Reviewed: Oct. 7, 2010

The best Sloppy Joes I have ever made! I will finely chop the celery and onion when I take them to work for those who hate vegetables and they will never know! Thank you Jill! A keeper for sure.

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Gma Vicki

Reviewed: Aug. 1, 2010

My family loved this recipe. They were tired of my old recipe and all raved over this. I have to say the only change I made was to reduce the celery by about half and finely chop it because my kids would not like to bite into pieces of celery. It would be a huge turnoff if they knew there were veggies in it!!! Otherwise followed recipe as written and they are still asking for the leftovers even though they have finished it! Will definately add this to my recipe box.

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Maureen

Cooking Level: Expert

Home Town: Somerville, New Jersey, USA

Living In: Downingtown, Pennsylvania, USA

Reviewed: May 23, 2010

Rating my own spin due to following: I started with a different recipe but felt it was blah. So, I already used 1 8oz can tomato sauce (garlic flavor) & approx 1/2 cup ketchup. I had the minced celery & onion & everthing else (no water) in the sauce but the cumin/paprika/chili powder. I had to scale this to 4 servings as I had 1 lb of grnd turkey thawed. So, I added the cumin & paprika but cut way down on the chili powder cuz mine is super strong. I did simmer everything but the meat in a pot for about an hour...refrigerated that overnight, then added browned grnd turkey the next day and let that simmer till thick. The only item I added (not on the list) was a tsp of poupon style mustard & needed a little more brn sugar due to using tomato sauce. End results were super delish but next time I think I'll add 1/4 C finely diced grn pepper as I was missing that flavor. I didn't make this exactly as written but close enough for me! The cumin/paprika/chili powder made this a much better Joe. : )

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CantHelpMyself

Cooking Level: Intermediate

Reviewed: Mar. 20, 2010

Good

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Karen

Reviewed: Jun. 2, 2009

Good recipe, though I like mine better (my recipe makes way too much for one family dinner and I can't really lessen it easily). For a different texture try using shredded beef instead. I had some Venison roast left-over from Sunday dinner, shredded it and used that instead of ground meat. It saved on cook time too as I didn't have to thaw, then brown any burger.

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SheRa

Cooking Level: Intermediate

Home Town: Rexburg, Idaho, USA

Reviewed: Apr. 16, 2009

These are great. Very tangy with some zip and a little spice. I scaled this down to 1 lb. of beef and used dried minced onion (1 small handful, about 2 T) and half cumin powder half cumin seeds and tossed a pinch of celery seed in too. I let this simmer for an hour since it was for hubby's lunch and that's how much time I had. This was a really great sandwich. I served this on toasted buns. We liked this and would definitely fix this again although it didn't make our favorites, it's still a winner.

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~TxCin~ILove2Ck

Cooking Level: Intermediate

Home Town: Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA

Living In: Corpus Christi, Texas, USA

Reviewed: Jan. 28, 2009

This was very tasty! The only thing i did different, was use tomato juice instead of ketchup. I had some left over tomato juice that needed to use up. Because ketchup is a lot sweeter and thicker, I just double the brown sugar(or sweeten to your taste), then thickened it with some corn starch. It worked out great!! Thanks for the recipe!

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penny

Reviewed: Dec. 14, 2008

When I was a kid I loved Manwich sloppy Joes. As an adult not so much. This is a great recipe which blows Manwich's away. Like I said; I am no longer fond of that stuff you get in a can & neither is my wife but both of us as well as my son really liked it. I do not know who Jill is so for the recipe file on my computer I re-named it Sloppy Joe Montana's. A little humor PLUS good food, what else does someone need?

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Jimmy McPhink

Cooking Level: Beginning

Home Town: Jonesboro, Arkansas, USA

Living In: Paragould, Arkansas, USA

Reviewed: Nov. 18, 2008

This was a spicy sloppy joe, good, but not the taste I remember from church suppers of the mid 60's. I will keep looking.

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Joyousblue

Cooking Level: Expert

Home Town: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Living In: Anchorage, Alaska, USA

Reviewed: Aug. 4, 2008

Delicious! A finicky 13 yr old biy picked this Sloppy Joe recipe for me, likely because it had NO green peppers. I thought the amount of celery would taste/look weird but it didn't. It was a great addition,the celery retains a crunch but was there mostly as texture as the flavor is either masked with the spice mix or gone because of cooking time. I made the celery into dice so that it would resemble the same chop of the onion, figuring that is better looking than half moons. I also sauteed, onion and celery and garlic first in a little olive oil (I like my onion wilted) and browned inexpensive frozen ground turley (comes in a frozen roll)on top of that. I did not drain since it was turkey and just omitted the water. YUM! and thank you!

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