Instant Pot Sloppy Joes Recipe
Instant Pot sloppy joes is an easy protein packed meal even your kids will love. If you're looking for pressure cooker ground beef recipes, this is #1.
Servings: 6
Equipment
Ingredients
- 1 pound ground beef or ground sausage
- 1.5 tbsp olive oil for sauteing meat
- 2 tbsp brown sugar more or less depending on desired flavor
- 3 tbsp mustard more or less depending on desired flavor
- 3/4 cup ketchup more or less depending on desired flavor
Instructions
- Put pot on saute function. Add oil and once it is hot If you want to add 1/2 cup add diced onions, bell peppers and 1 tgsp minced garlic you can start by sauteing for about 2 minutes to soften them slightly. If you don't want to add these extras you should skip to step 2.
- Add ground beef and cook until outsides are no longer pink (if there is a noticeable amount of grease in your pot, drain that off)
- Add all other ingredients in the list inside the pot to make the sauce and stir together. Taste to see if you feel like it needs to be sweeter with more sugar or have more tang with more mustard. (you can also double the sauce ingredients if you want it really wet)
- Leave on saute and allow to bubble, stirring consistently so it doesn't burn for about 3-5 minutes to deepen the flavors.
- Put on buns and serve.
Video
Notes
How to Make Spicy
If you want some heat to this you can either swap the ground beef for HOT Jimmy dean ground sausage or add 1/4-1/2 tsp of red pepper flakes or dry Sriracha into the sauce.Nutrition
Serving: 3oz | Calories: 265kcal | Carbohydrates: 9g | Protein: 14g | Fat: 19g | Saturated Fat: 6g | Cholesterol: 54mg | Sodium: 795mg | Potassium: 531mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 7g | Vitamin A: 960IU | Vitamin C: 32mg | Calcium: 29mg | Iron: 2mg