sloppy joe is another combo that mixes the sandwich with another popular dish, swapping buns for bell peppers. If you're aiming to eat a lower-fat diet, then consider fixing yourself a sloppy jane. This variant on the sloppy joe swaps out regular ground beef for leaner beef.
What is the difference between Manwich and Sloppy Joes? Sloppy Joes are the sandwich, while Manwich is the store-bought canned sloppy joe sauce, produced by ConAgra Foods and Hunt's. While the brand markets this product as a quick and easy one-pan meal, I strongly recommend you make the sauce from scratch.
A sloppy joe is made up of ground beef ( I have used turkey burger for mine), ketchup or tomato sauce,onions, slat, black pepper, Worcestershire sauce and whole host of other seasonings ( I've put habanero hot sauce in mine).
There are minor variations depending on the deli, but it is always a double-decker thin sliced rye bread sandwich made with one or more types of sliced deli meat, such as turkey, ham, pastrami, corned beef, roast beef, or sliced beef tongue, along with Swiss cheese, coleslaw, and Russian dressing.
Manwich, slush burger, yum yums, dynamite, spoonburgers, tavern sandwich; a Sloppy Joe can be called by many other names. The most well-known however is Manwich.
You don't have to dash out to the store if you're out of tomato paste; tomato sauce and tomato puree are both an excellent substitute. For every 1 tablespoon of tomato paste needed, use 3 tablespoons of tomato puree or sauce.
One recent ad campaign from Manwich was fairly controversial
The ad campaign featured men being slapped for exhibiting traits perceived to be more "effeminate," including caring about your hair, loving musicals, or liking shoes, according to Queerty.
A sloppy joe seasoning packet is just a combination of spices like chili powder, paprika, dry mustard, garlic powder, and minced onion. They also include dried green pepper flakes, cornstarch, and (¼ teaspoon) celery seed.
Manwich, a portmanteau of man and sandwich, is the brand name of a canned sloppy joe sauce produced by ConAgra Foods and Hunt's, introduced in 1969. The can contains seasoned tomato sauce that is added to ground beef cooked in a skillet. It is marketed as a quick and easy one-pan meal for the whole family.
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