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A sloppy Joe is ground beef cooked with a spicy tomato sauce in a hamburger bun sandwich. It’s an American favorite and kids love it because it can be really messy to eat. While it’s perfectly fine to use just ground beef to make sloppy Joe, this slow cooker recipe also calls for ground pork sausage. This simple addition makes a more flavorful filling to the classic sandwich.

The following ingredients make 8-10 servings and will fit in a 4 1/2-quart slow cooker:

1/2 kilo of lean ground beef (about 1 1/2 pounds)
1 pound of pork sausage, in bulk
1 chopped bell pepper
1 chopped onion
1 cup of tomato sauce (8-oz. can)
1/2 cup of chili sauce (comes in a bottle, prepared)
1 Tbsp. sugar (use brown, if it is available)
A dash of salt and pepper

Start off this slow cooker, sloppy Joe recipe by sautéing the chopped onion and bell pepper for five minutes then add in the ground beef and sausage meat. Keep stirring and breaking up the meats as you go to prevent lumps. It will take about 10 minutes until the meats have browned and when that is done, dump the sautéed ingredients in a colander to drain the excess oil off.

When most of the oil has dripped off, put the sauté in the slow cooker. Add the rest of the ingredients (tomato sauce, chili sauce, brown sugar, salt and pepper) in as well. Stir it for a bit and put the slow cooker cover on. Set the slow cooker on “high” and cook the sloppy Joe for four hours. It can also be done in 8-10 hours if you put it on “low” depending on when you want it to finish cooking.

If you want your sloppy Joe to be spicier, dash in a few drops of hot sauce after it is done. If you want it sweeter, you can also put in an extra tablespoon of brown sugar in the preparation.

Toast your hamburger buns for a bit and serve this American classic with a side of fries and cold coleslaw. What’s great about this is you can set the slow cooker on the counter and every one can help themselves and make their own sloppy Joe. For a party, it can be a dip for tortilla chips too. Don’t forget to get plenty of paper towels out because this saucy sloppy Joe is messy and as it is yummy!

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