Bacon Cheeseburger Sloppy Joes
Servings: 6 sandwiches
Move over Manwich! This Bacon Cheeseburger Sloppy Joes recipe will have you making the Best Homemade Sloppy Joes - fast.
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Ingredients
Beef & Sauce
- 2 pounds Ground Beef (80/20)
- 1 small Onion, finely chopped
- 1/2 cup Ketchup
- 1 tbsp Yellow Mustard
- 1 tbsp Worcestershire Sauce
- 1 tsp Liquid Smoke
- 4 slices Processed American Cheese, roughly chopped
BACON!
- 8 slices Bacon
- 1 tbsp Brown Sugar
- Coarsely Chopped Black Pepper
Construction
- 6 slices Pepper Jack Cheese
- 6 Soft Burger Buns
- Pickled sweet hot peppers
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
- Sprinkle kosher salt in bottom off large skillet. Heat over medium high heat. Crumble ground beef into skillet, breaking it up with a spoon as it cooks.
- Strain fat once beef is brown if necessary. Add diced onion, 1 cup water, ketchup, mustard, Worcestershire sauce and liquid smoke. Stir well and continue cooking for 10 minutes or so.
- Meanwhile, put bacon on baking sheet. Pepper bacon and sprinkle brown sugar over all. Place on bottom rack in oven and allow to cook until brown and crispy, about 8 minutes. Remove to paper towel covered plate to drain.
- When sauce has cooked down in beef mixture, add the processed cheese and stir well.
- Grill buns if desired before plating. Add generous scoop of meat mixture, a slice of pepper jack cheese and the pickled peppers to the bottom bun. Top with sugared bacon then bun top.