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	5%	1%
aromatics	34%	22%
sweetener	0%	23%
salt	1%	0%
vegetables and beans	91%	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.

567 g	1 1/4 lb 90% lean ground beef
2 g	1/2 teaspoon baking soda
28 g	2 tablespoons unsalted butter, (plus more for buns)
150 g	1 medium yellow onion, (finely diced)
120 g	1 small red bell pepper, (finely diced)
9 g	3 cloves garlic, (roughly chopped)
4 g	3/4 teaspoon salt
1 g	1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
3 g	1 1/2 teaspoons smoked paprika
2 g	3/4 teaspoon ground cumin
1 g	1/2 teaspoon dried oregano
3 g	3/4 teaspoon dry mustard
397 g	1 (14-oz) can tomato sauce
33 g	2 tablespoons tomato paste
16 g	1 tablespoon Worcestershire Sauce
1 g	1/2 teaspoon hot pepper sauce, (such as Tabasco or Frank's, or to taste)
	Hamburger buns

Method: 6 steps, published by www.onceuponachef.com — open the original ↗ or use bake mode for a follow-along with a screen that stays on.

“It is pretty good, turned out well and directions very clear. However on the second making of this I was curious about something because the spice blend essentially smelled like taco seasoning. So second time I skipped all the spices except the oregano and use” — a cook, 4★

“I always make your recipes exactly as is and unfortunately, this is the first and only of the 30+ I’ve tried that was not a hit. I think it was mostly because it didn’t taste like grandma’s recipe that was a sweeter sloppy Joe (even with the brown sugar) and t” — a cook, 3★