Tuesday's Tip: Tex-Mex Sloppy Joes/Tasty Ideas for Adding Variety to Sloppy Joes

Logan loves Sloppy Joes and would eat them everyday!
I have tried to come up with a few ways to use this meat mixture that will offer a bit of variety.

Here are couple of ways to serve Sloppy Joes that I have previously shared:

Traditional Sloppy Joes on a Bun

Sloppy Joe Pizza

Here are a few other ideas:

Use Sloppy Joe meat as a topping for baked potatoes. Sprinkle with cheese, chopped green onions and a dollop of sour cream.

Use Sloppy Joe meat as a topping for nacho. Spoon meat over tortilla chips, sprinkle with shredded cheese and zap in the microwave for a few seconds.

Spoon Sloppy Joe meat onto a tortilla, sprinkle with shredded cheese, add a dollop of sour cream, and roll up.

Spoon Sloppy Joe meat into a taco shell. Serve with lettuce, chopped tomatoes, shredded cheese and sour cream.

Add an 8-ounce can of tomato sauce to Sloppy Joe meat and ladle over hot pasta. Serve with French bread and a salad.

Get creative with your Sloppy Joe recipe. Here is a Tex-Mex version that our family really likes. It can also be used with the ideas above:

Tex-Mex Sloppy Joes

Tex-Mex Sloppy Joes

1 - 1½ pounds lean ground beef

½ - 1 cup bottled salsa

1 cup ketchup

½ cup bottled barbecue sauce

1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce

frozen garlic Texas toast (or make your own)

1 cup shredded Mexican blend cheese

Garnish:

sour cream

pickled jalapeño peppers

Sauté ground beef in a large skillet until done; drain well.

Return meat to skillet and add salsa, ketchup, barbeque sauce and Worcestershire sauce.

Simmer for 10 minutes.

While meat mixture simmers, prepare Texas toast according to package directions.
Serve beef mixture over toast; sprinkle with cheese.

Serve with sour cream and pickled jalapeño peppers.

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