Vegetarian Worcestershire sauce is available in most health food stores or even Trader Joe's or Whole Foods. If you can't find it there you can make your own -- just do a search for Vegetarian Worcestershire Sauce online.
This is YUMMO! I made this with red lentils to speed up cooking time and I cooked the lentils with the sauce ingredients. After cooking the onions and garlic I added a can of chopped tomatoes with mexican seasonings (to replace the 2 cups tomato...the can is 14 oz) and the lentils. Then I added about 2 cups of water and the rest of the ingredients. I let it simmer for about 15 minutes and it was great! The lentils still had a bit of "bite" but had a great sloppy joe taste. Even my husband a confirmed meat eater had seconds!
My husband loved these but I am not a huge fan of lentils. Good alternative if you don't want meat- thanks!
Very Good! Even my husband approved! I used brown sugar instead of molasses. Excellent meat free recipe!
Incredibly delicious. To make it a bit easier I used 1-15 oz. can of Eden organic lentils (with sweet onion & bay leaf) drained as well as 1-15oz. can of Muir Glen fire roasted diced tomatoes (drained). So very very very yummy! I also used 2 TBS brown sugar instead of the molasses. Thank you so much for a great recipe!
Thanks Marian for the wonderful recipe!The combo of ingredients rsults in a very flavorful sauce. I substitued low sodium soy sauce for the worchestershire. In the past I have purchased "store brand" worchestershire sauce and it did NOT contain anchovies:) since I'm allergic to all seafood.
Just to inform people that you can buy vegeterian worcestershire sauce that omits the anchovies.
I'm giving this 5 stars because it's a healthier alternative to real Sloppy Joes it tastes just like a Sloppy Joe it's cheaper than a real Sloppy Joe and you want to keep eating more and more just like you would with a Sloppy Joe. Kudos to the chef.
While I liked these freshly made I really loved these the next day! I used a can of diced garlic and onion flavored tomatoes (undrained) in place of fresh. I added about a T. of regular mustard and brown sugar in the end. It was way too sweet the first day but tasted fine the next day. So next time I would not add any sugar and I may try some vinegar to see what that does to the flavor too.
Tasted pretty much like baked beans on a bun to me. If that sounds good to you - go for it!
