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PIZZA JOES RECIPE

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whole family will want to sink their teeth into!

It’s a beefy, saucy, cheesy filling sandwiched between buttery buns and topped with extra mozzarella, pepperoni, and green bell pepper. It’s simply the best!

All it takes is to brown the meat and toss it into the crockpot with the rest of the ingredients to cook low and slow. Then just before serving, you’ll add the mozzarella to melt and dinner is served.

You’ll love how customizable it is too. Just like pizza, you can pick and choose what toppings you add to the meat mixture. Make it lighter by using ground turkey or add some spice with red pepper flakes. You can also set out some extra toppings for people to pick and choose how to dress theirs up. Whatever you do, make sure to make lots of filling. Serve some, freeze some, and then put the rest in the fridge for leftovers throughout the week!

INGREDIENTS/SHOPPING LIST

Below is a list of the ingredients you’ll need to gather to make this recipe. Scroll down to the full recipe card with amounts

ingredients for pizza sloppy joes - italian sausage, ground beef, green bell pepper, diced onion, spaghetti sauce, minced garlic, mozzarella cheese, brioche buns and pepperoni.
  • Two kinds of meat – I use extra lean ground beef, 90% or higher combined with Italian sausage. I love this combination of flavorful meat without a ton of the excess grease.
  • Veggies and aromatics – Diced onion, green pepper, and minced garlic cook down and become tender and caramelized and super flavorful.
  • Spaghetti sauce – Use your favorite spaghetti sauce or tomato sauce, whether homemade or picked up from the grocery store.
  • Pepperoni – The same kind you’d find on a pepperoni pizza! If you want to use mini pepperoni, that would be fun too.
  • Buns – Toasting them are what holds all of that yummy beef mixture in these sloppy joe pizza burgers. Brioche buns, slider buns, or regular hamburger buns will do.
  • Mozzarella cheese –  Traditionally found on pizza, slices of mozzarella cheese melted on top drive home the fact that this is not your average sloppy joe!  You can also use shredded mozzarella if you’d like.

VARIATIONS/ SUBSTITUTIONS

This is such an easy recipe to customize to your liking!

1. Use ground turkey or ground chicken in place of the ground beef.
2. You can also use turkey sausage instead of Italian sausage.
3. For some heat, not only can you add red pepper flakes to

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