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Ghouly Sloppy Joes

It's the season to have fun with food!  I love making my go-to recipes into a version of themselves that is fun and fanciful. These sloppy joes have been around f o r e v e r (as in my bridal shower recipe book!) and we make them every fall.  


Fun Fact


The Sloppy Joe sandwich is attributed to a cafe in Sioux City, Iowa where a cook named Joe added tomato sauce to his loose meat sandwiches!  We love our Sloppy Joes and have several ways of eating them.  We love them, especially in the fall, they are such a comfort food!


Do something a little extra with your Sloppy Joes this Halloween! Add a little cheese and some eyeball olives and watch your kids yell in delight!
Ghouly Sloppy Joes
Yield 6
Author Terri Steffes
Prep time
8 Min
Cook time
20 Min
Total time
28 Min

Ghouly Sloppy Joes

My go-to Sloppy Joe sandwich with some special, haunting touches!

Ingredients

  • 1 and 1/3 lbs 93% lean ground beef sirloin
  • 1 tbsp Chicago steak seasoning
  • 1 carrot, minced
  • 1 medium onion, minced
  • 2 cloves garlic, minced
  • 4 oz mushrooms, minced
  • 1 tbsp red wine vinegar
  • 1 tbsp Worcestershire sauce
  • 2 cups tomato sauce
  • 2 tbsp tomato paste
  • 4 slices of provolone
  • 12 olives
  • 12 toothpicks

Instructions

  1. Fine chop all veggies and set aside.
  2. Cook hamburger with steak seasoning, breaking up meat into small pieces.
  3. Add veggies and cook until tender, about 5 minutes.
  4. Add the rest of the ingredients and cook, stirring to combine.
  5. Cover, reduce heat to low, and cook for an additional five minutes.
  6. Spoon mixture on a bun.
  7. For each slice of provolone, cut jagged "teeth" on one side of the cheese and lay them on top of the hot filling. Top with the other half of the bun.
  8. Place an olive on a toothpick and stick it into the bun as one of the eyes. Place the other olive near it.
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Comments

  1. What a fund way to make sloppy joes, kids will love this!

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