This copycat manwich sauce recipe is ready to add to browned ground beef in 5 minutes! A simple homemade dinner ready in 10 minutes made from ingredients already in your cupboard!
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Why Choose This Recipe
- From scratch is better than from a can!
- Freezes well!
- Doubles or Triples well!
- Ready in 5 minutes!
- Sloppy Joes go great with all kinds of Salads!
Ingredient Notes
- Barbecue Sauce - use whatever brand is your favorite!
Step by Step Instructions
- Measure out and add the tomato sauce, ketchup and barbecue sauce to a blender cup (I love my bullet blender for this), or food processor.
- Add the onion powder, garlic powder, salt, chili powder, ground mustard and celery seeds.
- Put the blender lid or food processor top on and blend very well.
- Your sauce in now ready to mix into 2 lbs. of browned ground beef to make sloppy joes!
Recipe FAQs and Expert Tips
Yes, please do! Unless there truly is a minuscule amount of grease from browning the beef you're going to want to drain it. Excess grease thins the sauce and doesn't add to the flavor in a good way.
This recipe makes enough sauce for 2 lbs. of ground beef.
Yes! You can double or triple this recipe and freeze it! If your family is smaller you can divide the sauce in half. Use one half for 1 lb. ground beef and freeze the other half of the sauce for another time!
If you're looking for more than chips and pickle spears check out this Tangy Broccoli Salad or this make ahead Layered Green Salad!
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Barbecue Sloppy Joes
- Prep Time: 5 minutes
- Total Time: 5 minutes
- Yield: 2 Cups Sauce 1x
- Category: Sandwich
- Method: Pan Frying
- Cuisine: American
Description
This copycat manwich sauce recipe is ready to add to browned ground beef in 5 minutes! A simple homemade dinner ready in 10 minutes made from ingredients already in your cupboard!
Ingredients
- 1 (8 oz) can Tomato Sauce
- ⅔ cup Barbeque Sauce of your choice
- ⅓ cup Ketchup
- 1 tsp Onion Powder
- ½ tsp Garlic Powder
- ½ tsp Salt
- ¼ tsp Celery Seeds
- ½ tsp Chili Powder
- 1 tsp Ground Mustard
Instructions
- In a blender or food processor combine all the ingredients.
- Blend or process well.
- Mix into 2 lbs. of browned ground beef.
- Serve on buns!
Notes
- This sauce freezes extremely well. Double or triple the recipe, divide into whatever portions you plan to use it in and freeze in freezer safe containers. Thaw in the fridge or microwave.
Keywords: homemade sloppy joe recipe, manwich sauce recipe, best barbecue sandwich
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Amanda
Okay, had to come back and leave an updated comment. We LOVE this sauce. We use it for many things other than just sloppy joe's. We love it on our BBQ chicken pizza and also for dipping chicken strips in. I like to mix it with a little mayo when I eat it with chicken strips. So, so good!
Mindee
Wow! That's so awesome! I haven't tried it as a dipping sauce but now I have to!!!
Amanda
Going to try this soon. I used to like the BBQ manwich too. I had been thinking maybe I had imagined that they ever really had a BBQ one. Good to know I'm not crazy!
G. T.
Love that the sauce freezes so well!
★★★★★