These Keto Sloppy Joes will become your new favorite keto sandwich filler because they taste just like your mom’s Manwich burgers did but without all those carbs. Sheer take-you-back comfort food they’ll remind you of childhood and lazing away your days to old 70s shows.
If you’re trying to eat keto, you might be missing your condiments and tomato-based sauces a bit. After all, they’re such a beloved necessity in so many dishes that feel like home from pizza to spaghetti sauce and ketchup, right?
And ketchup is that go-to essential for so many beloved American comfort foods from sloppy joes to meatloaf. But ketchup is such a keto “no-no” not so much because of its tomato content but because it’s loaded with added and hidden sugars and all kinds of other unhealthy chemicals (watch those labels).
You’re much more likely to stick with an eating lifestyle if you can have the foods you love, right? So, the solution is to tweak your sauces and get no-sugar variety ketchups and use these as the basis of your culinary creations. The secret to creating keto comfort foods that get the flavor just right, so you don’t have to feel deprived is to use high-quality keto sweeteners and other low-carb add-ins that help you create copycat recipes that really work. There’s a long list of these keto recipe-tweakers from liquid aminos to keto sweeteners that can help you mimic beloved flavors and not feel deprived on keto.
Why Comfort Food Is Important to Any Diet
Everyone has taste memories that are very dear to them. In fact, there are foods I eat just for these sense memories. For me, two of these are Chef Boyardee’s Spaghetti and Meatballs and Little Debbie Swiss Roll Cakes. I don’t care what they tell me that’s in them, eating these foods brings back a world of childhood memories that are healing and worth it, like eating sloppy joes while watching the Lucy Show with my mother and laughing like hyenas.
Sloppy joes are one of those quick fixes parents still count on that were also popular in our youths. So for adults trying to stick to a keto diet, the flavor of them is so important. We want that take-me-back to five or six and cartoons kind of flavor, like Manwich sauce. Just looking at the can makes me think of being five again, right? So, what we want, then, is the taste of our mother’s Manwich without all of the unhealthiness that’s in that can. This recipe gets that just golden.
How to Make Ahead and Store?
Keto Sloppy Joes can be refrigerated up to 4 days in an airtight container and frozen up to 2 months, whether you use a keto sweetener or not will not impact the quality of your frozen sloppy joes.
Serving Suggestions
Keto Sloppy Joes taste just wonderful with a wide variety of keto sides that help you get your protein and fat ratios just right, like this Low Carb Chicken Fajita Soup this Keto Bacon Wrapped Brats with Beer Cheese Sauce, or this Keto Meatballs A La Parmigiana. If your sweet tooth needs some satiating try my practically 0 carb keto cookies like these delicious Keto Chocolate Chip Vanilla Pudding Cookies or these Keto No Bake Haystack Cookies. They’re both, quick, delicious and will keep you on track.
Keto Sloppy Joe Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 pound lean ground beef
- 1/2 medium onion diced
- 1/2 green bell pepper diced
- 2 cloves garlic minced
- 3/4 cup no-sugar-added ketchup
- 1 tablespoon granulated erythritol or other keto-friendly sweetener
- 1 tablespoon yellow mustard
- 1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar
- 1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
- 1/2 teaspoon sea salt
- 1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper
Instructions
- In a large skillet over medium heat, cook the ground beef, onion, and bell pepper until the beef is browned and the vegetables are softened, about 8-10 minutes.
- Add the minced garlic to the skillet and cook for an additional minute until fragrant.
- Drain any excess fat from the skillet.
- Stir in the no-sugar-added ketchup, sweetener, mustard, apple cider vinegar, Worcestershire sauce, salt, and pepper.
- Reduce heat to low and simmer the mixture for 10 minutes, allowing the flavors to meld together.
- Serve the keto sloppy joe mixture on low-carb buns or over a bed of lettuce for a bun-less option.
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