Making weeknight meals should be easy and quick but also healthy. One-pan meals are super easy. Not to mention the cleanup is minimal. This week's weeknight recipe is a spin on the sloppy joe using Italian ingredients. Follow along and try our easy Italian Sloppy Joes recipe for yourself.
Some notes on this recipe. You can easily change it to ground turkey if you prefer that. If you want it spicier, add ¼ teaspoon red pepper flakes instead of ⅛ tsp.
What ingredients are in an easy Italian Sloppy Joes recipe?
1 lb of ground beef
1 red pepper chopped
1 onion chopped
2 cups of homemade tomato sauce or bought sauce with or without chunks
3 ounces tomato paste
1 tablespoon Italian herbs mix
3 garlic cloves minced
½ teaspoon salt
⅛ teaspoon red pepper flakes
A quarter teaspoon of pepper black
4 potato hamburger rolls
Optional: 4 slices of Provolone Cheese
How do you make this easy Italian Sloppy Joes Recipe?
In a large skillet, at medium-high heat, add two tablespoons of olive oil and ground beef.
Break down the meat and cook for five minutes until light brown.
Add to the meat the chopped red pepper, chopped onion, the Italian seasoning mix, the garlic. Stir to combine and cook for another 3-5 minutes or when the onions become translucent. Stir occasionally.
Add tomato sauce (try ours on our blog: 20-minute Tomato Sauce recipe) and tomato paste and the rest of the salt pepper and red pepper flakes, lower the temperature to low, and cover for 5- 10 minutes.
This image below is what it looks like after it is combined and cooked.
Add to standard-size potato rolls. If you want to add cheese, try provolone slices.
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Ingredients
- 1 lb of ground beef
- 1 red pepper chopped
- 1 onion chopped
- 2 cups of homemade tomato sauce or bought sauce with or without chunks
- 3 ounces tomato paste
- 1 tablespoon Italian herbs mix
- 3 garlic cloves minced
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ⅛ teaspoon red pepper flakes
- A quarter teaspoon of pepper black
- 4 potato hamburger rolls.
- Optional: 4 slices of Provolone
Instructions
- In a large skillet, at medium-high heat, add two tablespoons of olive oil and ground beef.
- Break down the meat and cook for five minutes until light brown.
- Add to the meat the chopped red pepper, chopped onion, the Italian seasoning mix, the garlic. Stir to combine and cook for another 3-5 minutes or when the onions become translucent. Stir occasionally.
- Add tomato sauce and tomato paste and the rest of the salt pepper and red pepper flakes, lower the temperature to low, and cover for 5- 10 minutes.
- Add to standard size potato rolls. If you want to add cheese, try provolone slices.
Notes
Feel free to try this with ground turkey if you want a lighter dish.
Doesn't it look yummy? My family really enjoyed it and it was great as leftovers too. We added more red pepper flakes so it was a bit spicier but delicious.
If you want to read more recipes, I found these recipes online from other cooks. Feel free to check them out.
Ground Turkey Italian Sloppy Joes
