Great leftover if you buy extra ground beef at the store when making other dishes such as cottage pie or tacos. Don’t season the meat for the sloppy joes but divide the raw meat before cooking and save a pound of meat to make the next day for these sloppy joes!
Sloppy Joes can use the same base as the pasta fagioli soup, so reuse those chopped up veggies for two meals!
Sloppy Joes (from the book “A Year Full of Recipes”)
Ingredients:
- 1 lb ground beef (we used 85% but try grassfed or 90% lean)
- 1 onion, chopped
- 1 garlic clove, chopped or minced
- 1 green pepper, chopped
- leftover celery, zucchini, carrot, red pepper
- 1 TBS yellow mustard
- 1/2 cup ketchup
- 1 tsp white vinegar
- 1 TBS packed brown sugar
- pinch of chili pepper or paprika (sweet)
- hamburger buns
- salt and pepper to taste
(makes about 4-5 servings)
- Put the beef, onion, garlic, and green pepper and any other leftover chopped veggies into a nonstick skillet and cook over medium heat, stirring frequently and breaking up the beef with a wooden spoon, for 8-10 minutes, until the beef is evenly browned and cooked through. Drain fat.
- Stir in the mustard, ketchup, vinegar, brown sugar, and chili powder/paprika. Season with salt and pepper. Reduce heat and simmer, stirring occasionally, for 20-30 minutes.
- Divide the mixture among the burgers and serve.
Serve with 1-2 cups veggies such as green beans. Can be served with soup or soup can be made as its own recipe.