Grammy's Kitchen · Sloppy Joes · Best Sloppy Joe
One of 151 sloppy joes recipes we measured
It ranks #1 of 151 for gravy quality among the sloppy joes recipes we compared. 10 cooks on kristineskitchenblog.com rate it 5.0★.
Every ingredient resolved to grams, expressed against the recipe's own base — next to the median of all 151.
| this recipe | typical | |
|---|---|---|
| fat | 0% | 1% |
| aromatics | 28% | 22% |
| sweetener | 33% | 23% |
| salt | 1% | 0% |
| vegetables and beans | 63% | 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.
| 454 g | 1 pound ground beef (or ground turkey) |
| 120 g | 3/4 cup chopped onion |
| 60 g | 1/2 green bell pepper (chopped) |
| 6 g | 2 cloves garlic (minced) |
| 227 g | 8 ounces tomato sauce |
| 136 g | 1/2 cup ketchup |
| 13 g | 1 tablespoon brown sugar |
| 11 g | 2 teaspoons Worcestershire sauce |
| 4 g | 1 teaspoon yellow mustard |
| 3 g | 1/2 teaspoon salt |
| 1 g | 1/4 teaspoon black pepper |
| 208 g | 4 hamburger buns (toasted, for serving) |
Method: 5 steps, published by kristineskitchenblog.com — open the original ↗ or use bake mode for a follow-along with a screen that stays on.
“Shana — July 10, 2025 @ 2:51 pm Reply This recipe looks bomb💪🏻 I work in a restaurant and I can cook all the fancy stuff from scratch so I never feel like cooking full blown meals when I am off! Easy dinners are a staple in my house. I’ll be trying this tonigh” — a cook
“Erma Coovert — August 4, 2023 @ 4:30 pm Reply I’m not much of a cook since my husband passed but I love your recipes. I’m an old fashioned person and your recipes do not call for stuff I never heard of. Gonna try a couple of then soon. I’m on Noom and I need m” — a cook