Pizza Sloppy Joes

by Sabrina Snyder

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6 Servings
Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 15 minutes
Total Time 20 minutes
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Pizza Sloppy Joes with all your favorite cheesy gooey pizza flavors and a couple of vegetables your kids won’t even notice.

Pizza meets hamburger with this amazing recipe that tastes as good as a hot out of the oven melty delicious pizza! For more fun Italian flavors I also love The Best Chicken Parmesan (which we made into these Chicken Parmesan Sloppy Joes) which are also made with crazy easy Marinara Sauce.

Sabrina’s Pizza Sloppy Joes

Pizza Sloppy Joes take the classic sloppy joes up a notch with the addition of marinara sauce instead of the classic tomato paste and awesome pizza topping mix-ins. Cheesy, sloppy, pizza sloppy joe goodness! You can adjust these as you’d like, too.

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Pizza Sloppy Joes Recipe

Pizza Sloppy Joes with all your favorite cheesy gooey pizza flavors and a couple of vegetables your kids won't even notice.
Yield 6 Servings
Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 15 minutes
Total Time 20 minutes
Course Dinner
Cuisine American
Author Sabrina Snyder
Sloppy Joe in a bun on a wooden plate.
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Ingredients
 

  • 1 pound lean ground beef
  • 6 slices bacon
  • 2 tablespoons butter
  • 1 small yellow onion , diced
  • 1 red bell pepper , diced
  • 1/2 teaspoon Kosher salt
  • 1/2 teaspoon fresh ground black pepper
  • 1 cup marinara sauce
  • 1 tablespoon  cornstarch
  • 1/2 cup beef broth
  • 6  ounces mozzarella cheese , chopped
  • 6 brioche hamburger buns

Instructions

  • Add ground beef to a pan and brown until a deep crust appears on about 50 or so percent of the beef.
  • Remove the beef, drain the fat and add the bacon to the pan.
  • Add the butter, onions and bell pepper to the pan.
  • Let brown for 1-2 minutes before stirring, then let brown for another 1-2 minutes before stirring again.
  • Add the beef back into the pan.
  • In a small cup mix the salt, black pepper, marinara sauce, beef broth and cornstarch together and add it to the pan.
  • Cook until the mixture is only slightly liquidy (about 75% of the mixture is above liquid), 3-5 minutes.
  • Turn off the heat, add in the mozzarella cheese and fold into the meat with a spatula until just melted.
  • Served on toasted brioche buns.

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Nutrition

Calories: 469kcal | Carbohydrates: 29g | Protein: 28g | Fat: 26g | Saturated Fat: 12g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 2g | Monounsaturated Fat: 9g | Trans Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 92mg | Sodium: 1068mg | Potassium: 531mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 6g | Vitamin A: 1111IU | Vitamin C: 30mg | Calcium: 230mg | Iron: 4mg

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About this Recipe

Your family will enjoy these Pizza Sloppy Joes for a busy weeknight meal. You can also make a Pepperoni Pizza Hamburger Helper. The flavors of the ground beef, marinara sauce, and pizza toppings come together so well, you’ll see the kids asking for more helpings.

Chef’s Note:

Pizza Sloppy Joes had to happen. After these Philly cheesesteak sloppy joes (over 640,000 pins on Pinterest and over 20 MILLION views of the video on Facebook) I posted Bacon Cheeseburger Sloppy Joes, which are also one of the top recipes on the site. If you’re interested in more sloppy joes, you can check them all out here!

How to Store

  • Serve: The Pizza Sloppy Joe mixture can be at room temperature for up to 2 hours before it needs to be chilled.
  • Store: Place cooled sloppy Joe filling into an airtight container and refrigerator for up to 3 days.
  • Freeze: Cool completely before freezing. Store sloppy Joe filling in a sealed container and freeze for up to 3 months.

Alternate Cooking Technique

Slow Cooker

  • Add the ingredients (minus the cheese and buns) to the slow cooker and cook on low for 4 hours.
  • Use half the amount of beef broth.
  • If the sauce is not thick add in another 1 tablespoon cornstarch mixed with 1 tablespoon room temperature water. Cook for an additional 30 minutes on low.
  • Add the cheese and stir once you’re ready to serve.

More Amazing Sloppy Joe Recipes

Collage with finished sloppy Joes on a plate and in hands

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Finished cheesy sloppy joe collage
Plated sloppy Joe with title in a banner
Hands holding sloppy Joes with recip title in a banner
Sloppy Joe on a plate
Hands holding meaty sloppy Joe recipe
Plated sandwich with meat and sauce filling
Close up of meat sandwich being held

About the Author: Sabrina Snyder

Sabrina is a professionally trained Private Chef of over 10 years with ServSafe Manager certification in food safety. She creates all the recipes here on Dinner, then Dessert, fueled in no small part by her love for bacon.

Sabrina Snyder is a professionally trained personal and private chef of over 10 years who is the creator and developer of all the recipes on Dinner, then Dessert.

She is also the author of the cookbook Dinner, then Dessert – Satisfying Meals Using Only 3, 5 or 7 Ingredients, published by Harper Collins.

She started Dinner, then Dessert as a business in her office as a lunch service for her coworkers who admired her lunches before going to culinary school and becoming a full time personal chef and private chef.

As a personal chef Sabrina would cook for families one day a week and cook their entire week of dinners. All grocery shopping, cooking and cleaning was done along with instructions on reheating. As a private chef she cooked for private parties and cooked in family homes in the evenings for families on a nightly basis after working as a personal chef during the day.

Sabrina has been certified as a ServSafe Manager since 2007 and was a longstanding member of the USPCA Personal Chef Association including being on the board of the Washington DC Chapter of Chefs in the US Personal Chef Association when they won Chapter of the year.

As a member of the community of food website creators Sabrina Snyder has spoken at many conferences regarding her experiences as a food writer including the Indulge Food Conference, Everything Food Conference, Haven Food Conference and IACP Annual Food Professionals Conference.

Sabrina lives with her family in sunny California.

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  1. Ooh, I just had a thought about the lasagna sloppy joes and had to come back! When I toast the buns, I think I’ll use garlic butter, so it’s like eating it between slices of garlic bread.

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    1. It looks like my initial comment didn’t make it through.
      I asked how much pepperoni is used for these pizza sloppy joes, and if it is fried briefly in place of the bacon, or when it is added.

      I am thinking of trying this version as lasagna sloppy joes, using half Italian sausage and half ground beef, omitting the bacon, pepperoni, and red pepper, spaghetti sauce instead of marinara, and adding cottage cheese. I am torn between adding the cottage cheese with the mozzarella, or if it should be a topping added when building the sandwich. Any opinions?

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  7. I love the cheesy goodness in these sandwiches! I was craving sloppy joes the other night! They look really good!

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