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Healthier for you Sloppy Joes with Beans

Originally Posted October 7, 2018 by Ronda Eagle 11 Comments

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Sloppy Joes are the perfect one skillet meal for not only a busy weeknight, but they are perfect to feed a crowd — like on game day. Adding beans makes them not only healthier for you but also very budget conscious.


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Sloppy Joes are the perfect one skillet meal for not only a busy weeknight, but they are also perfect for feeding a crowd — like on game day. Everyone can just grab a bun and make their own as they please and it keeps dinnertime or entertaining a crowd easy, and relaxing. So to bulk up our Sloppy Joes and make them a little more nutritious, I’ve been adding pinto or black beans into our traditional recipe, and you know, my family liked it even better than the original. It wasn’t until I saw something similar this month in Cooking Light Magazine that I realized I had not shared our sloppy Joes recipe with you yet! It’s quick and easy to make these Sloppy Joes, too — just 15 minutes is all you need. Pair it with some fresh vegetables, and you have the perfect, quick, skillet dinner. Sometimes it’s the simplest things that turn out the best – like these healthier Sloppy Joes!

A pan of sloppy joes

Now, for me, I often don’t even worry about eating this on bread or a bun but when I serve these to my family or for friends while entertaining,  I serve it on whole wheat buns — again to make them a little more healthy for us and to sneak another serving of fiber into my family’s diet. Beans are a super-foods and we’ve been trying to work them more often into our diet — they are full of protein and fiber and have other health benefits as well. According to WebMd, “the latest dietary guidelines recommend we triple our current intake [of beans] from 1 to 3 cups per week.”  This recipe will surely get us started toward that goal!

Sloppy joe sandwich on a whole wheat bun on a plate with lettuce, tomatoes, and pickles.

You can use any beans you prefer just be sure to both drain and rinse them before adding them to the skillet. This significantly reduces the amount of sodium in the recipe just by rinsing of the liquid used in canning the beans. I’ve added a little Worcestershire sauce which intensifies the flavor of the beef but if you don’t care for Worcestershire sauce simply omit it from the recipe. This recipe can be made meatless by using tofu crumbles in place of the ground beef. Alternatively, if you prefer ground turkey over beef, you can substitute that here as well.  My husband liked these so much, he asked it be added to our regular rotation — so that’s really saying a lot.

Close up of a sloppy joe sandwich on a whole wheat bun

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Sloppy Joes are the perfect one skillet meal for not only a busy weeknight, but they are perfect to feed a crowd -- like on game day.

Sloppy Joes with Beans


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  • Author: Ronda Eagle | Kitchen Dreaming
  • Prep Time: 10 minutes
  • Cook Time: 20 minutes
  • Total Time: 30 minutes
  • Yield: 4 -6 servings
  • Category: dinner, game day, 30-minute meals
  • Method: stove top
  • Cuisine: American
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Sloppy Joes are the perfect one skillet meal for not only a busy weeknight, but they are perfect to feed a crowd — like on game day. Adding makes them not only healthier for you but also budget conscious.


Ingredients

  • 1 pound lean ground beef (90% or higher)
  • 1 onion, diced
  • 4 cloves garlic, minced
  • 1/2 bell pepper, diced
  • 1/2 red pepper, diced
  • 2 cans small red kidney beans, pinto beans or black beans, drained and rinsed
  • 2 cups (15 oz can) tomato sauce
  • 2 tablespoons tomato paste
  • 1 tablespoon brown sugar
  • 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
  • 1 teaspoon prepared mustard
  • salt and pepper to taste

Instructions

  1. Brown the meat and the onion in a large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat for 5 minutes, breaking up the meat into crumbles as it cooks. Pour the drippings out of the pan and discard. Add the garlic, jalapeno, and red pepper and cook 5 minutes more, stirring occasionally. Stir in the rest of the ingredients, reduce heat to low, and simmer for 5 minutes more. Place a half-cup scoop of the mixture onto each bun and serve.

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Earl

This was real tasty – I didn’t even mind the beans.

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July 11, 2018 10:26 am
Johanna

We used black beans to bulk it up and the kids didn’t seem to mind.

★★★★★

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June 15, 2018 7:46 pm
patrex

Really a clever and tasty way to add more beans into the diet.

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October 14, 2016 1:32 am
KitchenDreaming

Thanks, Patrex. With 3 cups a week, it’s a full-time job!

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October 15, 2016 5:32 am
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MAKING THIS TONIGHT

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June 18, 2016 4:30 am
KitchenDreaming

Enjoy! My family like this a lot.

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June 27, 2016 10:15 am
Felicitas

sounds like a great way to make this healthier

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June 10, 2016 8:10 pm
helen frith

Bulking them up with beans is a great idea.

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June 7, 2016 3:57 am
KitchenDreaming

We really like it. You can crush them up some if you don;t care for the texture with them whole or need to hide them in the sauce.

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June 9, 2016 4:23 pm
Adriena

I’m always looking for healthier versions on classics. The addition of beans to bulk it up in fiber is brilliant!

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May 15, 2016 10:11 am
KitchenDreaming

That was our reasoning, too. New guidelines suggest we should each be eating 3 cups of beans a week! That’s a lot of beans!

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May 22, 2016 9:01 am

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