Crock Pot Sloppy Joes are an easy, family-friendly slow cooker meal. Ground beef is slow cooked with tomato sauce, ketchup, brown sugar, and spices until supremely flavorful.
Course Main Dish
Cuisine Southern
Keyword ground beef recipes
Prep Time 15 minutesminutes
Cook Time 2 hourshours
Servings 8
Ingredients
2poundsground beef
1cupdiced onion
1(8-ounce) cantomato sauce
1(6-ounce) cantomato paste
1/3cupketchup
1/3cuppacked light brown sugar
3tablespoonssoy sauce
1tablespoonDijon mustard
1/2teaspoongarlic powder
Instructions
Brown ground beef in a large nonstick skillet, breaking it apart as it cooks. Once you have it broken up, add the onion. Continue to cook until no longer pink.
Use a slotted spoon to transfer ground beef mixture to a 6-quart crock pot, leaving as much of the grease behind as possible.
Add remaining ingredients and stir well.
Cover and cook on LOW for 2 to 4 hours.
Serve on toasted buns.
Notes
To make your sloppy joes spicy, add 1/2 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes or a finely chopped jalapeno.