Nothing artificial, no refined sugars and a quick, no oven required meal for any weeknight! Can't beat this Classic Sloppy Joe recipe that gets a little healthy make over! It's made in under 30 minutes and it's a meal even the picky eaters will love.
Linked below is the easy recipes for my healthier homemade and refined sugar free ketchup and barbecue sauce. If you don't have time to make those you could buy them online or find a refined sugar free version at your local health food store like Whole Foods.
The healthy gluten free bun you see pictured is from the brand Udi's. I've also found a grain free roll I love by Against the Grain which I shared about in this post. Or skip the bun altogether and top the mixture on lettuce and call it a salad!
Healthier Sloppy Joes
Healthier Sloppy Joes {Refined Sugar Free}
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 cup onion chopped
- 2 celery stalks chopped (about ⅓ cup)
- 2 cloves garlic minced
- 1 ¼ pounds lean ground turkey
- 1 teaspoon chili powder
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon ground mustard
- ½ teaspoon paprika
- ½ cup water
- 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
- ½ cup Homemade Ketchup
- ¼ cup Homemade Barbecue Sauce or check out this one at iherb.com, use my code to get off your first order: YAJ035
- 1 tablespoon quick-cooking oats
- 6 whole grain or gluten free buns
Instructions
- In a large saute pan, heat the oil on medium high heat.
- Saute the garlic, onion and celery until vegetables are softened.
- Add the turkey, chili powder, salt, mustard, paprika and cook until turkey is no longer pink.
- Pour in the water, Worcestershire sauce, ketchup and barbecue sauce and bring to a boil.
- Lower heat, cover and simmer for 15 minutes.
- Uncover and stir in the oats.
- Continue to stir until mixture thickens to desired consistency.
- If it's too saucy cook longer, if it's not saucy enough add a few tablespoons of water.
Notes
Nutrition
About Brenda
Brenda Bennett is a certified Nutritional Therapy Practitioner, certified Sugar Detox Coach, certified Keto Coach and certified Life Coach. She has been Sugar Free & Refined carb free for 17 years and has written 2 cookbooks, Sugar-Free Mom, and Naturally Keto and her 3rd book The 30-Day Sugar Elimination Diet, is a four part program to help you detox from sugar, eliminate cravings, balance blood sugar and lose weight all while eating a delicious, nutrient dense whole foods. Meal plan offers two tracks to follow, low carb or keto. She is the founder of the Sugar Free Fresh Start course and Sugar Free Tribe weight loss membership. Learn more.
Chuck
Dear Brenda, Your nutrition math just doesn't add up! It states that the serving size is 1g yet the total fat is 13g! You must be a magician to come up with that! Apparently no one noticed that in 5 years!
Chuck
Brenda
Dear Chuck, My recipe plug in had an update and a glitch happened which caused all the serving sizes to convert to 1 gram. I am having to manually fix them all, and that is over 600 recipes. Regardless the serving amount is 6 servings with 1.25 pounds of meat and the onion etc which would be around 3.5-4 ounces per serving.