The Best Homemade Beef Sloppy Joes Recipe - Food.com (2024)

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How do you make sloppy joes better? ›

Try serving your sloppy joes with their own toppings such as slaw, melty cheese, grilled pineapple, or Hatch green chile. Even just adding a pickle gives extra flavor and crunch, transforming it from a bland sandwich into something great, like the recipe below!

What is the difference between Manwich and Sloppy Joes? Sloppy Joes are the sandwich, while Manwich is the store-bought canned sloppy joe sauce, produced by ConAgra Foods and Hunt's. While the brand markets this product as a quick and easy one-pan meal, I strongly recommend you make the sauce from scratch.

Do you drain the meat for sloppy joes? We suggest draining the browned beef, because excess grease serves as a barrier to sloppy joe seasonings. You'll want the beef to absorb these wonderful flavors as it cooks.

Cook beef in large skillet over medium-high heat 7 minutes or until crumbled and no longer pink, stirring occasionally; drain. Stir in Sloppy Joe sauce; heat through.

Many believe the Sloppy Joe is the namesake of a Sioux City, Iowa cook, who in 1930, combined the regionally popular loose meat sandwich with tomato sauce. It's less messy predecessor, the loose meat sandwich is a Midwestern favorite of steamed or sauteed ground beef, onions, mustard and pickles.

There are minor variations depending on the deli, but it is always a double-decker thin sliced rye bread sandwich made with one or more types of sliced deli meat, such as turkey, ham, pastrami, corned beef, roast beef, or sliced beef tongue, along with Swiss cheese, coleslaw, and Russian dressing.

Manwich, slush burger, yum yums, dynamite, spoonburgers, tavern sandwich; a Sloppy Joe can be called by many other names. The most well-known however is Manwich.

Just use your can of tomatoes, a clove or two of minced garlic, a diced onion and some basil or oregano. Saute the onion, add the garlic and cook just until you start to smell the aroma, then add the tomatoes and spices.

How many people will 1 lb of sloppy joes feed? ›

Because this easy sloppy joe recipe is loaded with ground beef plus an equal amount of veggies, one pound of ground beef is enough to make 8-10 sloppy joe sandwiches.

My mom always made sloppy joes with sauce from a can. Remember that stuff? If you use that, you have to try this easy homemade version that is so much tastier! This recipe uses 2 lbs of ground beef and serves about 8 people.

I use 2lbs ground beef to create eight burger patties, so each burger is 1/4lb.

Calculate 8 ounces (1/2 pound) per adult after shrinkage and drip loss which can be up to 20%. So 25 * 0.5 = 12.5 pounds + about 3 pounds or shrinkage = 15.5 pounds. If you have leftovers, well, you can have sandwiches the day after! I figure 1/2 pound cooked beef per person.

Proper "Sloppy Joe" is a mixture of ground beef, a touch of pork, tomato sauce, spices, a bit of Romano cheese and served over a plate of #9 spaghett. Sharp cheddar is probably the way to go, but I have on a few occasions topped sloppy joe's with blue cheese crumbles or Swiss cheese.

Just use your can of tomatoes, a clove or two of minced garlic, a diced onion and some basil or oregano. Saute the onion, add the garlic and cook just until you start to smell the aroma, then add the tomatoes and spices.