Grammy's Kitchen · Sloppy Joes · Best Ever Sloppy Joes
One of 151 sloppy joes recipes we measured
60 cooks on www.simplyrecipes.com rate it 4.8★.
Every ingredient resolved to grams, expressed against the recipe's own base — next to the median of all 151.
| this recipe | typical | |
|---|---|---|
| fat | 2% | 1% |
| aromatics | 29% | 22% |
| acid | 3% | 0% |
| sweetener | 28% | 23% |
| salt | 1% | 0% |
| vegetables and beans | 95% | 34% |
| collagen idx | 0.8 | 0.8 |
| marbling idx | 0.6 | 0.6 |
Adapts cleanly: dairy-free, egg-free, nut-free (documented swaps, applied on the dish page)
Weights computed by us.
| 14 g | 1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil |
| 64 g | 1/2 cup minced carrots (can sub chopped bell pepper) |
| 160 g | 1 cup finely chopped onion (about 1 medium onion) |
| 50 g | 1/2 cup finely chopped celery |
| 6 g | 2 cloves garlic, minced |
| 3 g | 1/2 teaspoon salt |
| 567 g | 1 1/4 pound ground beef |
| 136 g | 1/2 cup ketchup |
| 425 g | 2 cups tomato sauce (or 1 15-ounce can whole tomatoes, puréed) |
| 16 g | 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce |
| 15 g | 1 tablespoon red wine vinegar |
| 20 g | 1 1/2 tablespoons brown sugar |
| Pinch ground cloves | |
| 1 g | 1/2 teaspoon dried thyme |
| Pinch cayenne pepper | |
| 4 g | 2 turns of freshly ground black pepper |
| 208 g | 4 hamburger buns |
Method: 5 steps, published by www.simplyrecipes.com — open the original ↗ or use bake mode for a follow-along with a screen that stays on.
“A really nice way to stretch the meat in Sloppy Joes and sneak in veggies is to add in 1 1/2 cups of shredded cabbage for approx. every cup of meat in sloppy joes. You add it in in the onion stage, and cook it til it's crisp-tender. It gets soft and soaks in t” — a cook
“Oh my! I haven't had Sloppy Joes in years and I think we always used the packet and tomato paste but this is one of the best things I ever had from this website and I have made a lot of your recipes ( and loved nearly all of them!) I did add a little spicy bro” — a cook