Slow Cooker Sloppy Joes

Delicious sloppy Joes all done in the slow cooker! With simple ingredients, it’s easy to feed the whole family.

This is my grandma’s old fashioned recipe for sloppy Joes, then I added a few tweaks to it.

First I swapped the ground beef out for ground turkey, because, why not? You can’t taste the difference, but you can use ground beef if you prefer!

Second, I love to make these as a summer dish, but I hate getting the kitchen hot from using the oven and stove. So I threw everything in the slow cooker and it turned out fantastic!

Also sometimes I add green pepper, sometimes I don’t, depending on my mood! I like to add my green pepper towards the end so it stays a little crunchy. If you don’t prefer it this way just add it in the beginning so it cooks all the way. 

Don’t forget to toast the buns, makes it that much more delicious! I like to use little buns, or even slider buns for these, just makes them a little less…sloppy.lol.

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Ingredients for Slow Cooker Sloppy Joes

1 pound ground beef, or ground turkey

1/2 onion, chopped

1/2 green pepper, chopped

1 1/2 cups ketchup

1 Tablespoon Worcestershire sauce

2 Tablespoons brown sugar

2 Tablespoons pickle relish

1/8 teaspoon salt

1/8 teaspoon black pepper

8-10 buns

2 Tablespoons butter

How to make Slow Cooker Sloppy Joes

Chop up the half of onion and the half of green pepper into small pieces.

Put the onion in the slow cooker along with all the other ingredients.

I like to add the green pepper at the end so it stays a bit crunchy, but you can add it in the beginning if you prefer it cooked all the way.

After about 30 minutes of cooking, stir everything together and break up the meat.

Continue to cook for another couple hours.

Add in the green pepper during the last 30 minutes, if you like it on the crunchy side. If not add it in the beginning to let it cook all the way.

Butter the inside of the buns and toast them on a skillet on the stovetop until nice and browned.

Remove and divide sloppy Joe mixture on the buns.

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