Meatless Sloppy Joes

Name: Meatless Sloppy Joes
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 4 servings
Ingredients: 2 tsp olive oil; ½ onion, chopped; ½ green bell pepper, chopped; ⅓ cup shredded carrot; 1 can of chili beans, undrained; 1 ½ cups cooked brown rice; ¼ cup hickory-smoked barbecue sauce, or to your preference; Hamburger buns

This recipe is a great choice for a Meatless Monday that still lets you convince the kids that it's a Sloppy Joe! You can serve the finished product on whole-wheat hamburger buns.

30 min · serves 4

Ingredients

2 tsp olive oil
½ onion, chopped
½ green bell pepper, chopped
⅓ cup shredded carrot
1 can of chili beans, undrained
1 ½ cups cooked brown rice
¼ cup hickory-smoked barbecue sauce, or to your preference
Hamburger buns

Steps

Add olive oil to pan over medium-high heat.
Add onions, bell pepper, and carrots and cook for 3–4 minutes
Add rice, chili beans, and barbecue sauce and cook for approximately 10–15 minutes, stirring frequently to heat thoroughly.
Serve on hamburger buns.

More recipes with onion, bell pepper, carrots, chile peppers, rice, barbecue sauce or ground beef

Adapted from “Meatless Sloppy Joes” in the Wikibooks Cookbook by its contributors, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Reformatted for this site; this page's recipe text is shared under the same license.