Homemade Sloppy Joes Recipe
This Homemade Sloppy Joes recipe is one of my favorite, easy dinners. These sloppy joes are made with 8 real ingredients and can be served as sandwiches or as sloppy joe bowls!
Servings: 8 Servings
Cost: $8
Ingredients
- 2 pounds ground beef
- 1 onion diced
- 2 Tablespoons minced garlic
- 15 oz tomato sauce
- 2 teaspoons sea salt
- ¼ tsp paprika
- ¼ teaspoon black pepper
- 3 Tablespoons olive oil
- 3 Tablespoons honey
Instructions
- Cook the ground beef, onion and garlic in a large, nonstick skillet or cast iron pan over medium heat, breaking the meat up into small pieces until it is no longer pink.
- Then, add the tomato sauce, sea salt, paprika, black pepper, olive oil and honey and stir to combine.
- Cook uncovered over medium heat, until the mixture comes to a boil.
- Then, reduce the heat and simmer, uncovered, for 20 minutes or until the sauce has thickened slightly.
- Serve:
- You can serve these as traditional sloppy joes on buns, or as sloppy joe bowls (our preference).
- Sloppy Joe Bowls
- To serve as sloppy joe bowls, cook 1 cup white rice in 2 cups water (according to package instructions).
- Then, serve sloppy joe mixture over rice with cheddar cheese, black olives, cilantro, etc.
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Notes
Note: I often shred 1 zucchini into the mixture and cook it with the ground beef and onion. No one can tell!
Ingredient Substitution Notes
- Ground beef. I suggest 93/7% or 85/15% lean ground beef for the best results.
- Onion. Use yellow, white or red on onion.
- Minced garlic. freshly minced or jarred are both great choices.
- Fine sea salt. I use Redmond fine sea salt in this recipe and I really think it's amazing! But any sea salt works well.
- Tomato sauce. I use organic tomato sauce. You can use canned or homemade.
- Olive oil. Avocado oil is a good substitute.
- Honey. I don't suggest substitutes, but granulated or brown sugar do both work in place of honey.
- Sour cream
- Shredded cheddar cheese
- Sliced olives (black or green),
- Diced red or green onions
- Avocado
- Chopped Cilantro