Instant Pot Sloppy Joes

Below we’re sharing our recipe and tips for Easy Instant Pot Sloppy Joes.

Is anyone else in need of easy meals for back to school and activity nights? We are! On busy nights we find ourselves cooking a lot of easy prep meals. Often times we’ll even batch prep meals on the weekend so that meals are even easier during the week.

One of our current favorite easy meals is sloppy joes made in our Instant Pot.

Sloppy Joes is the perfect meal when no one has any energy to figure out a complicated meal. It’s perfect for nights when you are busy with sports practice or music lessons (or nights when you just want a break).

Reasons to love Instant Pot Sloppy Joes

• It’s popular
• It works well for serving a crowd (or if you just want leftovers)
• It freezes, travels, and reheats well (been there, done that)
• the recipe is easily adaptable

Using Ground Beef Instead of Ground Turkey

For this Instant Pot Sloppy Joe’s recipe, we used ground turkey (I have the alpha-gal meat allergy), but ground beef would work just as well. The only additional thing you might have to do is drain off any extra fat/liquid produced while cooking the beef before adding the spices and other ingredients.

All in all, this recipe is super easy. Chop up a few of your favorite vegetables, add some of your favorite spices, take advantage of your Instant Pot’s saute mode to get things started (or saute on the stovetop) and then close things up and let a final Instant Pot cycle finish things off.

The resulting Instant Pot Sloppy Joes is a meal that is likely to please your whole family.

Side Dishes for Sloppy Joes

It goes well with a number of sides. We have a 2nd Instant Pot so sometimes we’ll pair it with our Instant Pot Potato Salad, but here are some other great side dishes you might want to try with sloppy joes:

• Hands-off Garlic Fingerling Potatoes
• Roasted Sweet Potato Cubes
• Farmers Market Salad

You can also just vary how you serve your sloppy joes. The traditional way is to serve it as a sandwich of some sort, but we also love serving sloppy joes on top of a sweet potato.

Freezing and reheating Sloppy Joes

We love making large batches of sloppy joes so that we get a few meals out of it. It also freezes and reheats well if you have leftovers you don’t get to or if you just want to stock your freezer with easy meals. I’ve even frozen batches and taken them on vacation week; it makes for a really easy meal that everyone likes.

A few tips freezing tips:

• Allow it to cool down before freezing. You don’t want freezer items around it to partially thaw and then refreeze
• label bag/container with a date so you know when it was frozen. We’ve read you can freeze it for up to 6 months, but we tend to try to use up things like this with a few months
• You can reheat in the microwave, but we prefer to reheat on the stovetop over low heat. Give it some, cover the pot to trap in the heat. Stir and break apart occasionally.

So, if you are looking for an easy meal, try making Sloppy Joes in your Instant Pot and let us know what you think? Are there any extra ingredients you like adding when you make sloppy joes?