Sloppy Joes Casserole
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If you want those delicious sloppy joe flavors without the extra carbs, you need this rib-sticking, family-pleasing sloppy joes casserole recipe in your life.
I’m not lying when I say this sloppy joe casserole recipe is a family favorite. It’s definitely become one of my favorite casseroles because it’s so easy to make and so delicious. Plus, it has all the flavors of your normal sloppy joes but without the bread to keep the carbs lower than usual, and what the heck, it’s fun to try something different.
This casserole requires minimal prep, which is why I love to whip it together on a busy weeknight. Once you brown the ground beef (I have cooked beef stored in my freezer for moments like this), you just combine it with the Manwich sloppy joe sauce and french fried onions and place them in the casserole dish with lots of gooey cheese goodness. Then you simply need to whisk together flour, milk, and eggs and pour that over the casserole to make that scrumptious topping. In under an hour, your casserole will be ready to pull out of the oven and serve to your hungry family.
It’s a hearty, filling, and scrumptious comfort food dish I just love and I hope you do too! When you’re in the mood to make normal sloppy joes, check out my easy slow cooker recipe.
Recipe Ingredients
- All-purpose flour
- Milk
- Eggs
- Shredded cheddar cheese
- Cooked ground beef
- Vegetable oil
- Sloppy joe sauce, either store-bought or homemade (if you want to make your own sloppy joe sauce check out the ingredients I use to make it HERE).
- French fried onions
- Salt
How to Make Sloppy Joes Casserole
Cook your ground beef, then stir your sloppy joe sauce and fried onions into the meat until it’s well coated.
Spray a 9×13 baking dish with cooking spray.
Add a layer of shredded cheese.
Spread the meat mixture over the top of the cheese.
Top with the remaining cheese.
Place eggs, milk, flour, salt, and oil in a bowl.
So all you have to do is stir these ingredients together with a spoon until it’s well blended. It just takes a minute.
Pour over the top of the beef mixture and cheese.
Bake this at 350 for 30 minutes or until it is just a wee bit brown on top.
Like this! Time to serve it up.
This is great when served with green beans and iced tea (of course)!
Storage
Store casserole leftovers in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 4 days. You can also freeze leftovers for up to 3 months. Thaw overnight in the fridge before reheating in the microwave.
Recipe Notes
- I only use Manwich when it comes to buying pre-made sloppy joe sauce. I normally like generics but find generic sloppy joe sauce to be really bad.
- Want to bulk up your casserole with vegetables? Before you cook your lean ground beef, quickly saute your vegetables, like 1 diced onion, 1 diced green bell pepper, a cup of grated carrot, and a can of corn kernels (or a cup of frozen corn).
- If you’re not watching your carbs, you can mix a cup of cooked penne or farfalle pasta with the meat before spreading it in your casserole dish.
- Instead of ground beef, try pork sausage or ground turkey.
- If your family doesn’t mind a little heat, add a 1/4 teaspoon of crushed red pepper flakes to your meat mixture.
Recipe FAQs
Can I make this sloppy joes casserole ahead of time?
Yes, you can make this casserole recipe in advance. It will last up to 4 days in the fridge. Alternatively, partly assemble the casserole and then top with the flour mixture before baking.
What do you serve with sloppy joes casserole?
This casserole is a main dish, but I recommend serving it with a side of vegetables. This might be a green bean casserole, some grilled asparagus, coleslaw, or a simple salad.
Check out these other tasty casserole recipes:
Taco Tater Tot Casserole Recipe
Stuffed Pepper Casserole Recipe (Easy and Delicious)
Ingredients
Note: This recipe can be made using half of the beef and sloppy joe sauce but still with the same amount of crust and in a 9x13 pan with no loss of deliciousness.
- 1-2 pounds ground beef cooked and drained
- 1-2 cans sloppy joe sauce
- 1 cup french fried onions
- 2 cups shredded cheddar cheese mild, sharp, whatever you like
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 cup milk
- 2 eggs
- 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
Instructions
- In a large bowl, stir together the ground beef, sloppy joe sauce, and french fried onions until well blended.1-2 pounds ground beef, 1-2 cans sloppy joe sauce, 1 cup french fried onions
- Spray the bottom of a 9x13 pan with cooking spray. Sprinkle half of the cheese on the bottom and top with the meat mixture, spreading to the sides. Top meat mixture with the remaining cheese.2 cups shredded cheddar cheese
- In a medium bowl, combine the flour, milk, oil, eggs, and salt. Stir until well blended. Pour over the top of the sloppy joe mixture and cheese in the casserole dish.1 cup all-purpose flour, 1 cup milk, 2 eggs, 1 tablespoon vegetable oil, 1/2 teaspoon salt
- Bake at 350 for about 30 minutes, or until the crust is set and very lightly browned.
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Are all three playing videos? Do you remember the product they are advertising? I bet it’s the same one and I can just ban that ad.
Thanks for all of your help! I’ve gone in and disallowed some ads and completely changed the coding on all of them. Hopefully this will help but it will take a bit to go into effect.
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Hey Christy,
Video ads are still playing (maybe not as bad?). They are in the locations listed by Joan.
Thanks for your help!
Sometimes it takes a few hours for caches to clear and everything to reset. I’ve sent an email to one ad network as well to get them stopped. It may take a day or two but I’m on it 😉 even then, one may happen from time to time but hopefully on a rare rather than regular basis. Thanks for your understanding!
I hate video ads @,@
Christy, if they have an add-on called adblockerplus, it blocks ads. I have had it for a couple years (with Firefox being my browser) and I don’t see ads anymore.
Thanks for letting me know 🙂 I’m afraid if everyone started doing that it would be the end of Southern plate though :). Ads are how I pay for my server and subscriber services and keep them free for everyone else. It used to be about the same as my mortgage each month to operate the site but as traffic has increased cost has increased as well and it is now more than three times my mortgage. As long as it doesn’t go into the negative too many months (it usually does in the summer), I’ll keep it up 🙂
Adblocker plus can be adjusted to receive ads you want from sites that you routinely visit. I can understand and appreciate that it is necessary for you to use ads for revenue to keep this free wonderful site going or it would be necessary for you to go to a fee-for-subscription route but I think there is a problem with spammers who add their own unwanted ads to the legitimate ones you and other bloggers have.
It is all the video ads on the right hand side the same thing happens to me but I tough it out. I can click on the mute or pause button and soon as the the ad changes you have to scroll back up and do it all again. At times there will the sounds of 2 ads at a time playing I guess they are playing battle of the ads.
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Christy,
i keep my sound off- turn it on when i want to, but default for me is off. for all that you share i am more than willing to delete a few ads. i do understand that we want to keep the lights on<g
Thank you Carol!
Another great recipe. I remember when I was little a neighbor’s last child had moved out of the nest and they gave my parents a whole set of encyclopedia Britannica. I will never forget how in awe I was of the pictures and stories. It was so amazing to have such a gift. As for the computer I got my first computer when my daughter was 1 (now 18) as I was determined she was going to learn how to use that thing. So I taught myself how to use it, then worked with her at the age of 1 by holding my hand over hers on the mouse. Today she can out do momma any day but at least I can use the thing. The first one was so big and bulky and took up lots of desk room. As for tv well I’m still old school we use an antennae. It saves big bucks and there’s not too much time for tv plus it gives my daughter and I more together time as we don’t have to rush to see a favorite cable show.
Try using crescent rolls layer bottom with crescent roll add sloppy joe mix and the cheese add another layer of crescent. I use a deep dish pie plate.
Oh dear-I am feeling old as I can remember getting our first TV in the early 50’s. I came home from school and there is was in the living room. It was, of course, black and white, and it was a Sears Silvertone. The first show we watched was Howdy Doody! It went off at supper much to our dismay , but that was always the house rule and was with my own family as well. TV signed off overnight back then I think that evening news was 15 minutes.
I used to have my mother’s Howdy Doody doll. Played with that thing my whole childhood! I still know the theme song!
Elaine,
I bought a Sears Silvertone console tv a few years ago at a garage sale, for $4.00. It still works. I had to find adapters for the antenna connections to hook up to the digital box. But it still comes on in good old black & white. I actually got it to use as a small buffet in my dining room. Works great for that too.
Christy,
This is another good post & recipe. Keep up the good work.
You just made my day! I remember before TV – we had a radio and on Sunday night we would listen to our favorite “shows”. Thank you for the memories!
Who knew that the internet was going to grow so fast, I would have never believed it either!!
Young people today have so many useful tools…amazing!! Cool pic. of the ingredients smiling…. that’s is so awesome! Looks yummy…..I’m definitely going to make this for my grandchildren!
You have really inspired me to get a dehydrator. I was wondering if you think chicken or pork could be dried with no loss of flavor and quality. And this recipe looks great!
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I’m a pretty fruity person at times so I think plural applies to me. Lol. Fruit would be for folks who manage to display them all at once and I’m far from there! Heehee ;). I’ve seen those child craft books!!!! I would’ve killed for them back then!!!
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I texted back!!
Christy, since you have lots of clout, wish you would get in touch with Krusteaz and get them to supply the grocery stories with their 4 or 5 pound bag of pie crust mix. That is the best stuff for making not only pies but cobblers. When I was living in Oregon I could get it out there and moved back home and couldn’t find it anywhere, but now some of the stores have just a small boxes. Love that pie crust mix. They also make other things cake mix, cookies mix and now after seven years can’t remember the other things and what I did use from them was never disappointed in any of it. If you could do that it would be just a BIG thing.
Thank you so much and have one of your cook books and love the things you put out there for us.
Sam’s club carries a lot of mixes in that brand. I have not looked for pie crust there but they may have it.