HOMEMADE CROCK POT SLOPPY JOES
Skip the can with these homemade Crock Pot Sloppy Joes! Ground beef, tomato sauce and delicious seasonings make these the easiest and best sloppy joes! Is there any food better than the food from our childhood? I bet all of us can name at least 5 foods that we ate as a kid that we will always love and remember. This is definitely one of them for me!
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TIPS FOR MAKING THE BEST SLOPPY JOES:
Now, I ain’t got no problem with good ole Manwich in a can. I like it. My Mom used it often and I still use it today. But it’s kinda like spaghetti sauce. Sometimes you want to make it up from scratch when you have time. And you get such great flavor and hopefully enough leftovers to freeze for later. I’m making this Sloppy Joe filling in the slow cooker. I think it gets tastier as it simmers away gently in the crock pot. But you can definitely make these on the stove top (see notes below.)
WHAT YOU’LL NEED:
ground beef
onion
tomato sauce
ketchup
water
light brown sugar
all-purpose flour
chili powder
garlic powder
apple cider vinegar
yellow mustard
Worcestershire sauce
salt & pepper
American cheese (optional)
hamburger buns
HOW TO MAKE CROCK POT SLOPPY JOES:
Put cooked ground beef mixture into your slow cooker. Add in the rest of your ingredients (except cheese and hamburger buns, obviously) 😉
Give it all a good stir. Cover and cook on low for about 4-6 hours.
Cook’s Notes: To make this on the stove top, brown ground beef and onion in a large pot. Drain excess grease and return beef mixture to pot. Stir in the rest of the ingredients (omit the flour.) Bring mixture to a boil. Cover and reduce heat to medium low and allow it to simmer for about 30 minutes.
Enjoy!
Originally posted: September 2012
Updated: December 2018
CROCK POT SLOPPY JOES
Ingredients
- 2 pounds ground beef
- 1 small onion, finely chopped
- 1 8 oz can tomato sauce
- 1/2 cup ketchup
- 1/2 cup water
- 1/4 cup light brown sugar, packed
- 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 tbsp chili powder
- 1/4 tsp garlic powder
- 1 tbsp cider vinegar
- 2 tbsp yellow mustard
- 1 tbsp Worcestershire sauce
- salt & pepper, to taste
- 8 slices cheese (optional)
- 8 Hamburger Buns toasted
Instructions
- In a large pan, brown ground beef with chopped onion.
- Crumble and cook until no longer pink.
- Drain excess grease.
- Put ground beef mixture into your slow cooker.
- Add in the rest of your ingredients (except hamburger buns and cheese)
- Give it all a good stir.
- Cover and cook on low for about 4-6 hours.
- When ready to serve, toast your hamburger buns.
- Place filling on buns.
- Add a slice of cheese to each.
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Notes
Then put in the buns and toast until golden brown.
Nutrition
Crock Pot Sloppy Joe Casserole
Love, love this recipe. So tasty, hearty, and easy!
Love hearing that! Thanks so much Beth!
Can you use ground turkey instead of ground beef
My hubby will LOVE this. I’ll be using ground venison, which will make him love it even more. I do like the thought of using ground turkey or chicken option as well. Thanks for the recipe! Great website, by the way. I recently started getting your emails with the weekly meal plan and am enjoying them very much.
I recently found your blog and I have to say, everything I’ve found so far always looks so, so, yummy!! I tried your baked ziti recipe that was really good and easy to make. This one looks like a must try too. I love sloppy joe and haven’t had it in a while so I may just have to make this soon. Thanks for sharing
This was SO good! Our new favorite!
Have made this for just me and have doubled for extra leftovers. I’ve also uses shredded mozzarella cheese and is yummy that way ad well. I love cheese and to me it tastes better with mozzarella. Not saying that the other way isn’t good as I did like it.
I made the sauce and then realized it was for 2 lbs of ground beef instead of 1 lb (which I have). Can I keep the extra sauce in the fridge for awhile?
Cider vinegar is listed as in ingredient. Is that apple cider vinegar? I just wanted to make sure.
Hi Jennifer, you are correct! 🙂
Best sloppy joe I’ve had to date. Just the right amount of spice and sweetness. Great balance of saucy but still has the “sloppy” part. This is a keeper in my home!!!!!!
Woo hoo! Love hearing that Dee!! Thank you SO much!
I see there is flour in this but it says only add if in crock pot & not on stovetop. Is the reason you add flour to the crockpot version is to help it thicken & to cook down so not runny ?? I’d love an answer because I’d like to try, hopefully for Labor Day. We like a thicker sloppy Joe :)) thanks so much 🙂
Hi Sandy – that’s exactly right! Hope you love it!
So, so good – thank you!!