Turkey Sloppy Joes

First you’ll be preparing the vegetables. Grate the onion, grate the carrot (or dice), dice the red pepper, chop the garlic and mince up the mushrooms.

Heat olive oil over medium heat, add in the grated onion, carrots, peppers and garlic for about 3-5 minutes.

While these are cooking up its a perfect time to make the sauce by mixing up ketchup, tomato sauce, Worcestershire, vinegar, sugar, mustard, beef bouillon powder, BBQ sauce, salt and lots of pepper.

When onions/carrots/peppers are ready, add in the mushrooms and cook down till the moisture is gone. Add in the ground turkey meat and start by breaking up the meat into chunks and start slowly adding the vegetables into the meat. When the meat is browned, but not fully cooked, add in the sauce.

Let sauce simmer with the meat and let it bubble. Mix it up and serve. If adding the shredded cheese, add it on top and place a lid on the pan to allow the cheese to melt. I recommend shredding the cheese thinner than I did, it’ll melt better. If you’re a doofus like me, go ahead and make little marks in the cheese beef mixture with the spatula, like I had to do.

Ingredients

• 1 small grated yellow/white onion

• 1 medium carrot, shredded or chopped (You will chop the carrot if you want crunchy carrot pieces in the mix)

• 1 red bell pepper, finely chopped

• 4 gloves garlic, minced

• 8oz baby bella mushrooms, finely chopped

• 1 tablespoon olive oil

• 1 pound lean ground turkey

  Sauce mixture

• 1/2 cup ketchup

• 1 8oz can tomato sauce

• 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce

• 1 tablespoon red wine vinegar

• 1 tablespoon light brown sugar

• 1 teaspoon yellow mustard

• 1 tablespoon beef bouillon powder

• 1/3 cup BBQ sauce

• salt and fresh ground pepper (lots more pepper than salt)

• Finely shredded cheddar cheese (optional)

** The more fine you chop the vegetables, like the carrot (grated fine), peppers, mushrooms (you’re already grating the onion).. the better you can hide them from the kids!