Easy Classic Sloppy Joe Casserole with Pasta Recipe
A quick and Easy Classic Sloppy Joe Casserole with Pasta Recipe featuring tangy homemade sloppy joe sauce using only 3 ingredients.
Ingredients
- 1/2 medium yellow onion
- 1 green bell pepper
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 1 lb ground beef
- 1/4 cup diced pickles bread & butter pickles work well
- 3/4 lb pasta (uncooked weight) cavatappi, farfalle, or rigatoni
- 1 1/2 cup shredded cheddar cheese
- salt and black pepper
Sloppy Joe Sauce
- 1 cup tomato ketchup
- 1/4 cup yellow mustard
- 2 tbsp worcestershire sauce
Instructions
- Begin by cooking the pasta according to package directions. I use 3/4 of a 1lb box of cavatappi pasta. It can cook throughout the rest of the process. Drain when ready.
- Prepare the veggies. Chop the onion. Clean the seeds and membranes out of the green bell pepper and chop. Place the vegetables in a small bowl and set aside.
- Prepare the sauce. Mix the ketchup, mustard, and Worcestershire sauce in a medium mixing bowl, stirring thoroughly with a wooden spoon.
- Chop the pickles and add them to the sloppy joe sauce. Set aside.
- Heat one tbsp of olive oil in a large skillet over medium heat.
- Add the veggies to the meat mixture and cook, stirring from time-to-time with a heat resistant spatula, until soft and the onion is translucent, about 5 minutes.
- Remove the cooked veggies. You can put them back in the small bowl.
- Increase the temperature to medium-high heat and add the ground beef. Break the meat into pieces with the spatula and stir regularly. The meat is cooked when it is no longer pink, about 8 minutes. Be sure to test larger pieces to ensure they are fully cooked. If there is excess grease in the pan, pour it off.
- Lower the temperature to medium-low heat. Add the veggies back to the skillet with the meat and stir.
- Lightly salt and pepper.
- Pour the sauce over the ground beef mixture and stir to combine.
- Add the drained pasta and toss making sure that everything is covered in sauce and the other ingredients are fairly evenly distributed.
- Sprinkle approximately 3/4 of the shredded cheese over the sloppy joes and pasta and stir to combine.
- Sprinkle the remaining cheese over the surface and cover the skillet.
- Heat until the sloppy joe mixture, pasta, and cheese are heated through and the cheese on top is melted.