Sloppy Joes

American

Sloppy Joes

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Sloppy Joes is American home cooking, eaten at dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

30 min Easy

Ingredients

Serves
6

The quantities follow this count.

How to cook it

  1. Brown the ground beef in a skillet over medium-high heat, breaking it up, about 6 minutes, then drain excess fat.

  2. Add the onion, bell pepper, and garlic and cook until softened, about 5 minutes.

  3. Stir in the ketchup, tomato paste, Worcestershire, brown sugar, and mustard along with 1/2 cup water.

  4. Simmer until thick and saucy, about 8 minutes, then season with salt and pepper.

  5. Toast the buns and spoon the beef mixture onto the bottoms.

  6. Close the sandwiches and serve.

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Serve it with

A American dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Sloppy Joes, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Sloppy Joes carries gluten and fish. It is free of the remaining 8 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Sloppy Joes
Allergen In this dish Cook this instead
Peanuts No
Tree nuts No
Dairy No
Gluten Yes Sweet Potato and Black Bean Stew
Shellfish No
Eggs No
Soy No
Fish Yes Sweet Potato and Black Bean Stew
Sesame No
Coconut No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Estimated, per serving

Calories
360 kcal
Protein
20 g
Carbs
34 g
Fat
16 g
Fiber
2 g
Sugar
12 g
Sodium
620 mg
Saturated fat
6 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Sloppy Joes takes about 30 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.

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