These crowd-pleasing Sloppy Joe sandwiches will take you back to your childhood! This is my mom's recipe and it always gets compliments!
Ingredients
- lean ground beef: 1 pound
- onion: 0.25 cup (chopped)
- green bell pepper: 0.25 cup (chopped)
- ketchup: 0.75 cup (to taste)
- brown sugar: 1 Tbsp (to taste)
- yellow mustard: 1 tsp (to taste)
- garlic powder: 0.5 tsp
- salt and ground black pepper: 0 piece (to taste)
- hamburger buns: 6 piece (split)
Metric Conversion
Stages of cooking
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Heat a large skillet over medium heat. Cook and stir lean ground beef in the hot skillet until some of the fat starts to render, 3 to 4 minutes. Add onion and bell pepper; continue to cook until vegetables have softened and beef is cooked through, 3 to 5 more minutes.
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Stir in ketchup, brown sugar, mustard, and garlic powder; season with salt and pepper. Reduce heat to low and simmer for 20 to 30 minutes.
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Divide meat mixture evenly among hamburger buns.
