bubba's sloppy joes

Ingredients

• Servings: 12
• 3 tablespoons butter
• 6 cloves garlic, minced
• 1 large sweet onion (such as vidalia®), chopped
• 1 large green bell pepper, chopped
• 1/4 cup chopped fresh cilantro
• 2 pounds ground beef
• 1/4 cup brown sugar
• 2 tablespoons prepared yellow mustard (such as colman's®)
• 1 tablespoon worcestershire sauce
• 1 teaspoon italian seasoning
• 1 teaspoon onion powder
• 3/4 teaspoon greek seasoning (such as cavender's®), or more to taste
• 1/2 teaspoon hamburger seasoning (such as mccormick® grill mates®), or more to taste
• 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
• 1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper
• 1/2 teaspoon smokehouse maple seasoning (such as mccormick® grill mates®), or more to taste
• 1/4 teaspoon hickory smoked salt (such as mccormick®), or more to taste
• 2 pinches ground nutmeg, or more to taste
• 2 cups barbeque sauce (such as sweet baby ray's®)
• 1 cup ketchup
• 2 tablespoons apple vinegar
• 12 hamburger buns

Recipe

Preparation Time: 45 mins Cook Time: 50 mins Ready Time: 1 hr 35 mins


• melt butter in a skillet over medium heat. cook and stir garlic in hot butter until fragrant, 1 to 2 minutes. stir onion, green pepper, and cilantro into garlic; cook and stir until the onion is softened, 5 to 10 minutes.
• cook and stir ground beef in a large skillet over medium heat until browned, 5 to 10 minutes; drain fat. increase heat to medium-high. stir brown sugar, mustard, worcestershire sauce, italian seasoning, onion powder, greek seasoning, hamburger seasoning, garlic powder, black pepper, smokehouse maple seasoning, smoked salt, and nutmeg into ground beef mixture; cook until boiling, 4 to 6 minutes.
• stir onion mixture into beef mixture; reduce heat to simmer.
• pour barbeque sauce, ketchup, and apple vinegar into beef mixture; stir, cover, and simmer until sauce is thickened, 30 minutes. scoop beef into hamburger buns and serve.