Deep Fried, Oven Fried, or Air Fried French Fries plated with Sloppys Meat & Sauce Slopped on top. With Cheese to make for some seriously delicious Sloppy Fries. It’s made up in no time at all, for a quick weeknight meal anytime of the week.
Sloppy Fries Ingredients
Sloppy Meat Mixture (Ground Beef, Onion, Bell Pepper, Garlic, Carrot, Celery, Sea Salt), Sloppy Sauce (Water, Tomato Paste, Pimento Paste, Beef Bouillon, Smoked Paprika, Lemon Juice, Chickpea Flour, Ketchup, Yellow Mustard, Chili Powder, Black Pepper), and Fries. Optionally with Cheese or Cheese Curds for Poutine Style.
Sloppys Meat Mixture
Sloppys is just my Homemade version of Sloppy Joe’s with my own twist on flavors. Used for numerous recipes, including here for Sloppy Fries. The meat mixture itself is browned ground Beef, with Onions, Garlic and other vegetables added in, such as Peppers, Carrots, Celery.
Sloppys Sauce
The Sloppys Sauce is the magic that brings it all together. Add all the ingredients for the Sloppys Sauce to a bowl and then add to the pan after browning the ground beef and softening the vegetables. That’s all there is it too it really. Just cook up the fries and make the sloppy meat & sauce mix. Making this a Quick Week night meal any day of the week.
Fries
Typically, you want to deep-fry the fries until really crisp. However, Oven Fries or Air Fryer Fries can be used here too and even Hash Browns. Another benefit from using the oven or air fryer for the fries is that beef tallow can be used as the fat for crisping the fries and adding more flavor.
Sloppy Fries Poutine
For a poutine version, just add some room temp shredded or torn Cheese. For this, I find the Old Fort White Cheddar Cheese exceptional. You can opt to stay with the original cheese used for Canadian Poutine, with Cheese Curds too.
Sloppy Meals
It’s a pretty simple dish and really good. Just make the Sloppys mixture and Deep Fry some French Fries. Slop on the Sloppys Meat & Sauce Mixture and Sprinkle on some Cheese. This can be served itself as a meal or alongside Sloppy Dogs or Sloppy Sandwiches.
You can reserve 1-2 Tbl of Sloppys per Hot Dog for Sloppy Dogs, as a snack later on or to serve on the side with a smaller portion of Sloppy Fries. You can do the same for Sloppy Sandwiches.
Hot Sloppy Fries
Hot Sloppy Fries: There are all kinds of ways to add heat, use the below as a guideline;
- Mild: Use Hot Pimento Paste instead of Sweet, and/or up the Black Pepper to the desired level.
- Medium: Add Cayenne to increase the heat from mild.
- Hot: Include Sriracha and/or increase the Cayenne Pepper.
- Spicy: Include crushed Chilies de Arbol or Red Thai Chilies.
Equipment
- 1 Skillet
- 1 Bowl
- 1 Whisk
- 1 Deep Fryer
Ingredients
- 1 lb French Fries
- As Desired Shredded Cheese
Sloppy Meat & Vegetables
- 1 lb Ground Beef
- 1 each Onion, Bell Pepper, Carrot, and Celery
- 3 Cloves Garlic
- 1 tsp Sea Salt
Sloppy Sauce
- 1 C Water
- 1/4 C Tomato Paste
- 2 Tbl Sweet Pimento Paste - or Hot for a bit of heat
- 1 Cube Beef Bouillon
- 1/2 Tbl Smoked Paprika, Lemon Juice, and Chickpea Flour - each
- 1/2 C Ketchup
- 1 Tbl Prepared Yellow Mustard
- 1 tsp Chili Powder
- 1/4 tsp Black Pepper
Instructions
- Preheat the Fryer to 350F — 375F.
- Sloppy Meat & Sauce: Combine all the Sloppy Sauce ingredients together in a bowl and set aside. Heat a pan up over medium high heat and brown the meat with 1 tsp salt.Add the Vegetables to cook for a minute or so, until softened. Then add the Sloppy Sauce and continue to cook until it's thickened over medium or medium low heat. About 10 minutes. Add more water if needed to keep it Saucy. Keep warm over low heat.
- Fries: Deep Fry the French Fries for about 8 minutes. Lift the Fries out of the Oil to allow it to come back to temp. Deep-fry a second time until there is no more steam coming from the Fries, and they are crispy and browned.
- Serving: Plate the Fries and slop on a ladle of Sloppys Meat Sauce. Top with Cheese and serve.
Notes
- Mild: Use Hot Pimento Paste instead of Sweet, and/or up the Black Pepper to the desired level.
- Medium: Add Cayenne to increase the heat from mild.
- Hot: Include Sriracha and/or increase the Cayenne Pepper.
- Spicy: Include crushed Chilies de Arbol or Red Thai Chilies.