French Onion Hamburger Pie – A Ground Beef Crescent Pie Recipe

What can I make with ground beef and crescent rolls? Here’s a solution. Make this French Onion Hamburger Pie for a quick, thirty minute dinner. This ground beef crescent pie recipe will satisfy the hungriest of appetites.

Ground Beef Crescent Pie Recipe

Here is an easy ground beef recipe to the rescue.  Thank me later.

For all you moms out there who have kids who pretty much only eat ground beef, this recipe is especially for you. All my kids gobbled it up. They love this Beefy Onion Pie because it has a yummy crescent roll crust, ground beef filling and cheesy topping.

I love it because it only takes me ten minutes to prep it.  All I do is brown up some ground beef, pour in some soup, and then make a simple crust out of refrigerated crescent dough. Twenty minutes in the oven, and ground beef crescent pie is served.

French Onion Hamburger Pie

I always have canned condensed French Onion Soup in my pantry.  It’s a staple ingredient along with cream of mushroom soup, chicken broth, evaporated milk and elbow macaroni which I use all the time for quick meal prep.

French Onion Soup is found in the same aisle as the cream soups and tomato soup products at the grocery store.  If you’ve never tried it before, I highly recommend grabbing a couple cans. It has a punch of flavor in a small little can that is perfect for casseroles and main dishes.

I honestly use it so often that I’ve accumulated a whole section of my cook book dedicated to French Onion Soup recipes.  Find our list of recipes in this blog post dedicated to cooking with French Onion Soup.

Beef Onion Pie Ingredient List

• Ground Beef, ground and excess grease drained
• All Purpose Flour
• Water
• Condensed French Onion Soup
• Refrigerated Crescent Rolls
• Swiss Cheese (or mozzarella), shredded

How to Make Beefy Onion Pie with Ground Beef and Crescent Rolls

Step by Step Instructions

1. Preheat oven. Grease a standard 9 inch pie plate.
2. Brown ground beef in a large skillet over medium heat; drain excess grease if needed.
3. In a small bowl, mix flour and water.
4. Add flour mixture and condensed French Onion Soup to ground beef.
5. Simmer until thickened.
6. Make a pie crust out of crescent roll dough by placing points to the center of a pie pan and pinching the edges together.
7. Pour ground beef mixture into crescent roll crust.
8. Sprinkle with shredded cheese.
9. Bake for 20-25 minutes.
10. Let the crescent roll meat pie sit at room temperature for 5 – 10 minutes before cutting.

Storage Instructions

Let leftovers cool; transfer to an airtight container, and store in the fridge for up to a week.

For the full ingredient amounts and instructions for crescent roll meat pie, scroll to the recipe card at the bottom of this post.

Recipe FAQs

• Ground turkey could be substituted for ground beef, if desired.
• Substitute mozzarella cheese for Swiss, if desired.
• Shredding a block of cheese instead of buying pre-shredded cheese results in a better melt.
• This crescent beef pie holds together better if you let it sit 5 – 10 minutes before cutting.
• I love serving this with a side salad and French Onion Rice.
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What can I make with ground beef and crescent rolls?

Here are two easy options when brainstorming dinner recipes using hamburger and crescent rolls.

1. Using a pie pan, make a crust out of the crescent rolls by separating crescent dough into eight triangles and pressing them into the greased pie plate with the points to the center forming a pie crust.  Once you’ve made a crescent roll pie crust, make your own beefy pie by browning up the ground beef and seasoning it up with practically anything you have on hand including taco seasonings, onion soup, cream soup, tomato soup or canned tomatoes, etc. Top with shredded cheese, and bake for approximately 20 minutes.
2. Brown up the ground beef with any seasoning blend (taco seasoning, steak seasoning, Italian herbs, anything bagel, salt and black pepper).  Fill each individual crescent roll with seasoning hamburger and your favorite shredded cheese.  Roll up the crescent roll and bake according to package instructions for easy stuffed crescent bites.

Recipes Using Crescent Rolls

Ham and Cheese Crescent Rolls

Chicken Crescent Bake with Canned Chicken

Quick Cinnamon Rolls from Refrigerated Crescent Rolls

Save Beefy Onion Pie for Later

​Can you cook beef and onions at the same time?

Yes, I always add my diced onions directly with the raw ground beef while browning on the stove top in a skillet. Often times, I add a little water to the pan as well to steam the onions and beef before it browns.