Slow Cooker Sloppy Joes
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Forget about those cans of sloppy joe sauce. You don’t need ‘em. These slow cooker sloppy joes are just as easy to make, and they’re tastier and healthier, too.
Just spend five minutes prepping the ingredients, and let your slow cooker take it from there.
Slow Cooker Sloppy Joes Recipe
Prep Time:
5 minutes
Cook Time:
4 hours
Ingredients:
What You Do:
In a frying pan over medium-high heat, brown the ground beef. Then, drain the fat.
Add the ground beef and all of the other ingredients to your crockpot. Stir well to combine. Cover, and cook on low for four hours, stirring occasionally.
The peppers and onions will release their juices as they cook. If there’s a little more liquid than you’d like at the end of the cooking time, just remove the lid, and cook your sloppy joes a bit longer.
Serve these slow cooker sloppy joes warm on hamburger buns. This recipe doubles and triples beautifully. I like to make extra, so we’ll have leftovers for the next day.
Slow Cooker Sloppy Joes
This slow cooker sloppy joes recipe is as tasty as it is easy. Only 5 minutes of prep, and dinner is done.
- Total Time: 4 hours 5 minutes
- Yield: 6 sandwiches 1x
Ingredients
- 1 pound ground beef
- 1 medium onion, chopped
- 1 bell pepper
- 3/4 cup ketchup
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 2 tablespoons brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon Dijon mustard
- 1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper
Instructions
Brown and drain the ground beef.
Combine all the ingredients in your slow cooker. Cover, and cook on low for 4 hours, stirring occasionally.
The peppers and onions will release their juices as they cook. If there’s a little more liquid than you’d like at the end of the cooking time, just remove the lid, and cook the sloppy joes a bit longer.
Serve warm on hamburger buns. This recipe doubles and triples beautifully.
- Prep Time: 5 minutes
- Cook Time: 4 hours (on low)
- Category: Dinners
- Method: Slow Cooker
- Cuisine: American
Keywords: slow cooker sloppy joes, slow cooker sloppy joe recipe
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This recipe is very similar to the one I got in high school cooking class and still use. But switching to the crock pot is genius! Thanks Erin!
Yep, making sloppy joes in the crockpot is a real winner. You get the benefit of a long cooking time, without having to stand by the stove forever. I used to make someone else’s stove-top sloppy joe recipe, but it was a lot more complicated and time-consuming (so I didn’t make it very often). A while back, I decided to see if I could create my own simpler version and this recipe is the result. My friend teases me about how much I love (and use) my crockpots, but you can’t beat having dinner ready at the end of the day, and this smells amazing when it’s cooking 🙂
Much better way to make Sloppy Joes. I’m not a meat eater but mixers like that and processed foods are full of salt , loaded with sugar and lots of ingredients you can’t pronounce or even know what they are.
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This recipe sounds yummy! My favorite crock pot is the one my mom gave me from the 80’s and it still works great. Like you mentioned, it doesn’t get as hot. It has an awesome feature called auto-shift… it starts on high for 1 hr, then goes automatically to low. I know there are newer programmable crock pots out today, but I don’t know if they’ll measure up to my old classic! Thanks for the recipe. I’m going to make it this weekend.
Yep, the old crockpots are loads better. I have one from the 80s, too. I still use it regularly. Hope you enjoy the recipe 🙂