Bubba's Sloppy Joes

Ingredients

• 2 tablespoons apple cider vinegar 
• 2 cups barbeque sauce sweet (such as Baby Ray's®)
• 0.3 cup brown sugar 
• 3 tablespoons butter 
• 0.3 cup cilantro leaves fresh chopped
• 6 cloves garlic minced
• 0.5 teaspoon garlic powder 
• 1 large bell pepper green chopped
• 2 pounds ground beef 
• 2 pinches ground nutmeg to taste
• 0.5 teaspoon ground pepper black
• 12  hamburger buns 
• 1 teaspoon penzey's southwest seasoning italian
• 1 cup catsup 
• 0.5 teaspoon smokehouse maple seasoning to taste mccormick® grill mates® (such as )
• 1 teaspoon onion powder 
• 0.3 teaspoon hickory salt smoked to taste mccormick® (such as )
• 0.5 teaspoon hamburger seasoning to taste mccormick® grill mates® (such as )
• 0.8 teaspoon greek seasoning to taste (such as Cavender's®)
• 1 large onion sweet chopped vidalia® (such as )
• 1 tablespoon worcestershire sauce 
• 2 tablespoons mustard yellow prepared (such as Colman's®)

Equipment

• frying pan

Directions

1. Melt butter in a skillet over medium heat. Cook and stir garlic in hot butter until fragrant, 1 to 2 minutes. Stir onion, green pepper, and cilantro into garlic; cook and stir until the onion is softened, 5 to 10 minutes.
2. Cook and stir ground beef in a large skillet over medium heat until browned, 5 to 10 minutes; drain fat. Increase heat to medium-high. Stir brown sugar, mustard, Worcestershire sauce, Italian seasoning, onion powder, Greek seasoning, hamburger seasoning, garlic powder, black pepper, smokehouse maple seasoning, smoked salt, and nutmeg into ground beef mixture; cook until boiling, 4 to 6 minutes.
3. Stir onion mixture into beef mixture; reduce heat to simmer.
4. Pour barbeque sauce, ketchup, and apple cider vinegar into beef mixture; stir, cover, and simmer until sauce is thickened, 30 minutes. Scoop beef into hamburger buns and serve.