Sloppy Joe Quesadillas
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Sloppy Joe Quesadillas are hearty, meaty, cheesy, and a family favorite meal. This recipe turns your favorite childhood sandwich into a quick and easy Tex-Mex treat!
Sloppy Joe Quesadillas
This makes a delicious and hearty meal. It’s economical, everyone loves it, and it easily customizable. Try serving it over hotdogs, tortilla chips, and over corn chips.
Sloppy Joe Quesadillas Ingredients
The ingredients are short and simple for this recipe.
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- 16 ounces of Hunt’s Manwich sauce or homemade Sloppy Joe sauce recipe below in the recipe card.
- Ground beef. I like to use a lean ground been, but the higher the fat content the more flavorful it will be so choose accordingly. You can also use ground turkey or ground chicken.
- 6-inch tortillas. You can use gluten-free if desired.
- Muenster cheese. You can substitute cheddar, Colby, Pepper Jack, Monterrey, or any other good melting cheese.
- Oil. A good nuetral flavored oil.
- You can also add bell peppers and/or onions if you want.
Make it spicy
Is you like a little heat, you can add ground cayenne pepper, red pepper flakes, minced jalapeno, or my Sweet Heat Pickled Jalapenos. How much you add will depend on how spicy you want it. Start with a pinch and taste.
Brown the hamburger meat
Heat a 10-12-inch cast iron skillet to medium-high heat. Add the meat to the pan and break into large pieces with a wooden spoon. Let it cook for several minutes.
Next, break the beef up tinto smaller pieces as it cooks. Stir occasionally until meat is cooked and no pink remains. Drain if desired.
Use the cook beef immediately, refrigerate for up to 7 days, or freeze for 1 month.
Meal Prep
You can cook the hamburger meat and sauce in advance and refrigerate or freeze it until you’re ready to cook. Thaw it in the microwave and then make the quesadillas. This makes getting a meal on the table super fast and easy!
My boys enjoy quesadillas for snack. They especially like Shrimp quesadillas, bbq pulled pork quesadillas, and chorizo shrimp quesadillas. You may enjoy enjoy watching this quesadilla video!
I updated this post from an earlier version dated August 13, 2013. I made new photos and simplified the recipe instructions.
Sloppy Joe Quesadillas
Ingredients
- 16 ounces *Hunt's Manwich sauce any flavor, I used Bold
- 1 and ⅓ pounds lean ground beef
- 8 6-inch flour tortillas
- 4 ounces muenster cheese grated
- 1 tablespoon oil
Instructions
Making homemade sloppy joe sauce
- If you don't have canned sauce you can make it homemade. Mix ⅛ cup brown sugar (light or dark), ⅛ cup mustard, and ½ cup ketchup. Brown and drain the hamburger meat. Add the brown sugar, mustard, and ketchup to the meat and stir. Simmer for 5 minutes. Continue with step 2 below.
Using Manwich sauce
- Cook hamburger meat and drain. Add Manwich sauce and bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer for 5 minutes.
- Heat a skillet or saute' pan to medium. Add oil. When the oil gets hot add one flour tortilla.
- Top tortilla with meat and sauce then top with cheese and another tortilla.
- Cook for 3 to 4 minutes until the tortilla is brown. Flip and brown the other side.
- Repeat with other tortillas, sauce, and cheese. Cut into wedges and serve hot.
Nutrition
Nutritional information given is an automatic calculation and can vary based on the exact products you use and changes you make to the recipe. If these numbers are important to you, I recommend calculating them yourself.
why did you try it then? You should not leave a bad review on my recipe if you didn’t like it to begin with
Some people complain about everything. It is their toxic outlook in life. Your recipes found delicious, so I’m on my way to the store this morning to buy all 3 flavors of Manwich sauce! I’m so looking forward to it! Thank you!
Thank you, Judy!
These look so fabulous that we featured them this week on Wonderful Food Wednesday – stop by and see your feature! We hope you’ll come back and link up more delicious food this week 🙂 Thank you for participating and sharing your recipe.
It’s so funny that I found this recipe from the Saturday Show Stopper! My husband has been asking me to make manwich for years. Want to laugh? I thought the meat was in the can and that grossed me out so I never made it. I recently told him why I hadn’t made it and he laughed at me..for obvious reasons. Okay, I’m ready to try this so thank you so much for sharing. Pinning and making this. 🙂
lol, we never ate them growing up, I think I did in college. My mom was a from scratch person so she wouldn’t have bought it. Yes, meat in the can would not be good! 🙂 I really, really like the Bold and the Thick and Chunky flavors and the dip is out of this world!
Oh miss Paula. Your dip and quesadillas sound super yummy. I can’t wait to bust out my sauces and make them!
I love dips, I should be ashamed to admit I ate this for dinner!! (but I’m not!)
One other way I’ve used the Original Manwich that we really liked was to drain a couple of cans of water-packed tuna to mix with it. Then layer with a slice of sharp cheddar and a pineapple ring on the bun. We called it The Big Kahuna! That smoky tangy flavor is surprisingly good with the lightness of the tuna…
That’s a great idea, Kathy!
I just found your blog through Homework Wednesday and I am now your newest follower on bloglovin. I haven’t had Manwich in a very…… long time and I am not a fan of ground beef but while I was reading it I thought it would probably be good on Chicken. I love the quesadillas and the dip idea. Fabulous! I hope you might stop by my blog sometime and http://homeandlifestyledesign.com
Thanks, Patty at Home and Lifestyle Design
I had not either and really enjoyed them, esp the quesadilla and dip! I’m not much a burger person either. I’m trying it with ground turkey next time.
Not sure when you did it, but I love the new look of your page.
I grew up on Manwich, well, in my teens. Always loved it. A quick easy meal that even the teens can do.
I didn’t remember liking it so much, but it’s really good, especially the dip!