Homemade Sloppy Joes

The formula

Every ingredient resolved to grams, expressed against the recipe's own base — next to the median of all 151.

	this recipe	typical
fat	6%	1%
aromatics	41%	22%
sweetener	10%	23%
salt	0%	0%
vegetables and beans	66%	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)

Ingredients

Weights computed by us.

27 g	1 to 3 tablespoons olive oil*
454 g	1 pound lean ground beef (can be made with ground turkey, ground chicken, or ground pork)
150 g	1 small white or yellow onion (diced small)
74 g	1/2 cup small diced green bell pepper
227 g	8 ounces tomato sauce (basic tomato sauce, not spaghetti sauce or anything fancier needed)
33 g	2 tablespoons tomato paste
34 g	2 tablespoon ketchup
13 g	1 tablespoon light brown sugar (packed; or more to taste)
16 g	1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
3 g	1 teaspoon garlic powder
2 g	1/2 teaspoon kosher salt (or to taste)
1 g	1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper (or to taste)
	Hamburger buns (for serving)

Method: 5 steps, published by www.averiecooks.com — open the original ↗ or use bake mode for a follow-along with a screen that stays on.

“This looks very similar to how I make sloppy joes so I know it will be delicious! A little trick I use when cooking with ground turkey but wanting a heartier flavor, like what you would get with ground beef, is to add a little (1 teaspoon) of beef flavored bet” — a cook

“We made this in the morning and put it in the fridge to have for dinner. It smelled so good while cooking, and tastes as good as it smells. I am not a fan of manwich, I know, Midwest sacrilege, but this is something I can see us making all fall ad winter. ” — a cook, 5★