Sausage and Peppers 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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Sausage and Peppers Sloppy Joes is a bold, comforting spin on the classic messy sandwich piled high on a warm roll and ready in minutes!

It’s time for another sloppy joe recipe in this Sloppy Joe series, and today we’re combining Ultimate Sloppy Joes with your favorite food-truck-style sausage and peppers! If you enjoy this recipe, try more fun variations like Pizza Sloppy Joes!

Sabrina’s Sausage and Peppers Sloppy Joes Recipe

This savory, spicy sausage is simmered in a sauce with brown sugar, spices, peppers, and onions. This recipe is a huge fan with kids, and client reviews have included one saying, “We’re huge fans of these, my youngest wants to know if we could have them again the next night!”

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Sausage and Peppers Sloppy Joes Recipe

Sausage and Peppers Sloppy Joes is a bold, comforting spin on the classic messy sandwich piled high on a warm roll and ready in minutes!
Yield 6 servings
Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 15 minutes
Total Time 20 minutes
Course Dinner
Cuisine American
Author Sabrina Snyder
Sausage and Peppers Sloppy Joes
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Ingredients
 

  • 2 tablespoons olive oil
  • 1 1/2 pounds ground pork
  • 1 tablespoon fennel seeds
  • 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
  • 1/4 teaspoon coarse ground black pepper
  • 2 garlic cloves , minced
  • 1 yellow onion , diced
  • 1 red bell pepper , diced
  • 1 green bell pepper , diced
  • 2 cups tomato puree
  • 2 tablespoons brown sugar
  • 2 tablespoons apple cider vinegar
  • 1 cup chicken stock
  • 6 brioche buns
  • 6 slices Provolone cheese
  • 1/4 teaspoon crushed red chili flakes , optional

Instructions

  • In a large heavy bottomed skiller on medium-high heat add olive oil, ground pork fennel seeds, crushed red pepper, salt and black pepper, breaking it up with a potato masher as it cooks, about 5-6 minutes.
  • Add the garlic, onion and bell peppers and cook for 4-5 minutes.
  • Lower the heat to medium before adding in the tomato puree, brown sugar, cider vinegar and chicken stock, cooking until saucy and reduced (about 5-6 minutes).
  • Serve on brioche buns with slice of provolone cheese.

Nutrition

Calories: 476kcal | Carbohydrates: 37g | Protein: 37g | Fat: 19g | Saturated Fat: 7g | Cholesterol: 94mg | Sodium: 789mg | Potassium: 1067mg | Fiber: 4g | Sugar: 13g | Vitamin A: 1315IU | Vitamin C: 36.5mg | Calcium: 298mg | Iron: 5mg

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About this Recipe

This Sloppy Joe is one of my all-time favorite foods to get at local fairs, food-truck-style sausage and peppers, and mash it together into the ultimate sloppy joe experience. In fact, we love sausage sloppy joes so much that the BBQ Sausage Sloppy Joes are in our top 3 out of all of them.

Tips & Tricks

  • Make sure you cook the pork on medium-high heat until browned.
  • If you want some variety in the peppers dice half of them and slice the other half. This may take a bit longer but they’ll look great with the sliced peppers as toppings.
  • If you are sensitive to how sweet the sloppy joe sauce is, cut the brown sugar down to 1 tablespoon.
  • Don’t let the sauce reduce until dry, stop the cooking when it still looks nice and saucy.
  • Sauce will continue to reduce even after you turn off the heat.
  • You can stack the provolone cheese and cut it into cubes (like in this Stuffed Cabbage Sloppy Joes.

What to Pair With

We love serving side dishes with these sloppy joes that you’d classically serve with your favorite burgers including Crispy Sweet Potato Fries, Beer Battered Onion Rings and Loaded Garlic French Fries.

Variations

Ground Turkey

Sausage and peppers is traditionally made with seasoned pork sausage, so I used a ground pork with spices for these sloppy joes. Also, we wanted to add some variety from all of the ground beef happening in this series. If you have ground turkey on hand, that could work, too. But ground pork will give you the full experience! If using ground turkey or chicken just remember the fennel seed is super important to the “sausage flavor.”

Homemade Sausage Seasoning

If you want a more typical sausage seasoning here’s a great homemade sausage seasoning:

1 ½ teaspoons kosher salt
3  teaspoons paprika
¾ teaspoon garlic powder
½ teaspoon fennel seed
1 teaspoon coarse ground black pepper
red pepper flakes, optional

Process in a small food processor or coffee grinder for 10 seconds. Mix with 1 pound of ground pork.

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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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  6. Ohhh I love this. We’ve made something similar but it wasn’t as sloppy. Absolutely jumping over to this recipe!! Yum!

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