Name: Low Carb Sloppy Joes
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 35 min
Total time: 45 min
Ingredients: 2 whole bell peppers; 1 whole jalapeño; 1/2 medium sweet onion; 3 cloves garlic; 5 tbsp tomato paste ((could sub ketchup) ); 1 tbsp kosher salt; 1 tbsp smoked paprika; 1/2 tbsp chili powder; 1 tsp oregano; 1 tsp onion powder; 1 tsp garlic powder; 1 tsp ground black pepper; 1/8 tsp cayenne pepper; 2.5 lbs ground beef, 85% lean; 1/2 cup brown sugar Swerve ((or brown sugar substitute of choice) ); 3 tbsp apple cider vinegar; 2 tbsp dijon mustard; 2 tbsp Worcestershire sauce; 2 tbsp sriracha chili sauce; 2 tsp hickory liquid smoke; Serving vessel ideas: with Sola Company hamburger buns are the best. Use our code 10BRIANA for 10% off + free shipping! You could also serve on a salad, stuff bell peppers with them, serve with vegetables, cheese, pork rinds, pickles, or anything!

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These Low Carb Sloppy Joes are just as good as you remember them being as kid, without all the unnecessary sugar. This version is sweet, spicy and smokey, and we think you will love the flavor! This easy to make ground beef dinner is a family favorite, reinvented to be keto friendly. Serve this awesome sloppy joe mixture with low carb burger buns, over salad, or really in any way you prefer.

Here’s What You Need For These Low Carb Sloppy Joes:

Bell peppers
Jalapeño
Sweet onion
Fresh garlic
Tomato paste or ketchup
Pink Himalayan salt
Smoked paprika
Chili powder
Oregano
Onion powder
Garlic powder
Ground black pepper
Cayenne pepper
Ground beef, 85% lean
Brown sugar Swerve or brown sugar substitute
Apple cider vinegar
Dijon mustard
Worcestershire sauce
Sriracha chili sauce
Hickory liquid smoke
Serving vessel ideas: with Sola Company hamburger buns are the best. Use our code 10BRIANA for 10% off + free shipping! You could also serve on a salad, stuff bell peppers with them, serve with vegetables, cheese, pork rinds, pickles, or anything! P.s., we don’t earn off the code, it’s just for you guys.

sloppy joe mix with buns pickles and cheese

Recipe Notes:

This recipe was inspired by my mom’s recipe, but we made it spicier!

Seasoning: Everything is sort of to taste in this recipe, and we love things a little spicy. Start with adding a small amount, or just omitting the optional ingredients if you like things less spicy. The optional spicy ingredients in this recipe are the jalapeño, cayenne pepper, and sriracha chili sauce. We like a lot of spice in our food, and we realize others may not be quite as enthusiastic about it as we are.

For the brown sugar substitute, start by adding 1/2 cup then giving it a taste, and add more to your preference. You of course could use regular sugar if you aren’t low carb, just note that this will affect the nutrition information.

We added hickory liquid smoke to our sloppy joes for an unbeatable smokey flavor, but it is of course optional.

Peppers: For the bell peppers, use whatever you want. We used a mixture of red and green bell peppers because that’s what we had on hand. Jalapeños are totally optional in this recipe, and we added them for spice.

Serve With: If you’re on a keto diet like we follow most of the time, we love to dip things like veggies, pork rinds, low carb crackers and spread on low carb bread for sandwiches. We imagine this would also make an amazing topping for a burger! We’ve linked some of our favorite ready made snacks in our Amazon store if you’re looking for ideas!

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low carb sloppy joes on a plate with cheese in a bun with cheddar cheese

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Let’s Make These Low Carb Sloppy Joes:

Bring your ground beef out of the fridge while prepping your ingredients. Dice up your bell peppers, onions and jalapeños really well. Mince your garlic really fine. Heat up your dutch oven over medium heat, then add some of the butter.

Now, add in your peppers, onions and jalapeños with a pinch of salt, cooking until soft, about 3-5 minutes. After the vegetables have softened, add in your garlic, and your dry seasonings and toast for about 1 minute. You don’t want the garlic to burn.

fresh garlic added to onions and bell peppers

adding seasonings to a dutch oven with onions and peppers

Now, add in your tomato paste, cooking until the color deepens, about 2-4 minutes. Add in the rest of your butter, then add your ground beef, with a big pinch of salt. Cook until the meat is browned.

adding tomato paste to a dutch oven with peppers

Add in your brown sugar substitute, along with your sriracha, mustard, Worcestershire sauce, apple cider vinegar, and liquid smoke seasoning. Combine, then allow to for the mixture to simmer for at least 20 minutes. It can simmer as long as you like for a well developed flavor. After the mixture has been simmering for 20 minutes, give it a taste and adjust the seasonings.

cooked ground beef with red bell peppers and a wooden spoon

Now, just eat and enjoy! We love using the Sola Company hamburger buns, they are amazing. You can get 10% off and free shipping on their website using our code ’10BRIANA’. We add a slice of cheese sometimes. Alternatively, you could enjoy these as lettuce wraps, on a salad, with pork rinds, and much more. If you’re in the Chicagoland area, we also eat them with egglife foods original egg white wraps. Is there really a wrong way to eat sloppy joes?? We don’t think so!

sloppy joe mixture in a cast iron dutch oven

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sloppy joe mixture in a white bowl with buns pickles and cheese

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Until Next Time,
Briana & Chamere