Baked sloppy joes is an easy family dinner recipe that you can make up and know everyone is going to love. The sloppy joes made with refrigerated biscuits brings a new and tasty twist on the classic ground beef recipe.
Did I also mention that using the biscuits can make this normally super messy dinner a little less messy? When you use the biscuits, they tend to absorb a little bit of the liquid from the beef mixture.
Why is that ideal? Well, with the biscuit taking some of the liquid, more of the meat actually stays on the biscuit, but you don’t lose any of the flavor since you are eating the biscuit too. Talk about a win win!
If you want to add sides with this meal, try making our Baked Seasoned Steak Fries, Ranch Pasta Salad, and 5 Minute Jello Salad are all great choices!
Ingredients Needed For Our Baked Sloppy Joes Recipe:
- Ground beef
- Onion, diced
- Manwich sloppy joe sauce
- Pillsbury grands buttermilk biscuits
- Shredded mozzarella cheese
Equipment Needed
For this recipe, you only need a few simple kitchen tools. We recommend using the following equipment:
How To Make Our Baked Sloppy Joes
- Preheat your oven to 350℉.
- Brown your ground beef and onions in a frying pan. When it is cooked through, add your Manwich sauce and stir until it is all heated through.
- Flatten out your biscuits and add 2 spoonfuls of your meat mixture to one side of the biscuit.
- Add some cheese to the top of the meat mixture then fold the biscuit and pinch it closed.
- Place them on a cookie sheet and bake for 15 minutes or until golden brown on top.
Homemade Biscuits
If you would prefer to use homemade biscuits for this recipe you are more than welcome too and they will turn out delicious.
While making homemade biscuits is not necessarily hard, you need to follow the directions very well in order to get a delicious flaky biscuit. For a great recipe to use, check out Sugar Spun Run’s homemade biscuit recipe.
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Baked Sloppy Joes Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 pound ground beef
- 1 onion, diced
- 16 ounces Manwich Sloppy Joe sauce
- 16.3 ounces Pillsbury Grands Buttermilk Biscuits
- 1 ½ cups shredded Mozzarella cheese
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 350℉.
- Brown your ground beef and onions in a frying pan. When it is cooked through, add your Manwich sauce and stir until it is all heated through.
- Flatten out your biscuits and add 2 spoonfuls of your meat mixture to one side of the biscuit.
- Add some cheese to the top of the meat mixture then fold the biscuit and pinch it closed.
- Place them on a cookie sheet and bake for 15 minutes or until golden brown on top.
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These look delicious, easy, and much less messy than traditional sloppy joes! Thank you for the idea!
Reminds me of the not so sloppy joe commercial! I actually thought about making those after I saw that because they looked delicious haha and I love sloppy joes! Thanks for sharing 🙂
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I looove sloppy joes!! I’ve been wanting to make some for a while now – thanks for the recipe!!
These sound delicious… And I think my hubby will enjoy as well!!
Great idea!!!
As a mom of two young boys, I can really appreciate a meal that doesn’t make a mess. I’m going to have to try it soon – thanks for sharing!
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Love this recipe! Plan to make again with pizza fillings. I prefer the biscuits to the crescent rolls as I have made other recipes with different fillings using crescent rolls. This is a great idea, thanks for posting. My new favorite recipe!
Made these with Sausage, egg and cheese!! Yummy!
This looks easy & tasty – perfect for a weeknight! I wonder though, do you maybe have an ideal for a healthier alternative to the biscuit for the outside pocket?
This is great…making it as I read
These came out so amazing!
But instead of grands I used Jr. grands. 10 count package of them. 2 packages.
I placed ten flattened down on a cookie sheet. Topped with the meat and cheese. And then placed another buiscuit flatened on top of that one, and then pinched the sides together so it came out like a buiscuit bun. 🙂
Amazing recipe that me and my boyfriend loved and will be making again.
Awesome idea, but these (as well as any sloppy joe or sloppy joe variation) are SO MUCH BETTER with homemade sloppy joe sauce, not Manwich in a can (yuck, too many artificial ingredients, preservatives, and chemicals!!) Homemade sloppy joe sauce is surprisingly easy to make, too. Trust – you’ll thank me later! =)
Made this and hubby really liked it. He said “you gotta keep this recipe”.
Made these for the second time tonight! They are so delicious and pretty fast to make. It is SO much easier for my 4 1/2 yr old and 17 month old to eat sloppy joes this way too! Thank you so much for sharing this great idea!
Made these tonight. I had way more sloppy joe mixture than I did biscuits, so I like what Rosey said in a previous comment about using 2 cans (wish I would have read that earlier). Other than that, this is a great recipe! We added sliced black olives and used shredded Colby jack cheese, instead of mozzarella. Delicious! Thanks!
Just made this for me and my girlfriend and they were excellent! Also they’re really filling. We couldnt even finish em
Hi! Thanks for sharing. Great site! I used kraft bbq sauce instead of Manwhich. My kids don’t like the chunks of stuff in the manwhich. Luv it!
Ugh, huge fail! I don’t think I flattened the biscuits out enough, I made a huge sloppy joe mess!
I just made these tonight and used one can of big biscuits. it only made 4 pockets with leftover turkey. i did buy two cans so I can make more though. Is there a secret to keeping the edges together? They cooked nicely, but when I pick them up, They slide apart. I would love to have my little kids (3 and 1) try to feed themselves, but this wouldn’t work for them. Hopefully I can make it work someway and make them teeny size for little hands too. Thanks for the recipes…very out of the box!