Photo: Scott Elley's Sloppy Joes Recipe
Ingredients
- 35 pounds meatloaf mix (equal amounts of ground beef, ground veal and ground pork)
- 1 to 1-1/2 cups Worcestershire Sauce
- 6 large Spanish onions, coarsely chopped
- 6 red peppers, coarsely chopped
- 6 yellow peppers, coarsely chopped
- 6 orange peppers, coarsely chopped
- 6 green peppers, coarsely chopped
- Salt
- 2 tablespoons dried oregano
- 4 tablespoons granulated garlic
- 1 gallon barbeque sauce, homemade or store bought
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 36 sweet Italian pork sausages, casings removed
- 90-100 fresh hamburger buns or rolls, for serving
Directions
Divide the meatloaf mix between 2 large commercial-size pots and brown the meat for 3-5 minutes under a high flame. Drain most of the fat, leaving a little in for seasoning. Add the Worcestershire Sauce and mix well.
Divide the onions and peppers between the 2 pots, add salt and crush 1 tablespoon of the oregano between your hands into each pot. Divide the garlic between the two pots and stir everything together. Cook for 3 to 5 minutes. Add 1/2 gallon of barbeque sauce to each pot, cover and simmer over low heat for 30 minutes.
Heat the olive oil in 2 large frying pans, add the sausages and cook for about 5 to 8 minutes, until no longer pink. Drain any fat from the sausages.
Add the sausages from each frying pan to the pots of barbeque meatloaf mixture, and continue cooking, stirring occasionally, for about an hour.
Serve over hamburger buns.
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By Darly Quinn
on April 30, 2013
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I actually worked off of justjan's smaller version recipe review. I also made this recipe for 2. I used 1.25lb ground turkey that I browned. Then I diced and sautéed 1 medium onion and 2 medium bell peppers. I added 2 minced garlic cloves followed by the cooked ground turkey and then slowly introduced 2-3 tbs of Worcester and about 3/4 of 19oz bottle of bbq sauce that was made with molasses (no corn syrup that I added in over time and this dish came out AMA-ZING. I also feel this was the BEST Sloppy Joe we've ever had!
By justjan_5687583
Tolland, CT
on April 15, 2012
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I made this recipe, only for my husband and I so I had to guess at quantities. I wanted enough for 4 so there would be another meal mid-week. I used 1 lb of meat loaf mix (from our butcher and approx 1/2 lb sweet italian sausage, and then 1/2 of a red, green, and yellow pepper, one med/lg onion. I did cook the sausage with the meat mixture in a large kettle and that worked out just fine. I probably used 3 TBS of worcestershire, a pinch of oregeno and a tsp of garlic granules. I used the original Jack Daniels Bbq sauce, adding approx 1/2 of a 19oz bottle. It turned out absolutely delicious, the best sloppy joes I've had yet. Good job, Scott! I loved this episode!
By moktel
on January 30, 2012
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4.5 pounds of meatloaf mix
1/3 cup Worcestershire sauce
1 large Spanish onion
1 yellow pepper
1 orange pepper
1 green pepper
Salt
1 teaspoon dried oregano
2 teaspoons granulated garlic
1/2 quart barbeque sauce
5 sweet Itailian pork sausages
For 12 people turned out very well I was pleased Just follow the original directions. I am not a professional chef I just did some math.
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