A fun classic style meal in our household, sloppy joes and corn fritters. Could you get more county than that? Slapped on a open face slice of bread, oh we just love it. And this recipe is a twist on the old package stuff that I promise you will never ever use again. One thing I love about this meal is I almost always have the ingredients on hand, and to me that is a huge plus in my cooking world. The sweet, tangy filling sloppy joes go great with the crispy fried sweet corn fritters it will send you straight back to 1985, you know the hey day of sloppy joes.
Start off by chopping the onion and bell pepper, take the bell pepper and cut around the stem
Pull the stem out and cut bell down the middle, remove with white membrane and seeds
Julienne and then dice
Add ground meat, onions and bell peppers to hot skillet to brown and soften
Then add 1 tsp salt, and 2 T brown sugar
1 T vinegar(any vinegar you like, I used red wine) and 2 T prepared mustard
Then add 3/4 cup Ketchup and stir well
Cover and simmer on low for about 30 minutes
While the sloppy joes are simmering start on the corn fritters:
Ingredients: 1 can corn or frozen, 3-4 green onions, 1 egg, 1/2 cup plus 2 tbsp. flour, 1/2 tsp baking power, 1/2 tsp salt and 1 egg white beaten stiff.
Drain canned corn, or you can use frozen thawed corn
Add green onions, and corn to food processor and chop, I like to leave a little bit of chunkiness
In a mixing bowl add flour, baking powder and salt
In mixer add 1 egg white, and mix until stiff
Pour corn mixture into larger mixing bowl, add 1 egg
Stir until combined and then slowly add flour mixture in
Lastly fold in stiff egg white
In a large skillet pour oil till covers bottom and turn heat to high, you can tell when the oil is hot when you test with a little flour and it immediately sizzles
Drop 1 spoonful of corn mixture into skillet until bottom browns about 2-3 minutes
Then flip and brown again for a couple of minutes and set aside on paper towel to drain
Then enjoy your piping hot fritters and sloppy joes!!
Print This RecipeSloppy Joes
1lb ground beef
1 green pepper, chopped
1 onion, chopped
3/4 cup ketchup
2 tablespoons prepared mustard
1 tablespoon vinegar
2 tablespoons brown sugar
1 tsp saltIn a skillet brown the beef, pepper and onion until juices run clear; drain fat. Combine and add to skillet the remaining ingredients. Cover and simmer for 30 minutes.
Corn Fritters
1 canwhole kernel canned corn (chopped and drained)
1 egg
1/2 cup plus 2 tbsp. flour,
1/2 tsp baking power,
1/2 tsp salt.
1 egg white beaten stiff.Add one egg to the drained corn. Mix together the dry ingredients, then stir it into corn mixture. Lastly, fold one egg white beaten until stiff into the mixture.
Drop from a tablespoon into oil heated to 370 degrees. Cook until lightly browned. Drain on paper towel.
Looks good! My kids love sloppy joes .. I usually just get the stuff in a can .. I had no idea they were so easy to make!
I could eat one of those corn fritters right now! 🙂
oh oh – i may not have hit submit…checking to see if it needs to be approved. 🙂
3rd try, it’s not posting – Can you believe I have never made Corn Fritters? Yum – you’re right, I have almost all of those things as well.
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I had no idea these were so easy!! Thanks for sharing!!
Great recipes!!! I am going to add the corn fritters to my recipe book! Thanks for sharing!
Yum! I totally want to make all of this tonight. I’ve never had corn fritters. mmmmmm.
THis looks fabulous and something my family would probably devour! Thanks for posting! 😀
have a great day!
Sherry
Yum – this all looks fabulous! I love sloppy joes, thanks for a from-scratch recipe.
This meal looks so good, I love country cooking. I am trying
this very soon, my family will love it,thanks so very much for sharing !
Oh my, corn fritters! Mmmmmm!
My boys love Sloppy Joes, but we’ve never had corn fritters. But, hey, we love corn.
Ginger
yum thanks for the great instructions…
Your pictures are really good! I like that, the corn fritters look good too.
I’m always excited to see what you will have next! Great, creative way of doing a conventional item!
I love homemade sloppy joes! My mom always canned sloppy joe sauce when I was a kid, I had no idea it even came in canned mix form until I was an adult *L* Those corn fritters look fab, I’ve never made those before.
I’m gonna have to try your sloppy joes. Normally I just make it from the can, but the kids always complain. I bet they’d enjoy something home made. LOOKS GREAT!
Yum…and yum! We make sloppy joes a lot around here; it’s my husband’s favorite. And I think we would love these fritters!
I’ve never made corn fritters, just corn bread. I’ll have to try those because they look very, very yummy!
Thanks for stopping by my blog and commenting on the Creamsicle Cupcakes! The Sloppy Joes look great, I needed a good recipe for them. Thanks for sharing!
~Liz
I had no idea that’s what corn fritters were….they look really good!! I’m so lazy with sloppy joes…I always just buy the packaged seasoning, ground beef and tomato paste and call it a meal. My kids actually really like sloppy joes so I should probably try to make them healthier!!
I got my veggie garden re-planted. I just went ahead and planted seeds, figuring I’ll start from scratch. I’m praying the seeds germinate in the next few days!
Looks like a tasty meal. I am hunget right now too! LOL
Looks like a tasty meal. I am hungey right now too! LOL
I would love to have some corn fritters tonight! I love those things!
LOVE corn fritters!!
Nummy!!!
Yum! Those corn fritters look fantastic! I’ve never attempted to make them before. You always do such a great job of having pictures of every step of the process… really helps show how the meal comes together! 🙂
Hmm…I’ve never made sloppy joes from scratch. Will have to try. And I bet my kiddos would love the corn fritters.
Looks yummy! We make something very similar to this but call is “scrambled hamburgers” 🙂