Growing up, I can remember a few evenings when we “made it a Manwich night” and how quick, easy and good it was. Over here in Germany, you’re definitely not going to get your hands on a can of Manwich…but quite honestly, I wouldn’t want to. Making your own sloppy joes is nearly as easy as opening the can. And I would hope that you’ll find it tastes better with fresh ingredients anyway. For a real treat, you can make your own fresh buns also…then you’ll really feast.
I have actually been meaning to make buns and sloppy joes for a while now but making the buns just became a daunting task. So I broke down and bought some buns the other day and we finally chowed down on sloppy joes a few nights ago. Cheddar cheese makes these SO good. We usually eat ours open faced because trying to keep the meat inside the bun never seems to work out. You can even freeze some of the finished beef mixture and then have dinner ready in minutes.
And if you’ve never heard the “Sloppy Joe” song by Adam Sandler (where the name of this post comes from), please be sure to check it out!
Ingredients
- 1 pound lean ground beef
- 1/4 cup chopped onion
- 1/4 cup chopped green bell pepper
- 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1 teaspoon prepared yellow mustard
- 3/4 cup ketchup
- 2 teaspoons brown sugar
- 2 teaspoons cider vinegar
- 1 teaspoon Worchestershire sauce
- Salt to taste
- ground black pepper to taste
Instructions
- In a medium skillet over medium heat, brown the ground beef, onion, and green pepper; drain off liquids.
- Stir in the garlic powder, mustard, ketchup, and brown sugar; mix thoroughly. Reduce heat, and simmer for 30 minutes. Season with salt and pepper.
- Serve on hamburger buns. Or try it over pasta for something different.
Love sloppy joes but never had it in a sandwich. I don’t know how or why but I have it with mash potatoes. Weird I know but I love it.
How did I find you? Totally unrelated but it was a picture on pinterest regarding a campmate from 2011. I rediscovered camping in 2012 and thus began an obsessive unhealthy need to “collect” campmates (4) and other camp kitchen boxes from 2014 thru 2016. 🤦♀️
My husband and daughter once accidentally had sloppy joes as a pasta sauce (the result of thawing an unmarked freezer meal which they thought was sauce) and they loved it. I imagine on mashed potatoes would be really tasty!
We still have our CampMate and adore it. Still one of the smartest kitchen boxes ever created. You can literally put EVERYTHING inside it!! Thanks for sharing!!