These Beer Cheese Sloppy Joes take everything you love about the nostalgic recipe and level it up with a creamy, melty beer cheese sauce. Hearty and messy in all the right ways and ready in under 30 minutes. A comfort food recipe that’s perfect for weeknights or game days.
Why We Love These Beer Cheese Sloppy Joes
These Beer Cheese Sloppy Joes take classic comfort food and give it a rich, irresistible flavor. The kind of dinner recipe that is gone in minutes and gets asked for over and over again.
- Next Level Flavor: The creamy beer cheese sauce adds a bold, savory twist that makes these sloppy joes stand out from the rest.
- Fun For Parties & Game Days: Who wouldn’t love these sloppy joes while they’re watching their favorite team play? You can double or triple this recipe very easily.
- Make Ahead Recipe: You can make this recipe ahead of time and warm it up when you’re ready.
How To Make
Step by step photos here with brief directions. For complete instructions, head to the recipe card at the end of the post.
- Add diced onion and ground beef to a skillet with olive oil and cook while crumbling the beef. Drain any drippings if needed. Add tomato paste, seasonings, brown sugar, mustard, beef broth and stir. Simmer for 5 minutes to combine the flavors.
- Add 1/2 of a cup of beer cheese to the sloppy joes and mix to combine. Taste for seasonings and adjust if needed. Serve on hamburger buns or pretzel buns.
Variations
This beer cheese sloppy joe recipe is really pretty versatile, so you can switch things up to your liking or use what you have on hand. If you don’t have hamburger buns, you can use tortillas and make a wrap. Or you can spoon this sloppy joe filling into a fluffy baked potato with more shredded cheese on top.
We also love using this sloppy joe recipe as a nacho topping, or for scooping up with chips!
- Instead of ground beef: You can use ground turkey or pork, or a combination of meats like in a meatloaf mix.
- Add-ins: Try adding some vegetables like green pepper (or any color pepper) like we do in our traditional sloppy joe recipe. Give it a Tex-Mex vibe by adding some black beans and hot sauce, maybe swapping out the beer cheese for queso.
- Instead of beef broth: Try adding a cup of beer instead to keep with the beer cheese theme. Or you can use chicken broth or vegetable broth in a pinch, too.
Sides To Serve With Beer Cheese Sloppy Joes
We do love our sides! Depending on whether you’re having a party or game day, or just a fun dinner night, the sides make the meal complete.
- Steak Fries
- Crock Pot Sweet Potatoes
- Super Creamy Coleslaw
- Ranch Potato Salad
- Cowboy Beans
- Cheesy Crock Pot Potatoes
Storing and Reheating
Store any leftover sloppy joes in an air tight container in the refrigerator for up to four days. The beer cheese sauce will tighten up in the refrigerator, but don’t worry, they’ll heat up perfectly.
The microwave is best for heating these up, and only heat until just warmed through or the cheese sauce might break a little and become greasy. Still delicious either way!
Looking For More Fun Dinner Recipes?
- Juicy Beer Baked Ham
- Copycat Taco Bell Mexican Pizza
- Buffalo Chicken Wrap
- Beer Battered Cod
- Cheeseburger Bowl (also a tasty way to use this sloppy joe recipe!)
- Cornflake Chicken Tenders
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Beer Cheese Sloppy Joes
- Prep Time: 5 minutes
- Cook Time: 10 minutes
- Total Time: 15 minutes
- Yield: 6 servings 1x
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Pin RecipeBeer Cheese Sloppy Joes are the sandwich of your dreams! Made with seasoned beef and a rich cheese sauce, this comfort food recipe is perfect for weeknights, tailgates and game day parties.
Ingredients
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1/2 cup diced onion
- 1 1/2 pounds ground beef
- 1 tablespoon tomato paste
- 1 tablespoon brown sugar
- 1 1/2 teaspoons kosher salt
- 1 1/2 teaspoons garlic powder
- 1 teaspoon paprika
- Black pepper to taste (can also try a pinch of cayenne pepper or red pepper flakes for a bit of heat!)
- 2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
- 1 cup beef broth
- 3/4 cup beer cheese (plus more for serving)
- Hamburger buns for serving
Instructions
- Add the oil to a large skillet over medium heat. Add the diced onions and ground beef, breaking up the beef into crumbles as it cooks. When the beef is cooked through, drain any drippings from the pan.
- Add the tomato paste, brown sugar, salt, garlic powder, paprika, pepper, Worcestershire sauce and beef broth to the pan and stir to combine. Simmer over low heat for 5 minutes to combine the flavors.
- Add the beer cheese to the skillet and stir until melted and combined with the beef mixture. (You can make the beer cheese ahead of time if you like, even if it’s refrigerated it’ll melt into the beef very easily).
- Taste for seasonings and serve on hamburger buns.
Recipe Notes
Store: Store leftovers in an air tight container in the refrigerator for up to four days.
Reheat: Reheat leftovers in the microwave until just warmed through. If you overheat the meat, the cheese sauce can tend to break, causing it to become greasy.
- Category: Dinner
- Method: stove top
- Cuisine: American
This is mouthwatering!!!! I can’t wait to try this. Thank