Bubba's Sloppy Joes recipe

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Ingredients

3 tablespoons butter
6 cloves garlic, minced
1 large sweet onion (such as Vidalia®), chopped
1 large green bell pepper, chopped
¼ cup chopped fresh cilantro
2 pounds ground beef
¼ cup brown sugar
2 tablespoons prepared yellow mustard (such as Colman's®)
1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
1 teaspoon Italian seasoning
1 teaspoon onion powder
¾ teaspoon Greek seasoning (such as Cavender's®), or more to taste
½ teaspoon hamburger seasoning (such as McCormick® Grill Mates®), or more to taste
½ teaspoon garlic powder
½ teaspoon ground black pepper
½ teaspoon smokehouse maple seasoning (such as McCormick® Grill Mates®), or more to taste
¼ teaspoon hickory smoked salt (such as McCormick®), or more to taste
2 pinches ground nutmeg, or more to taste
2 cups barbeque sauce (such as Sweet Baby Ray's®)
1 cup ketchup
2 tablespoons apple cider vinegar
12 hamburger buns

Nutrition Info

400.9 calories
carbohydrate: 49.7 g
cholesterol: 54.9 mg
fat: 14.6 g
fiber: 2.2 g
protein: 17.3 g
saturatedFat: 6 g
servingSize: -
sodium: 1141.5 mg
sugar: 21.1 g
transFat: : -
unsaturatedFat: : -

Directions

  1. Melt butter in a skillet over medium heat. Cook and stir garlic in hot butter until fragrant, 1 to 2 minutes. Stir onion, green pepper, and cilantro into garlic, cook and stir until the onion is softened, 5 to 10 minutes.

  2. Cook and stir ground beef in a large skillet over medium heat until browned, 5 to 10 minutes, drain fat. Increase heat to medium-high. Stir brown sugar, mustard, Worcestershire sauce, Italian seasoning, onion powder, Greek seasoning, hamburger seasoning, garlic powder, black pepper, smokehouse maple seasoning, smoked salt, and nutmeg into ground beef mixture, cook until boiling, 4 to 6 minutes.

  3. Stir onion mixture into beef mixture, reduce heat to simmer.

  4. Pour barbeque sauce, ketchup, and apple cider vinegar into beef mixture, stir, cover, and simmer until sauce is thickened, 30 minutes. Scoop beef into hamburger buns and serve.

Recipe Yield

12 servings

Recipe Note

Good ol' boy Sloppy Joes.

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